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Conan: The Black Pyramid Pulls Robert E. Howard’s Heroes Across Time
Conan is no stranger to monsters and sorcery, but his next game is dragging several of Robert E. Howard’s other heroes into the nightmare with him.
Publisher Grindstone and developer Games Farm have revealed Conan: The Black Pyramid, an action roguelite RPG coming to PC via Steam in 2027. Unveiled during the Golden Joystick Awards, it combines sword-and-sorcery combat with cosmic horror, a shifting labyrinth and two-player online co-op.
Conan will not be fighting alone. Five playable characters are planned, with Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes joining the Cimmerian among the confirmed roster. The Black Pyramid provides the excuse to bring characters from different parts of Howard’s work together, bending space and time as it pulls warriors into its changing halls.
The Black Pyramid Changes With Every Run
Each descent in Conan: The Black Pyramid takes players through ancient ruins, ruined kingdoms and occult chambers pulled from different eras, with new routes, combat possibilities and story events appearing between runs.
Combat varies between characters, covering melee attacks, swordplay, ranged gunfire and magic. Dodges and timed parries can stagger enemies before brutal executions, while weapons, relics and status effects give players different ways to shape an encounter.
Buildcraft goes further through Warrior Memories, which alter each hero’s weapons and abilities, alongside ancient artefacts and upgradeable Combat Masteries. Permanent progression also carries between attempts through Wakestones.
An additional risk-and-reward system is built around dice in Conan: The Black Pyramid. Players collect them while exploring the Pyramid and can spend them to improve their immediate loot results, or hold onto them in the hope of earning something better deeper into the run.
The structure puts the game alongside a growing number of games finding different approaches to cooperative roguelite progression, including Shadowstone’s turn-based take on repeatable co-op runs.
Conan Can Bring a Friend Into the Pyramid
The entire adventure can be tackled alone or with another player through two-player online co-op. Both players retain individual rewards and progression, letting different character and build combinations be tested without one player sacrificing their own advancement.
Games Farm says the focus is much closer to a hands-on action RPG than its previous horde-survival work, with every dodge, parry and execution directly controlled by the player.
That previous work also gives the announcement an interesting connection. Games Farm and Grindstone already brought Conan into Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel through a Stygia DLC, and the developers say that experience left them wanting to do more with Howard’s world.
Playtest Sign-Ups Are Already Open
Conan: The Black Pyramid is scheduled to launch on PC via Steam in 2027, with console versions planned to follow later. No console platforms or timing have been announced yet.
Players can already request access to the upcoming playtest through Steam, with participants admitted in waves as Games Farm gathers feedback.
For Games Farm, the Black Pyramid offers considerably more room than simply giving Conan another dungeon to conquer. By pulling Howard’s heroes together across different eras, it has a structure capable of turning the writer’s wider catalogue into one very strange crossover.
