Conan Exiles- Year 1 DLC Bundle (DLC)

Let's be clear about what this bundle actually is before you click buy. The Year 1 DLC Bundle collects the four cosmetic content packs Funcom released across 2018 for the open-world survival RPG Conan Exiles: the Imperial East Pack (Khitan-themed), the Jewel of the West Pack (Aquilonian), the Savage Frontier Pack (Pictish), and the Seekers of the Dawn Pack (Yamatai). Each pack layers a distinct cultural aesthetic on top of the base game. None of them shift the mechanical needle. Every piece of armor, every weapon, every building piece carries stats comparable to what you can already craft in the vanilla game. If you were hoping for new story beats, new biomes, or anything that changes how Conan Exiles actually plays, this is not your stop. What you do get is a genuinely wide wardrobe and a solid set of construction palettes. The Imperial East Pack brings Khitan architecture, jade-and-red warpaints, a dragon idol placeable, and hanging lamps you can craft at the dedicated Khitan Artisan Table. The Jewel of the West Pack pivots to Aquilonian grandeur, including the Black Dragon armor set, a harp, a councilor chair, and 25 placeables that make your fortress feel less like a murder shed and more like an actual seat of power. The Savage Frontier Pack goes full Pictish brutalism, with spiked structures and hide-heavy warrior gear that reads as genuinely menacing in PvP. Seekers of the Dawn is the standout for players who lean into eastern aesthetics: it adds Yamatai Warlord heavy armor, multiple katana variants (including the Yamatai Assassin's Blade and Yamatai Naginata), and crane and dragon warpaints that are some of the cleanest visual designs in the game's DLC catalogue. As an RPG-brained player, I'll admit I keep wanting this kind of content to mean something mechanically, a Khitan-trained swordsman who fights differently, an Aquilonian knight with a perk tree, something. It doesn't. These four packs are strictly about self-expression and base aesthetics. If you run a roleplay-heavy server, or you pour hours into base building and want your stronghold to look like a Hyborian world map instead of a generic stone box, the cultural variety here is genuinely useful. Each pack represents a distinct faction from Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age lore, so there is some world-building satisfaction in decking out your character and settlement to actually match the civilization you are roleplaying. For lore nerds, that layer of immersion has real value. For casual players or newcomers still learning the base game's survival systems, thrall mechanics, and religion choices, the Year 1 Bundle is low priority. The base game's existing armor and building options are not so thin that you'll feel underserved without it. Treat this as a late-game investment for veteran Exiles who have already wrung out everything vanilla has to offer and want more visual language to work with. Builders and roleplayers get the most mileage. Pure PvE or PvP players grinding the best stats will find nothing here they could not replicate with base-game gear.

Monika · Scout Team

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