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 games
Hyborian Risk is an unofficial variant for the Risk boardgame based on the Conan mythos, published in The Space Gamer magazine in issue 37 (March, 1981).[1]
Age of Conan: The Strategy Board Game is a board game published by Fantasy Flight Games (2009)
Conan (2016) is a board game with miniatures, published in 2016 by Monolith and Asmodee. One player controls the evil creatures (Necromancer, Picts, monsters, etc.) and the other players control Conan and his companions. The game launched through Kickstarter in January 2015, and released worldwide in November 2016. Numerous supplements rounded out the entire Conan mythos, through several more Kickstarter campaigns (2017, 2018, 2021, 2024).
Conan: Baal-pteor
Conan: Black Dragons
Conan: The Black Ones
Conan: Book of Set
Conan: Brom guest box
Conan: Crossbowmen
Conan: Demon of the Earth
Conan: Dragon
Conan: Giant Wolves
Conan: Khitai
Conan: Kushite Witch Hunters
Conan: The Legend of the Devil in Iron
Conan: The Monolith Sourcebook
Conan: Nordheim
Conan: The Overlord I
Conan: Paolo Parente guest box
Conan: Sabertooth Tiger
Conan: Stygia
Conan: Vanir Valkyrie
Conan: Xavier Collette guest box
Conan: Yogah of Yag
Conan the Conqueror
Conan the Conqueror: Hidden Chambers
Conan the Conqueror: Tome of Skelos
Conan the Conqueror: The Shadow Kingdom
Conan the Conqueror: Tales of the Red Brotherhood
Conan: Red Nails
Conan: Red Nails: Frank Frazetta box
Conan: Red Nails: Versus Mode
Conan: Red Nails: Worms of the Earth
Role-playing games
Earliest Appearances
Conan's first appearance in Dungeons & Dragons with game statistics was in Supplement IV: Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes (TSR, 1976), in a section of the book devoted to ROBERT E. HOWARD'S HYBOREA.
Conan was defined by Gary Gygax for the first time for Dungeons & Dragons in his article "Conan!", an installment of Gygax's regular "From the Sorcerer's Scroll" column, in The Dragon Magazine #36 (April 1980).
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.
RS1 Red Sonja Unconquered (Although not strictly based on Conan, it features a female character adventuring through the lands of the Hyborian Age, as featured in the Conan stories).
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.
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
Supplements:
GURPS Conan: Beyond Thunder River (1988)
GURPS Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast (1989)
GURPS Conan: Moon of Blood (1989)
GURPS Conan the Wyrmslayer (1989)
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.
Conan: The Roleplaying Game (hardcover, 352 pages, January 2004)
Conan: The Roleplaying Game (Atlantean Edition, hardcover, 352 pages, August 2004: revised and corrected second printing of the original edition)
Conan: The Roleplaying Game (Pocket Edition, softcover, January 2005)
Conan: The Roleplaying Game (2nd Edition, hardcover, 424 pages, September 2007)
Supplements:
Across the Thunder River
Adventures in the Hyborian Age (2nd Edition)
Aquilonia - Flower of the West
Argos and Zingara
Bestiary of the Hyborian Age (2nd Edition)
Betrayer of Asgard (2nd Edition)
The Black Stones of Kovag-Re
Catacombs of Hyboria (2nd Edition)
Cimmeria (2nd Edition)
Cities of Hyboria (2nd Edition)
The Coming of Hanuman
The Compendium
Faith and Fervour
The Free Companies
Game Master's Screen
The Heretics of Tarantia
Hyboria's Fallen - Pirates, Thieves and Temptresses
Hyboria's Fiercest - Barbarians, Borderers and Nomads
Hyboria's Finest - Nobles, Scholars and Soldiers
Khitai (2nd Edition)
The Lurking Terror of Nahab
Messantia - City of Riches
The Pirate Isles
Player's Guide to the Hyborian Age (2nd Edition)
Reavers of the Vilayet
Return to the Road of Kings (The Road of Kings 2nd Edition)
The Road of Kings
Ruins of Hyboria
The Scrolls of Skelos
The Secrets of Skelos (The Scrolls of Skelos 2nd Edition)
Shadizar - City of Wickedness
Shem - Gateway to the South
Stygia - Serpent of the South
Tales of the Black Kingdoms
Tito's Trading Post
The Tower of the Elephant
Trial of Blood (2nd Edition)
The Warrior's Companion (2nd Edition)
Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of
Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, by Modiphius Entertainment, is the role-playing game currently officially licensed from Conan Properties Inc. The main game consists of a 368-page full colour hardcover book using their 2d20 system. The game was launched in 2017 through a hugely successful Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign, and since then, a number of supplements have been published in book form:
This version was released for MS-DOS and Amiga in 1991 by Virgin Games, Inc.
Conan (2004)
Conan (2004) is 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 (2007) is a single player, third-person perspective videogame. The game combines a range of traditional video game challenges with a focus on particularly brutal game-play featuring decapitations and dismemberment. The game also features the voice-acting of Ron Perlman as Conan.
Age of Conan: Unchained
Age of Conan: Unchained is an MMORPG created by Funcom. In addition to typical MMO gameplay, it features PvP siege gameplay where players build and attack each other's cities.
Conan Exiles is an open-world survival game made for the PC, PS4 and Xbox One made by Funcom.[6] The playable character is a player created character who is rescued by Conan.[7]
Conan Unconquered
Conan Unconquered is a real-time survival strategy game set in the barbaric world of Conan the Barbarian where you must build your stronghold and assemble an unconquerable army to survive the savage hordes of Hyboria. Conan Unconquered was released on 29 May 2019.[8]
Conan Chop Chop
Conan Chop Chop is an action-adventure rogue-like game, released on March 1, 2022.[9]