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The slideshow I've posted does include a few images of nude characters, none are offensive, but I thought I should warn the community so as not to cause offense. Also some of the videos I've linked to may also contain nudity. In game when you start character customization, Body features include nudity where you can select from three different modes, no nudity, partial nudity and full nudity. The nudity sliders includes breast size and endowment. Both can be ridiculous and on the part of a male wishful thinking. The graphics are very good, so both male and female bodies look pretty convincing. None of the images I've included in the review below contain nudity, but the slideshow does have a few that I thought were tastefully done.

Conan Exiles

In Brief

An open-world survival game set in the brutal lands of Conan the Barbarian! Survive in a hostile world, build your kingdom, and dominate your enemies in both single and multiplayer!

You are an exile, outcast and downtrodden, sentenced to walk in a barbaric wasteland where the weak are crushed and only the strong can live. Here you must fight to survive, build, and dominate the world alone on your own server, or with enemies and allies in online multiplayer.

If you don't win a key, don't mind playing games via Steam or miss the offer totally you can get the game 24/7 via Steam HERE. It usually costs £26.99/$29.99 (almost $5 cheaper in the US) or £54.99/$59.99 for the Barbarian Edition (over $10 cheaper in the US). Apart from art books, music etc and extra's for the other Conan game (Age of Conan), no extra content to the actual game is added if you purchase the Barbarian edition.

Introduction:

You are an exile, outcast and downtrodden, sentenced to walk in a barbaric wasteland where the weak are crushed and only the strong can live. Here you must fight to survive, build, and dominate the world alone on your own server, or with enemies and allies in online multiplayer.

Journey through a vast, seamless world filled with the ruins of ancient civilizations and uncover its dark history and buried secrets as you seek to conquer and dominate the exiled lands yourself. Start with nothing but your bare hands and forge the legacy of your clan, from simple tools and weapons to gigantic fortresses and entire cities. Enslave the bandits of the exiled lands to do your bidding by breaking them on the grueling Wheel of Pain. Sacrifice the beating hearts of your enemies on the blood-soiled altars of your god to seize true power and glory. Summon the colossal avatar of your god and see them lay waste to your enemies and their homes.

Just remember: in this brutal land of vengeful gods, bloodthirsty cannibals, and vicious monsters, survival is more than tracking down food and water. Explore mysterious ruins in search of treasure and knowledge, but beware the risk of your mind being corrupted by the dark forces of the world. Traverse vast sand dunes and seek shelter from scouring sandstorms sweeping across the burning sands. March into war against your enemies and unleash your savage fury in brutal combat. Go in unprepared and it will be your head rolling and limbs flying.

Conan Exiles is not an empty sandbox. It is a world rich in history where you must discover the knowledge and secrets of ancient civilizations as you struggle to build your own.

Survive the Barbaric Wasteland:

In the world of Conan the Barbarian, survival is more than being well-fed and hydrated. Here you must weather scouring sandstorms, save your mind from being corrupted and going insane, and fight vicious monsters from the darkest holes of the earth.

Build your Legacy in a Vast, Seamless World:

Journey through a huge, seamless world filled with danger and opportunity, exploring everything from sand dunes to towering ruins. Harvest resources to craft tools and weapons, then build everything from a small settlement to entire cities.

Discover the Dark History of Ancient Civilizations:

Explore shadow-haunted ruins of ancient civilizations and discover great treasures and knowledge. Learn about the people who inhabited this world before and what led to their demise through inscriptions, wandering NPCs, and the environment itself.

Call Uopn the Powers of the Gods:

Cut out the hearts of your enemies and sacrifice it upon the altars of your god to earn their blessing. Summon and take direct control of huge, towering avatars and wreak havoc on your enemies as you crush their homes and drive them from their lands.

Defend your Land with an Army of Slaves:

Enslave the criminals of the exiled lands and force them to join your cause and defend your territory. Put them through the grueling Wheel of Pain to break their will, then turn them into archers, crafters, entertainers, and more. Find rare thralls for the greatest rewards!

