Conan Exiles Enhanced launches May 5 on Steam as a free UE5 upgrade

Funcom has announced Conan Exiles Enhanced, a free upgrade for Conan Exiles on Steam that arrives May 5. According to the official post, this is a move to Unreal Engine 5 with visual upgrades, performance improvements, a reworked UI, and support for Steam Deck.

The upgrade is only confirmed for Steam right now. Funcom says there are no current plans to bring it to consoles, the Epic Games Store, or the Microsoft Store version, though those platforms could be considered later. The existing UE4 build will remain available on PC as Conan Exiles Legacy.

One of the bigger gameplay changes is that Exiled Lands and Isle of Siptah will be connected into a single experience for players who own the expansion. Funcom is also adding multiple character support, updates to crafting and building, and a refreshed mod dev kit.

The switch comes with a few catches. Players who want to stay on the old Legacy version will need to handle character migration ahead of time. There’s also a currency warning: Crom Coins won’t be usable on the UE4 PC version once Enhanced goes live because the Bazaar will be disabled there. Steam players moving to Enhanced will keep their Crom Coins, but anyone planning to stick with Legacy is being told to spend that currency before May 5.

Funcom says the upgrade is being made in collaboration with Inflexion Games, the Tencent-owned studio behind Nightingale. It also lands around Conan Exiles’ eighth anniversary.

If you play on private servers, or just want to avoid surprises on launch day, this looks like one of those updates worth reading the fine print on before it goes live.