The Brutal, Yet Bright Future of Conan Exiles

According to a press release sent out by Funcom today, gamers have purchased 500,000 copies in the first month that Conan Exiles was available on Steam Early Access, and that stat is punctuated even further by the fact that it also brought in over a million dollars’ worth of revenue in its first 60 minutes of going on sale. As a result, the company is investing another $5 to $10 million into the game’s development as it heads toward a full release in early 2018.

The team was also on hand to showcase the survival-focused RPG at GDC, and they’ve treated us to a 14-minute video demonstration from the show floor:

Check out the press release below for the full details:

HERE IS THE FUTURE OF CONAN EXILES

– Funcom sells nearly half a million units of Conan Exiles first month, plans to more than double the investment during Early Access –

– Full launch in Q1 2018, six major updates during Early Access, game coming for both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One –

Oslo, Norway – March 6th, 2017 – Funcom is excited to reveal the future of Conan Exiles, the studio’s open world survival game which entered into Early Access on January 31st this year. The game sold nearly half a million copies the first month and grossed a whopping 1 million USD the first sixty minutes after it went live on Steam. The entire development budget was recouped in less than one week. Today Funcom is thrilled to share with the community what the future has in store for Conan Exiles. Funcom is fully committed to making sure Conan Exiles has a successful Early Access period, and will be investing another 5 to 10 million USD into the development before final launch.

This investment will give players six major content updates, a Game Preview release on Xbox One in Q3 2017 and full launch on Playstation 4, PC, and Xbox One in Q1 2018.

• Siege Warfare: Players can attack each other’s settlements with powerful war machines, such as siege towers or trebuchets, and fling rotting corpses over the walls of their enemies to spread pestilence in their streets.
• The Purge: Hordes of NPC warriors will sweep down into the Exiles Lands and attack player settlements. Players must ready their defenses against this brutal attack, but can also go on the offensive and capture new thralls and strong gear.
• Mounts: You will be able to enjoy mounted combat on horses and capturing camels, rhinos or even elephants to be used for pack animals or crushing your opponents walls. Mounted combat will also make its way to Conan Exiles.
• Sorcery: Embrace the dark corruption of magic to summon demons or raise the undead to create an army of skeletons. Magic in the world of Conan is more than shooting fireballs out of your hands: it’s dark, terrible, and twisted.
• Settlement System: Create a living city, where you command your thralls to guard, patrol, craft, gather or trade based on your own schedules. Build roads, set up schedules for your thralls, and breathe life into your settlement.
• Highland Biome: An all new area expanding the existing map into the highlands, with new creatures, armors, religions and a temperature system. Explore vast forests and scale tall mountains in this rugged, weather-beaten part of Hyboria.

All content updates will be free to all Conan Exiles players.

For more details, check out our latest Development Blog over on www.conanexiles.com

“We are very excited to share with the community our plans for Conan Exiles going forward,” says Funcom Creative Director Joel Bylos. “With six major updates and two console releases, players will see Conan Exiles grow and evolve in the months ahead as we head towards full launch. We look forward to working directly with the community every step of the way and we will be putting out continuous patched in between the major updates to constantly better the experience.”

Funcom is also excited to be present on the show floor at PAX East in Boston, where gamers can drop by to play the game and chat with the developers. Funcom will also be handing out exclusive print copies of its custom Conan Exiles comic book produced by Dark Horse Comics.

You can learn more about Conan Exiles and see the latest updates from the developers on www.conanexiles.com For more information about Funcom, please visit www.funcom.com