List of games based on Conan the Barbarian

The Conan the Barbarian saga has appeared in a variety of forms in the gaming community from simple boardgames to high tech multiplayer online games. The intention of all these games is to immerse the player in the sword and sorcery world of Hyboria. Robert E. Howard created the original Conan story but he had no hand in creating various games other than they were based on his works.

Board Games

Collectible Card Game

Hyborian Gates is a collectible trading card game.

Board Game

Age of Conan: The Strategy Board Game is a board game published by Fantasy Flight Games (2009)

Conan: Hyborian Quests (2015) is a board game with miniatures, to be published in 2015 by Monolith and Asmodee. One player contols the evil creatures (Necromancer, Picts, monsters) and the other players control Conan and his companions. The game will launch through Kickstarter in January 2015, and will release worldwide in August 2015.

Role-playing games

Conan (D&D supplements)

Capitalizing on the release of the Conan movies, TSR created two licensed Conan adventures for their Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in 1984. The line sold very poorly and in time was discontinued; the adventures (called "modules" in the Dungeons & Dragons community) often found their way to the bargain bin in most hobby shops but are now often prized by collectors.

Conan Role-Playing Game

The Conan Role-Playing Game was published by TSR, Inc. in 1985. This boxed game was designed for players age 10 and up contained a full-color map, a 32 page will book, a 16 page reference guide and a 48 page notebook about the land of Hyboria plus two 10 sided dice. The series was very short-lived producing only three adventures each based on novels from the Conan series.

Supplements:

GURPS Conan

GURPS Conan for the GURPS roleplaying system was produced in 1989 by Steve Jackson Games. The other GURPS Conan books were GURPS solo adventures and started a year before, with GURPS Conan: Beyond Thunder River

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Conan: The Roleplaying Game

Conan: The Roleplaying Game, by Mongoose Publishing, was published under the Open Game License using a custom adaptation of the d20 System. The game comprises a 352-page rulebook (a second edition was expanded to 424 pages) and various add-on adventures and sourcebooks for both the first and second editions.

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Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of

Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, by Modiphius Entertainment, is the role-playing game officially licensed from Conan Properties Inc. The main game consists of a 368 page full colour hardcover book using the innovative 2d20 system. The game was launched through a hugely successful Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign.

Miniatures and Strategy Games

Hyborian War is a play-by-mail strategy game published by Reality Simulations as of 1985. The game gives players strategic control of a Hyborian nation.[1]

There is also a slated Age of Conan Fantasy Battle Game in development by Mongoose Publishing[2] and an Age of Conan Strategy Board Game published by Nexus Editrice.[3]

In January 2015, a new Conan miniatures boardgame will be launched through Kickstarter. Conan:Hyborian Quests, published by a Monolith, is based on Robert E. Howard's short stories, and opposes one player controlling the evil forces to the heroes, played by 2 to 4 players, controlling Conan and his companions.

Video games

Conan: Hall of Volta

This version was released for the Apple II series, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and Commodore 64 in 1984.

Conan: The Cimmerian

This version was released for MS-DOS in 1991 by Virgin Games, Inc.

Conan: The Mysteries of Time

A version of the game Myth: History in the Making programmed by System 3 was rebranded as "Conan" and released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Published by Mindscape in 1990, this was a side scrolling game reminiscent of Castlevania.

Conan (2004)

A third person perspective action adventure developed by Cauldron Software and published by TDK in 2004, "Conan - The Dark Axe" was a lengthy tale that saw Conan visit and fight in nearly all parts of the Hyborian world. The game was based primarily on R. E. Howard's stories but also paid homage to John Milius's movie, as well as to some of the Conan tales written by Lin Carter and Lion Sprague de Camp.

Conan (2007)

For the Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3. It was released in the US on October 23, 2007. Conan is a single player, third person perspective videogame. The game combines a range of traditional video game challenges with particularly brutal and satisfying game-play. Conan offers a good variety of weapons and combos to enable the player to pull off some amazing kills, sending limbs and heads flying everywhere. The game also features the voice-acting of Ron Perlman as the Mighty Barbarian.

Age of Conan: Unchained

Age of Conan: Unchained is a massively multiplayer online game created by Funcom that allows players from around the world to populate the world of Hyboria and even allow them to create their own cities. Opponents include everything from scorpions to forest crawlers including Conan's famous camel. Play modes include a single player option to learn you character alone, a multiplayer mode, which is similar to EverQuest and finally a player versus player siege mode. The Age of Conan

Conan: Tower of the Elephant

Conan: Tower of the Elephant is a game made for the iOS by Chillingo Ltd. Conan: Tower of the Elephant

Conan Exiles

Conan Exiles is an open-world survival game made for the PC, PS4 and Xbox one made by Funcom with an expected release during summer 2016.[4] The playable character will not be Conan but a player created character who is rescued by him.[5]

References

  1. ↑ - Retrieved on 2012-09-17
  2. ↑ Age Of Conan: Fantasy Battle Game from Mongoose Publishing - June 1, 2006 - retrieved on January 25, 2007
  3. ↑ Nexus Editrice to publish the strategy board game - August 8, 2006 - retrieved on February 18, 2007
  4. ↑ Official Site for Conan Exiles
  5. ↑ Developer Diary #1 - An Introduction to Conan Exiles - January 29th, 2016 - retrieved on March 16th, 2016
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