Weekly PC download charts: Conan Exiles shows fortitude in third week


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  • Tuesday, 22 May 2018

Players struggle to survive a harsh environment and each other in Conan Exiles. — AFP Relaxnews

Released after over a year of intensive, active and public-access development on May 8, a reworked Conan Exiles continued to advance up the Steam, GamersGate and Fanatical charts on May 21.

In Conan Exiles, players take the identity of a male or female warrior and enter a savage survival simulation set in the world of Robert E. Howard's Conan The Barbarian.

Upon its early access launch in January 2017, the newcomer was so popular that parent studio Funcom recovered initial development costs within a week.

Now available on PlayStation 4 as well as PC and Xbox One, the game appears to have regained some of that early momentum, rising up the Steam, GamersGate and Fanatical charts to make a top five appearance in each.

Elsewhere, the fast-moving, spell combat, randomised adventure Wizard Of Legend lodged itself in fourth on the Steam chart, benefiting from a simultaneous release across PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, a strong first title from two-person studio Contingent99.

Home improvement sim House Flipper also caught the zeitgeist, inviting players to turn crumbling shacks into modern-day manors, and found its way to Steam's fifth place.

As for Wizard Of Legend, that's a big achievement considering its sub-US$20 (RM79.35) price on the revenue-based chart.

Finally, action role-playing adventure Pillars Of Eternity II triumphed with top spots on GOG and Fanatical and a fourth place finish on GamersGate. Battle royale genre spearhead PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been Steam's bestseller, by purchase revenue, for 60 weeks in a row now.

Steam* (steampowered.com)
1. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
2. Conan Exiles
3. Grand Theft Auto V
4. Wizard Of Legend
5. House Flipper
*Steam chart based on revenue rather than units.

Humble Store (humblebundle.com/store)
1. Destiny 2 – Expansion Pass
2. Just Cause 3 XL Edition
3. Wizard Of Legend
4. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
5. Borderlands 2: Game of the Year edition

GamersGate EU (gamersgate.com)
1. Conan Exiles
2. Dying Light Enhanced Edition
3. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
4. Pillars Of Eternity II: Deadfire
5. Project Cars 2 Deluxe

Fanatical (fanatical.com)
1. Pillars Of Eternity II: Deadfire
2. Tyranny – Overlord Edition
3. Warhamemr 40,000: Space Marine
4. Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 – Deluxe Edition
5. Conan Exiles

GOG (gog.com)
1. Pillars Of Eternity: Definitive Edition
2. Tyranny – Commander Edition
3. STALKER: Call of Pripyat
4. Pillars Of Eternity II: Deadfire
5. STALKER Shadow Of Chernobyl

Itchio's Most Popular (itch.io)
1. Baldi's Basics In Education And Learning
2. Exiles
3. Strange Terror From Beyond The Stars
4. Insomnis
5. Appeeling Personality
— AFP Relaxnews

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