


You must overcome the odds and learn to thrive in the Exiled Lands. You are one of countless exiles cast out into the wastelands to die. After all, the general gameplay experience is basically the same, just a lot more toxic.Ĭonan Exiles is a survival sandbox game based in the brutal mythology of the Conan the Barbarian series. It should be easy for Ark fans to transition to Rust. The strongest among them roam the wilds with AKs, hunting for anyone with a home and a cache of resources. Just remember: other players want what you have, and they’ll do anything to get it. With a bit of luck, you could even work your way up to an armored compound. Eventually, you’ll collect enough materials to build a rudimentary home from wooden planks and stone blocks. You must learn to live off the land, gathering wood by banging rocks against trees and tying sticks and stones together to make tools. When you first spawn, you’re as naked as the day you were born (or in a tight-fitting pair of undies if you have nudity off). There’s just something about the game that brings out the worst in people. Players will hunt you down, chase you through the woods, raid you in your sleep, and force you to strip naked in the middle of the freezing wilderness. If you live for hardcore PVP in your survival sandboxes, Rust is the game for you. But there’s no better praise if you loved the open world PVP of Ark: Survival Evolved.

Some would describe Atlas as Ark with pirates, which isn’t inaccurate. You can deck out your ship with cannons to fire from afar, ram enemy ships, or even conduct a good old fashioned naval boarding. Sometimes it’s not even about the loot - the naval combat is loads of fun. The PVP in Atlas is just as cutthroat as Ark’s, and the ocean is full of players scanning the waters for potential raid targets. And when you put real players in a PVP world and give them boats, you get pirates. Since so much of the world is water, that means you’ll need a boat to get around. Instead of a single, large land mass, the map is mostly ocean and spotted with hundreds of little islands for you to explore. Nautical exploration is the main draw in Atlas. It trades Ark’s dinos for an assortment of watercraft, from simple rowboats that you can operate solo to massive warships that require a whole crew. Atlas is made by a Studio Wildcard spin-off team, developers of Ark: Survival Evolved, and was built using the same engine that powers that dino-taming survival sandbox.