Dominate your Enemies:

March forth to war against your enemies, use explosives and see their fortifications crumble to dust, then unleash your savage fury with brutal attacks that will see heads rolling and limbs flying. Find or craft a wide range of weapons and armor.

Play Together or Alone:

Play alone locally or fight for survival and dominance in persistent multiplayer on public servers. You can also host your own server and invite others to join you in a world where you have full control of the rules and settings. Want to play with just handful of friends? Try co-op mode!

Control your Experience:

When playing alone locally or on a server you are the administrator of you have access to a range of in-game tools. These allow you to change progression speed, spawn monsters, turn yourself invisible, deactivate avatars, and much more. Be the dungeon master of your own server!

Play with Modifications:

Download Conan Exiles mods directly from the Steam workshop to customize your game experience. You can also download the custom Conan Exiles Unreal Editor and start creating your own!

Edited reference accessed HERE May 5th 2017

Installation:

To the lucky winners of a key, once you've activated the game it will be permanently associated with your Steam account and can be installed any time you wish.

If you have a problem installing or activating or getting Conan Exiles to work, first go to the Steam game forums HERE and type in Conan Exiles to get to the appropriate page. If your issue isn't posted, post one yourself. Hopefully someone from the Conan community will respond fairly quickly. At this time the game is very popular, so you may get help fairly quickly. Unfortunately the Steam User Forum has just closed it's doors today (though access is still up until the end of the day in case you want to copy over any information posted there. You can find the SPUF HERE. You can also visit the problems section over in the Game Discussion forums HERE.

The Game:

In Conan Exiles, you have been left to die in a barren wasteland. Near death, you are visited by none other than the legendary Conan the Barbarian, who rescues you from your crucifix and sends you off to build your own civilization in this land of savages and monsters. The main aim of Exiles is to build up a civilization – making your own fortresses, cities, Armies, slaves – to survive the harsh landscape that FunCom has created from the material of Robert E Howard’s mythology. Upgrading your fortress will allow it to withstand hordes of Savages or even the armies of other players, hoping to siege your walls, kill your people, and reap your spoils.

So off the bat, the first thing you’ll come into contact with, obviously, is the start menu. A loud orchestric collection of drums and trumpets plays, hypes you up for the barbaric lands of Sand and Slaughter. You are given a choice for Single player, in which you can survive as a lone wolf and become an even stronger King (with no allies can be no betrayal), or Multiplayer, allowing you and your friends to band together and rule over the Exiled Lands as an alliance. I prefer Single player/PvE over multiplayer because my internet speed is too bad for PvP, and I would just die anytime someone decided to sneak up on me (which happens a lot). It would be great to play with friends (if I had any), and I’m sure that the performance drop during combat will be fixed soon (the game is still in Early-Access territory), however I prefer to be able to experience the game how it was supposed to be played rather than being killed over and over again (just think what that can do to a man’s mentality).

The next thing you’ll notice after you’ve picked you’re playstyle (if you are on Multiplayer) is that it takes quite a while to load up all the servers, and once they do, there are hundreds of empty servers, essentially meaning that there is no point in playing Multiplayer if there aren’t multi-players. Then, once you have picked your server of choice, or even selected “Single player”, then your hype train of barbaric fun suddenly comes to…a…screeching…halt. The Loading screens. Oh god, the loading screens. I’ve probably spent so much time on loading screens that I’ll be asked to be its new-born child’s godfather. I can make a Five Minute Meal quicker than these loading times (5 minutes to be exact, if anyone was interested). Goldberg versus Kevin Owens at WWE Fastlane was quicker than these loading times. What I’m trying to say is: It takes a while for the games to actually load up. This is made worse by the chance that if you wonder what’s wrong with game and randomly click your mouse, only to find that the game has actually frozen and just crashes. Being fare, the load times are bearable, but the crashes are too frequent.

