Fuck, how could I forget about the masterpiece called Dark Sun: Shattered Lands?Dark Sun?
What an insult, Crom strike you! MMO is the least satisfying genre of all when adventure comes in mind, and Conan's stories are all about adventure in the first place.Conan Exiles is one obvious answer; Conan is in the game and you can make your character similar if you like. But it is also a very grindy base building game without much by way of an active story (though the theme/mood is appropriate), and the default game settings seem to be balanced around playing on a server with multiple people.
I'm not much into base building games but I played to the end because the combat is solid. I dodged around the grind by changing settings to reduce the pain of building up bases (The beginning part where you're scraping to get anything going is fine on default, I think, but once I had a foothold and realized the depth of "gather 100 X to make Y, gather 100 Y to make Z, gather 100 Z to make..." I noped out of the defaults). Having a camp with a wheel of pain and captives working under your eye is pretty fun.
What an insult, Crom strike you! MMO is the least satisfying genre of all when adventure comes in mind, and Conan's stories are all about adventure in the first place.
Yes, going into dark tunnels hunting goblins and fighting undead forces of Hel is exactly what Conan is about.
To be honest as well: I've nothing against Exiles. Not my cup of tea, but I believe it's a pretty good game in its own genre.What an insult, Crom strike you! MMO is the least satisfying genre of all when adventure comes in mind, and Conan's stories are all about adventure in the first place.
Hah, fair. The ambiance is there in Exiles but you're definitely right that there isn't a narrative. For what it is worth, I'm a story kind of guy and only picked up Exiles on a deep discount!
Good point! Albeit largely different in the style department the game is set in an unforgiving, brutal world where morals boil down to eat or be eaten more often than not. As they do in Conan's world.I just played Conan Exiles, and while I imagine it’s not great if you don’t play it with at least a couple of friendos, and the game is definitely not for everyone, the Conan vibe/atmosphere is downright great. They really brought out the feel of the novels and the world, to the point where I’m now mad they haven’t made a single player RPG.
Otherwise, I’d say Dark Sun: Shattered Lands.