Conan Unconquered, the horde survival RTS from genre veterans Petroglyph, is out now. Rather than than have a heavily scripted single-player campaign, it’s openly inspired by the zombie swarm RTS and early access hit They Are Billions, at least as it once was. Solo or co-op, players need to build a fortress capable of enduring a sustained siege on all sides from a mixture of human and montrous enemies. Heroes (like Conan himself) can also be sent on outings to slay bosses, raid temples and gather loot. Below, a launch trailer, showing off just how big the enemy waves get.

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We’re just five weeks from the launch of Conan Unconquered, Petroglyph’s ‘survival strategy’ game based on the famous barbarian fantasy setting. Up until now we’ve only had brief glimpses at how it actually works, though. We know it’s a traditional RTS (albeit single-player/co-op focused) by an experienced studio, but we haven’t seen much of what sets it apart. Today’s video breaks down its systems, including its escalating enemy waves, corpse-piles spreading disease outside your walls, and temples out in the wild to be raided for treasure. Take a look at it in motion below.

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What is best in life? If you answered “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women,” mate, calm down. No, what’s best in life isn’t invading, conquering, or pillaging, it’s having a nice little sit-down without anyone tromping all over your lawn. That’s the calmer pace of life Conan the Sedentarian seeks in Conan Unconquered, the upcoming survival RTS from Petroglyph. Publishers Funcom blasted the first in-game peek today and yup, it does look a fair bit like They Are Billions, only it’s barbarian hordes and novelty oversized wildlife banging on our walls.

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Conan’s gamelords Funcom have announced that the barbarian’s fantasy land is to host a real-time strategy game, Conan Unconquered, made by Petroglyph Games. Petroglyph the studio founded by several former Command & Conquer folks, who’ve since come on to make games including Grey Goo and Star Wars: Empire At War. Conan Unconquered sounds a curious one, with base-building and wall-raising and armies and all that… in service of surviving waves of enemy attackers. It’s a wave-survival RTS. And it has two-player co-op. And you can summon honking great monsters like that bronze chap to help. Huh!

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