When you finally get into the game you’ll immediately notice the graphics. This game – its design of the barren landscape, the NPCs, the ruined buildings, the small pieces of paradise – is beautiful. FunCom has perfectly captured the detail in each biome, the individual grass flakes or the sand dunes, all of it look great. The water could be more reflective, but keep in mind this is an early stage version of the game, and there is no doubt that they are constantly working on making this game look even more gorgeous. Even on medium, which I was on to help the game run faster, it still looked great.

You can create and customize your own characters, unfortunately there isn’t a lot of choice when it comes to things like hair or face as there are few to choose from, however there is a face morphing feature and I’m sure FunCom will add more as the game develops.

Also you can choose your penis size and breast size, and this game features extreme nudity, there is just male genitalia everywhere.

This game works like most, almost all, survival games. You have to collect resources, craft tools, collect more resources, kill some strange turtle looking monsters and creepy testicle things (the Imps, I’m not talking about slaughter bunch of men’s knee-knaws), build a small hut, collect resources, and here’s where it becomes interesting, expand your hut, then collect MORE resources. This is then where the game actually begins to become more unique than other survival games. You can then go about recruiting (or enslaving) other Exiles, and begin to forge a community and build a bigger base. Once you’ve done this and you feel A. your fortress is strong enough to withstand sieges from enemy players (or NPCs) and B. You can confidently take on bigger, and badder enemies, then you can build altars and summon “avatars”: huge titanic god-like creatures that you can control to lay waste to your enemies, however they happen to be a bitch to summon.

Without going into too much detail, or I’ll be writing longer than it takes to actually summon an Avatar; you have to build a three tier altar, each piece of which takes quite a while, and a lot of resources to build, then you have to physically summon your god of choice (you can choose from Mitra; a gigantic bronze colossus – picture a huge Gladiator statue that moves, Set; An enormous snake – picture…an enormous snake, or Yog, An immense eldritch horror – picture Cthulhu, more to come). When summoning your god a huge beacon will appear that basically draws enemies to you in Single player, or reveals our location to everyone in Multiplayer. This means that you MUST make sure that either you can handle hordes of bad guys, or have some friends close by. If you die during the summoning then everything is lost, the God disappears, the ceremony ends, and you have to start building the altar again.

The combat in this game is what you would expect. Rapidly click your mouse to slash at enemies and dismember them. It’s nothing new, so it is pretty easy to pick up and master. In terms of enemies, this ranges from normal creatures like crocodiles or rhinos, to strange beasts like Imps (those testicle monsters I was talking about before), to the Crazy-giant boss monsters like Undead Dragons or Giant Spiders (of course it had to be Giant Spiders). Then of course there are also tons of fellow exiles and savages to worry about, but don’t worry if you run low on health there’s like a shit ton of rabbits and deer to elk, not to mention the handfuls of Bugs you can eat too. Basically, everything in this game either wants to kill you, or needs to be killed to survive. There are these things called Shalebacks, which are Turtle-Gorilla looking things that are supposed to be neutral and non-hostile (unless you attack them), but don’t worry about being confused because they’ll just attack you anyway.

The game features Admin controls (if you are the host of the server), which means you can customise the world’s day and night cycles, and also control how fast you lose points in each of your survival stats (Hunger, thirst, energy etc). Much like games like minecraft, you can also “cheat” and spawn in items and NPCs and also become a God and go around slaughtering people as an Invincible Killing Machine, which I am prone to doing.

Unfortunately, due to this game being very early access, it comes with a few bugs and glitches. Nothing major apart from the Loading screens freezing and performance rate dropping during battle, however I did notice a few which became very annoying. The first main one was that everything except deer and rabbits attacked me, even the neutral enemies. This meant that I was constantly being attacked and in a game where you have to learn how to survive a barren landscape, “barren” being the wrong word to describe it as it is full of living organisms (all of which want to kill you). I wasn’t able to befriend any bad guys because they would always attack me. Another annoying glitch is that even when you save your spawn point, using a bedroll or a bed, sometimes you won’t always re-spawn at that point. The game is due for full release sometime in 2018.

