Funcom announced today that Conan Exiles has been dominating the #1 spot on Steam’s Global Top Seller List, selling 320K units in its first week. As such, all development costs have been recouped.
Funcom has released Chapter 1 of the Conan Exiles Age of Heroes update, which adds two fully-voiced compansion and living player settlements.
"Funcom are today very happy to announce that they have just dropped the fourth Chapter of “Age of War” for their open-world survival MMO game "Conan Exiles"." - Funcom.
The Nerd Stash: "The team behind Conan Exiles spills the bloody details on what players can expect from Age of War - Chapter 4."
This game is honestly just rust with a conan skin.
Not surprising it's "profitable" after 320K in sales. It looks like it was made over the course of a weekend. as a high school project.
It was probably profitable after a dozen copies sold.