Conan Exiles Enhanced Confirmed for PS5 and Xbox in Early 2027

Funcom confirmed on October 27, 2026 that Conan Exiles Enhanced — its Unreal Engine 5 rebuild of the decade-old open-world survival game — is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in early 2027. The console upgrade was announced alongside the PlayStation 5 debut of Aloft, a separate co-op sky-sailing survival game that Funcom also publishes, with both reveals posted together on the PlayStation Blog. Funcom has not locked in an exact release date for either game yet.

01What Conan Exiles Enhanced Changes

Conan Exiles Enhanced is a free visual and technical overhaul of the 2018 survival game, rebuilding it from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5 with help from Inflexion Games. According to Funcom's own site, the update brings upgraded environments, characters, lighting and particle effects, a redesigned interface, and broad performance and quality-of-life work across both the Exiled Lands and the Isle of Siptah map. The core game is unchanged underneath: you still wash up naked and crucified in the land of Hyboria, then gather, build, tame thralls and fight your way into a base capable of surviving other players on online servers. Enhanced just renders all of it in a newer engine. It first shipped on PC through Steam earlier in 2026 as a free swap for everyone who already owned the base game. The PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions bring that same overhaul to console for the first time, alongside the Legacy of the Giant-Kings story arc, which previously launched on PC.

02PS5 and Xbox Series X|S Release Window

Funcom's announcement sets the launch window as "early 2027" for both platforms, without a firm day yet. The studio says it will share a specific release date later. Conan Exiles has quietly become one of Funcom's longest-running live games — it launched in 2018 and has kept getting expansions and chapters ever since — and the Enhanced console versions are the clearest sign yet that the survival sandbox is staying on new hardware rather than being left behind on last-generation consoles. For a game this old to get a full engine swap, rather than a quiet sunset, says something about how much of Funcom's live-service revenue still comes from it.

03Free for Existing Owners, Isle of Siptah Stays Separate

Anyone who already owns Conan Exiles on PS4 or Xbox One gets the Enhanced version on PS5 or Xbox Series X|S at no extra cost, and the two console generations unlock each other too — buying the game on either platform gives you the other version for free. Previously purchased Bazaar store items and DLC also carry over automatically between the PS4 and PS5 versions, so cosmetics and expansions you already paid for don't need to be bought twice. The Isle of Siptah expansion remains a separate purchase on every platform and is not folded into the free console upgrade, so budget for it separately if you haven't picked it up yet.

04Aloft Joins the Console Lineup

Aloft, developed by Astrolabe and published on console by Funcom, launches on PS5 in early 2027 as well. It's a co-op survival game about turning floating islands into skyships, building a home among the clouds, and exploring an open sky alone or with friends. Funcom says the PS5 version will fold in every Early Access update released on PC since the game launched there — five major content drops that added wildlife, puzzles, combat improvements, glider customization and expanded exploration — plus the finished 1.0 experience, rather than shipping console players an earlier build. Pairing the two launches gives Funcom's PS5 slate a grounded, decade-old sandbox in Conan Exiles Enhanced and a newer, airier survival game in Aloft on the same day of announcements.

Funcom framed both console launches as part of the same push onto PlayStation 5, rather than two unrelated announcements that happened to land the same week.

“We're excited to bring two more of our open-world survival adventures to PlayStation 5 in early 2027. Soar the skies in Aloft, then visit the unforgiving Exiled Lands in Conan Exiles Enhanced.”Jarle Hrafn Grindhaug, Communications Manager, Funcom

05What to Watch For Next

With no firm date yet, the next milestones to watch are a release window narrowing to a specific month and, eventually, a PlayStation Store or Xbox listing going live for pre-orders. Funcom has a habit of pairing these console rollouts with a fresh content drop — the PC Enhanced launch came bundled with its own story arc — so expect more Conan Exiles news closer to the actual PS5 and Xbox Series X|S release.

Conan Exiles Enhanced's PS5 and Xbox Series X|S announcement trailer, released October 27, 2026.