Features:

⦁ Siege Warfare: Players can attack each other’s settlements with powerful war machines, such as siege towers or trebuchets, and fling rotting corpses over the walls of their enemies to spread pestilence in their streets.
⦁ The Purge: Hordes of NPC warriors will sweep down into the Exiles Lands and attack player settlements. Players must ready their defenses against this brutal attack, but can also go on the offensive and capture new thralls and strong gear.
⦁ Mounts: You will be able to enjoy mounted combat on horses and capturing camels, rhinos or even elephants to be used for pack animals or crushing your opponents walls. Mounted combat will also make its way to Conan Exiles.
⦁ Sorcery: Embrace the dark corruption of magic to summon demons or raise the undead to create an army of skeletons. Magic in the world of Conan is more than shooting fireballs out of your hands: it’s dark, terrible, and twisted.

⦁ Settlement System: Create a living city, where you command your thralls to guard, patrol, craft, gather or trade based on your own schedules. Build roads, set up schedules for your thralls, and breathe life into your settlement.
⦁ Highland Biome: An all new area expanding the existing map into the highlands, with new creatures, armours, religions and a temperature system. Explore vast forests and scale tall mountains in this rugged, weather-beaten part of Hyboria.
⦁ Other Biomes: host to a large collection of harsh biomes, players can explore dark and haunted forests to brutal deserts.
⦁ Sacrifice : sacrifice enemy players to the gods to unlock secret powers that will help you turn the tide of battle.
⦁ Hunger and Day/Night System: players must manage their hunger/thirst in this survival game, and also take into account the time of the day to survive.
⦁ Fast-paced Combat: slay your enemies in first-person combat by crushing bones and sending limbs flying.
⦁ Extensive Crafting – collect resources and gather materials to craft weapons, armor, and items. Players can even construct buildings and band together to form cities.

PRO's:

⦁ Beautiful, great framerate
⦁ Great variety in Creatures
⦁ Easy to pick up and become familiar with
⦁ Better than most survival games (e.g. Ark – it actually works and runs well, and Rust – it has a great sense of fantasy and creativity – and No Man’s Sky – Don’t even get me started), and most Early-Access games
⦁ Cool choice of Playstyles (Purist, Roleplay, Experimental etc)
⦁ The developers have clearly allowed players to quickly progress through the survival aspects to be able to work on the main focus of the game which is to build up civilisations.
⦁ Character customisation is fun, needs more features though (no facial hair)
⦁ Combat is easy to learn
⦁ Barbaric combat
⦁ graphics.
⦁ RPG elements.
⦁ Various biomes to explore.
⦁ Extensive crafting, from gear to buildings.
⦁ Endowment control
⦁ Great immersive score

CON's:

⦁ Annoying amount of patches
⦁ Spawn point doesn’t always save even when it says it does
⦁ non-hostile creatures than should only attack you when you attack them attack you regardless
⦁ Loading screen freezes frequently - Performance issues
⦁ Loads of empty servers, making multiplayer pointless (however bear in mind that this is Early-Access)
⦁ Only 70 players per server
⦁ Long load up times
⦁ Cheating is easy, though takes the fun out of it
⦁ giant spiders.
⦁ The map is always the same, no procedural generation.

Edited reference accessed HERE Original review written by Jordi Steel 9th Feb 2017 Editeds by Whiterabbit-uk May 5th 2017

Other Reviews, Videos and a Slideshow of images:

You can see Steam community reviews of Conan Exiles HERE, and other reviews of the game HERE, HERE and HERE. If you want to see some game play, (nudity or scantily dressed characters are common in this game) watch some videos HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. You also see a slideshow of over 140 images (some nudity) HERE.

