[2019] I can't stop playing Conan Exiles

I tried it out as a part of the PS+ because couple of my friends wanted to give it a spin. Ho boy, that was a mistake. I got way too many games to play in my backlog but this is the only one I can think about now. It's been ages since I wanted some survival game (played The Long Dark a little) as well as some 3D building game (been playing Terraria quite a lot) which is not Meinkraft. This game tickles my pickle by covering both of the bases and is packed in pretty nice yet brutal world design.

I absolutely loved the initial hours of the game, discovering what I can do in the game and dying couple times before I realized how to get food, how to craft basic stuff or how to get weapon. My first moment meeting another humanoid, thinking oh hey, maybe that's friendly, oh hey, it pulled out spear, oh hey, I'm out in desert again with nothing in my inventory. The game loop is somehow appealing to an extent that I don't want to do anything else than build up my base, my castle, my whole freaking town (and Asian temples because Yamatai DLC is right up my alley).

I am still discovering new features (taming animals, getting slaves) all the time and I'm sure the game still has lot to offer. And I heard there's massive world to explore once I'm done with building all the shiny stuff. Which I can't wait to explore. The tiny bits and pieces I've seen so far were intriguing, like random ruins, statues to climb (you can freaking climb in this game!) and I'm yet to see the City location, so I'm wondering what's that about. I still hope to discover if there are mounts in the game, so will see.

My only annoyance was being tethered to my mates when playing the coop mode on PS4 so I just rented a server where we can free roam anywhere we want and anytime we want. And now I'm sitting in work, checking out the cool builds people made. When I'm not playing the game I'm thinking about playing the game and my brain struggles to keep up with all the things I want to build and do. But you know what comes before all that?

Grind, so much material grid. And I love that too, wouldn't have it any other way (except upgrading my tools to mine faster). I just can switch off and go harvest hundreds of resources.

Thank you for making this awesome game.