Games Like Conan Exiles

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 17.2%, Open World 11.5%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its persistent multiplayer survival sandbox, big clan bases, creature taming, and constant danger make it one of the closest matches to Conan Exiles' overall loop.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Survival 14.4%, Building 14.4%, Open World 13.1%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers large-scale survival crafting, guild warfare, taming, and kingdom-building in a historical sandbox that hits many of Conan's strongest notes.

Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Survival 15.3%, Building 13.6%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: This tribal survival sandbox mirrors Conan especially well with fortress building, brutal combat, and NPC follower systems that feel a lot like thralls.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 12%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you love surviving, gathering, and constructing impressive strongholds in a hostile mythic world, Valheim scratches that same building-and-adventure itch.

This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.5% ★, Open World 16.4%, Survival 14.5%, Massively Multiplayer 10.9%, Crafting 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the most directly comparable fantasy survival sandboxes on Steam, swapping Conan's barbarian tone for magic and flying mounts.

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Survival 12.2%, Open World 10.4%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its harsh shared-world survival, faction conflict, and base-building in a deadly desert make it a strong pick for Conan fans who like persistent online worlds.

You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.

Why similar: Survival 22.5%, Open World 21.4%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world exploration, RPG progression, and excellent base building in a fantasy setting that feels very natural for Conan players.

Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 9.4%, Nudity 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong fit for players who enjoy Conan's harsher survival side, with deep systems, open-world multiplayer, and defensible player bases.

The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Why similar: Survival 23.1%, Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: For players who most enjoy Conan's PvP, raiding, and defending a hard-earned base, Rust offers the purest version of that survival sandbox tension.

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Survival 21.8%, Open World 16.4%, Massively Multiplayer 16.1%, Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its clan-based survival, mobile bases, and territory warfare echo Conan's multiplayer sandbox side even if the setting is more nomadic sci-fi.

Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.

Why similar: Survival 21.9%, Open World 18.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Building 10.3%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Castle building, online server play, boss progression, and resource-driven survival make it a great alternative if you like Conan's base-and-progression structure.

Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?

Why similar: Open World 19.1%, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 11.5%, Massively Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving sandbox MMO design, player politics, and dangerous open world capture the same sense of risk and freedom that makes Conan compelling.

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 12%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Realm-hopping aside, its core loop of gathering, crafting, building, and gearing up in a fantasy survival world overlaps nicely with Conan Exiles.

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.1% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 10.8%, Building 10.3%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers strong co-op survival crafting and creative base building in a dangerous open world, just with a miniature-scale twist.

Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!

Why similar: Survival 23.8%, Open World 19%, Crafting 13.1%, Massively Multiplayer 12.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Company-scale survival, large construction projects, and server politics make it a good match for players who enjoy Conan's broader social sandbox element.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Survival 17.5%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Though more mission-based, it still delivers satisfying gathering, crafting, base-building, and co-op survival in a dangerous open environment.

A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 10%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its Viking survival and settlement-building focus leans hard into the same fantasy of turning a rough outpost into a thriving stronghold.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 18.6%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is less PvP-focused but nails the struggle for survival, crafting, and building shelter in a hostile open world.

Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.2% ★, Survival 15.6%, Open World 12.5%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: This medieval PvP survival game overlaps heavily with Conan through fortress building, raiding, and old-school sandbox server conflict.

A survival crafting adventure set in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth. Lead the Dwarves to reclaim Moria - mine, build, and battle through procedurally generated depths alone or with up to 8 players in co-op. It is time to return to Moria!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 11.5%, Open World 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op fantasy survival game centers on rebuilding, crafting, and holding territory in a dangerous world, which lines up well with Conan's survival fantasy.

Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.

Why similar: Survival 20.4%, Open World Survival Craft 19% ★, Open World 18.5%, Massively Multiplayer 13.9%, Sandbox 9%

Why You'll Like It: Fantasy survival, building, taming, and magic in a shared open world make it a natural thematic cousin to Conan Exiles.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Survival 22.7%, Open World 13.6%, Building 11%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its long-term survival progression, crafting depth, and heavily fortified bases make it a strong sandbox pick for Conan players.

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 23.7%, Open World 18.4%, Building 13.2%, Crafting 12.2%, Multiplayer 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: If you want ARK's survival-and-building gameplay in its newer form, this remake remains a solid Conan-like alternative.

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.4% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 13.5%, Crafting 10.6%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its slower, more simulation-heavy approach still offers medieval survival, deep crafting, and player-built strongholds that Conan fans may appreciate.

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: Survival 25.6%, Open World 20.3%, Crafting 15.4%, Building 13.6%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: While lighter on raw survival, its open-world progression and settlement management strongly appeal to the 'build your home into a kingdom' side of Conan.

Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?

Why similar: Open World 25.6%, Crafting 23.3%, Sandbox 15.6%, Multiplayer 12%, PvP 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This social fantasy sandbox emphasizes communal building, persistent worlds, and carving out territory with other players, much like Conan's kingdom-building appeal.

The Front is a survival open-world crafting sandbox game. You are a resistance fighter sent back in time to stop the rise of a tyrannical empire. Collect resources, craft tech, build shelters, and fight monsters to accomplish your mission.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Survival 13.6%, Building 10.5%, Open World 10.4%, Crafting 10%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers open-world survival, base construction, vehicles, and multiplayer server progression in a way that feels structurally similar to Conan.