Useful Links:

⦁ Conan Exiles: How To Get Started
⦁ Conan Exiles: A Beginners Guide to Battling
⦁ The Current State of Conan Exiles
⦁ Conan Exiles – Thralls, and Where to Find Them
⦁ Conan Exiles Thrall Guide: How to Capture and Place Thralls in Your Base
⦁ Conan Exiles: Where To Find Iron
⦁ Conan Exiles – Where to Find Iron and Coal
⦁ Conan Exiles Rumors: Server Issues Making It Difficult For Players To Enjoy The Game?
⦁ 'Conan Exiles' Features & Early Access: War Mounts, Expanded Religion & Thrall System, Sorcery & More
⦁ Conan Exiles: Everything We Know About Dragons
⦁ Conan Exiles Beginners Walkthrough: Weapon Crafting, Build Shelter, Clans and PC Controls
⦁ Conan Exiles Interview: Learning About Clans, the Religion System, and More
⦁ Conan Exiles Crafting Guide: Understanding Knowledge Points, Materials, and Recipes
⦁ Conan Exiles Race and Religion Guide
⦁ How to Use the Bow in Conan Exiles
⦁ Conan Exiles Preview: Beyond a Politically Incorrect Curtain, Great Gameplay Potential Shines
⦁ Conan Exiles – How to Craft Steel
⦁ Conan Exiles Steam workshop
⦁ Conan Exiles Twitter
⦁ Conan Exiles Facebook
⦁ Conan Exiles Reddit
⦁ Official Conan Exiles website

Conclusion:

The developer gave me a free copy of this game so that i could post todays review, however, as I have only had just over 7 hours of game play so far, I've hardly scratched the surface. so far i've only played the single player game, getting used to the games mechanics, and trying to survive. To be honest, you need a a lot game play hours before you get to the stage where you have all the resources at hand to build defensive accommodation, your altar, and decent weapons and armor; with that in mind, the main bulk of this review comprises reviews from other players, and about 80% of the images were taken from online sources. I will be persevering with this game becasue it has similarities to other games i love to play such as The Elder Scrolls, Rust and Fallout: New Vegas (mainly the environments), plus I loved the Conan stories that Howard wrote; they were some of my stock reading when I was a teenager, together with Moorcock's Eternal Champion books (around 30 titles) and the early Shannara books by Terry Brooks (re-reading those at the moment) and of course one of my all time favorite fantasy books, The Lord of the Rings (which I've read about 20 times, though hardly touched the appendices). From my limited game play, I can tell I'm going to love this game and I'm really looking forwards to it being completed next year. Comparing it to other survival games like Rust, Ark: Survival Evolved , 7 days to die, Everspace, Don't Starve, Day Z, Subnautica, Outlast (not played the 2nd one yet), The Long Dark, and loads more, this is certainly one of the better ones. Like most early releases there are issues, especially when joining servers with loads of players, but hopefully by the time the game leaves early access these should have been solved. My initial opinion of this game; if you like fantasy games mixed with survival then this is a game you'll almost certainly love. If like me you prefer lone wolf (single player games, then this game has that as well. You can play on your own private server playing against NPC's or if you've got a good friend play coop and work through the grinding tasks quicker. I'll be updating this review as I gain more experience. At the moment it has replaced my favorite RPG The Elder Scrolls Online and although I have thousands of hours of game play time in the Elder Scrolls (via two copies of the online version and all the other single player games, I think I'm going to enjoy this game more.

Conan Exiles is a promising Hyborian Survival game. It shows signs that the developers are heading the right direction with this, but it just needs a little bit more. It can feel repetitive at times, and if you’re not playing with friends, it soon becomes a bore and there becomes little point to continuing. I would love to see more features for Character Customization, NPC Interaction (companionship building or Quest givers), or even more items to find. This game has so much to offer, it just doesn’t have it yet. I hope the developers see this and know that what they have, for an early-access game, is really good, and it’s close to possibly being the best Multiplayer Survival games in the market. If it gets more –say – RPG elements, and more story and reason-to-play, then it could be great

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the developer FunCom for giving away 20 keys (plus an extra one for me) for this excellent fantasy survival game based on Robert E Howards Conan books and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing these Steam key.