I've been playing "Conan Exiles" and other than Fallout 4, this is really my first survival game (I don't really count FO4 since that part is optional). Its pretty fun. It's set in the Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian. You create a character and start the game nailed to a cross and then Conan wanders by, cuts you down and leaves. You start out naked (I am playing with nudity on so I am being literal). You then gather plants, sticks, and stone to fashion clothes, tools and weapons. You fight hostile animals, monsters, and people as you collect materials to build a base, craft weapons, armor, and items, and capture other exiles, tie them to the wheel of pain (like in the Conan movie) until Stockholm syndrome sets in and they become your "thrall." Depending on their specialty they can either fight along your side (fighters, archers, bearers), assist in crafting and processing materials (blacksmith, armor-smith, carpenter, alchemist, tanner, etc), or sit in your base giving buffs (dancers, entertainers, priests). You also can tame animals. You essentially build a castle (or town or city) brick by brick (kind of like mine craft) and make yourself king or queen of your own little kingdom you build from the ground up. There's also world bosses, dungeons, purges (like the movie The Purge), undead armies, etc. Basically your own little part of the Hyborian Age to use as a sandbox. I am playing solo, but you can play co-op with friends or on an MMO like server where you can build armies and defend castles with other players from other armies of players. You can even summon gods to show up and assist in attacking or defending your base (Kaiju style). There a ton of videos online of people building amazing castles, palaces, towns, etc and its pretty neat.