A challenging exploration and survival adventure, set in the dying world of Dragons. Only those who harness the power of Frozen Flame have the means to survive the harsh conditions of the realm and able to muster the strength to cleanse it for good.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Survival 12.8%, Open World 11.1%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of fantasy exploration, magic, crafting, and base building feels like a more mystical but still familiar take on the Conan formula.

Once Human is a multiplayer open-world survival game set in a strange, post-apocalyptic future. Unite with friends to fight monstrous enemies, uncover secret plots, compete for resources, and build your own territory. Once, you were merely human. Now, you have the power to remake the world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.1% ★, Survival 16.6%, Open World 13.5%, Massively Multiplayer 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a more shooter-driven take on persistent multiplayer survival, yet its bases, server play, and world progression still make it a relevant Conan alternative.

Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.

Why similar: Survival 28.2%, Open World 21%, Crafting 12.3%, Building 11.5%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is more intimate and horror-leaning, but scavenging, crafting, and fortifying a base with friends feels immediately familiar.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Survival 17.8%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Building 8.1%

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Survival 19.2%, Open World 15.4%, Massively Multiplayer 9.9%, Multiplayer 7.1%

Hurtworld is a hardcore multiplayer survival FPS with a focus on competitive gunplay and strategic map control. Built for hardcore gamers, Hurtworld aims to punish.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Survival 21.5%, Open World 13.4%, Crafting 10.4%, Building 10.1%

Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.6% ★, Survival 17.3%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 5.8%

Mortal Online is a first-person medieval fantasy MMORPG, set in a huge, open, unforgiving world. Choose your race, choose your playstyle, choose a profession, choose where to place your loyalties - if you have any...

Why similar: Open World 22.1%, Massively Multiplayer 17.2%, Survival 16.1%, Sandbox 10.7%, Nudity 9.4%

Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Why similar: Survival 23.9%, Open World 17.2%, Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 8.8%

You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Survival 16.4%, Open World 10.6%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 7.7%

Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.

Why similar: Open World 26.2%, Massively Multiplayer 20.4%, Open World Survival Craft 15% ★, Crafting 8.2%, Multiplayer 6.5%

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.2%, Building 12.1%, Crafting 9.3%

Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Survival 20.6%, Open World 13.7%, Crafting 6.8%, Multiplayer 6.2%

Age of Conan: Unchained is an award-winning and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online game set in the sexy, savage and brutal world of Conan the Barbarian. Tread in the footsteps of the greatest fantasy hero of all time, and explore the vast reaches of Hyboria.

Why similar: Nudity 26.3%, Massively Multiplayer 24.2%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Gore 10.7%, RPG 8.1%

Valnir Rok is a multiplayer survival roleplaying game in a Viking setting with quests by bestselling author Giles Kristian. Explore a huge open world, craft items, cook meals, build houses and found clan cities. Raid other clans or place bounties. Pray to the gods and survive.

Why similar: Survival 21%, Open World 19.2%, Open World Survival Craft 18.1% ★, Massively Multiplayer 12.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%

Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Open World 11.1%, Building 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%

This is a multiplayer cooperative open world construction survival sandbox game, where you and your friends must find supplies and build shelters in this world. You have to keep an eye on your character's needs state at all times, a bad state is likely to lead to death.

Why similar: Survival 26.3%, Open World 19.2%, Crafting 12.4%, Building 10.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%

Survive the wilderness, build a home, raise a family, and expand your territory. Gain power as President, deliver justice as Sheriff, fight for your tribe as Chief, or show some southern hospitality as Governor. Begin your new life in 19th century America.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Survival 22.6%, Open World 17.4%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Building 7.3%

An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 20.2%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 7.8%, Massively Multiplayer 6.7%

MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Massively Multiplayer 11.2%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.5%, Crafting 9.2%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Survival 16.7%, Open World 11.6%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.1%

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 12.2%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 11%

A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, Survival 12.9%, Building 10.9%, Open World 10.7%, Crafting 10.1%

Survive a brutal open world alone or with friends. Explore a procedural wasteland scorched by chaos. Build and defend your base, trade for what you need, complete deadly quests, and fight to claim faction outposts before someone else does.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.6% ★, Survival 14.2%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 7.6%

Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 12.6%, Open World 10.5%, Building 8.6%

Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 10%, Building 10%, Open World 9.4%

Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Survival 13.3%, Building 10.6%, Open World 10.2%, Crafting 10.1%

Life is Feudal: Arden is a new free-to-play open-world MMORPG set in the Middle Ages, built on the foundation of Life is Feudal: MMO. Engage in thrilling PvP combat, navigate political intrigue, master a variety of professions and craft unique items. Forge your own path to power and greatness!

Why similar: Building 18%, Survival 16.5%, Crafting 15.7%, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 11.4%

MIST SURVIVAL is a Single-player, survival stealth sandbox game Players will experience the Apocalypse stimulation in the form of virus pandemic, the players have to deal with it to survive through the difficulties such as finding shelter and food, threats from the environment and climate: wild animals, bandits, infected, and dense mist t

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.5% ★, Survival 26.1%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 8.2%, Sandbox 4.6%

On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Open World 13.6%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%

Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.

Why similar: Building 20.8%, Crafting 19.3%, Survival 17.9%, Open World 14.7%, Multiplayer 8.3%

Gloria Victis is an MMORPG with an emphasis on realism, set in a low-fantasy medieval open world. Enjoy MMO with skill-based non-target combat, open PVP with territory control, deep crafting system and player-driven economy – all that served with beautiful graphics and an immersive atmosphere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.9% ★, Open World 18.5%, Massively Multiplayer 14.2%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.4%