{"title":"Inflexion Games","description":"\u003cp\u003eInflexion Games is an Edmonton, Alberta studio founded in 2018 by Aaryn Flynn, the former general manager of BioWare who led that studio from 2011 to 2017 across the later Mass Effect and Dragon Age years. Inflexion began life as the Canadian development arm of Improbable, the London technology company behind the SpatialOS multiplayer platform, and it drew much of its early leadership from BioWare veterans, including art director Neil Thompson. The studio's first project was revealed at The Game Awards in December 2021: Nightingale, a shared-world survival crafting game set in a gaslamp-fantasy Victorian age in which a catastrophe in the Fae portal network has scattered humanity across strange Realms, with the city of Nightingale standing as its last refuge. Players craft Realm Cards to shape the worlds they step into, then gather, build and fight their way through them alone or in co-op, all of it running on Unreal Engine 5. Early in 2022 Improbable sold the studio to Tencent, which made Inflexion a sibling of the many other development houses in the Chinese group's portfolio, Funcom among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNightingale entered Steam Early Access on February 20, 2024, and its first year showed a studio willing to rebuild in public: the launch required an always-online connection, an offline mode followed within months, and the Realms Rebuilt update of September 2024 replaced the original procedurally rolled progression with hand-authored story realms and a far clearer path through the game. That hands-on Unreal Engine 5 experience is what brought Inflexion to Conan Exiles Enhanced, the ground-up Unreal Engine 5 rebuild of Funcom's barbarian survival game, which the two Tencent-owned studios developed together and Funcom published as a free upgrade for existing owners. For players, Inflexion's work is worth following because of that lineage: a team led by people who shipped some of the most story-driven role-playing games of the 2000s and 2010s, now applying that sensibility to survival crafting, where atmosphere, companions and a world's internal logic count for as much as the crafting tree. The Conan Exiles Enhanced credit places the studio inside one of the genre's longest-running communities, while Nightingale's portal-hopping frontier continues to grow in the studio's own hands.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"conan-exiles-pc-download","title":"Conan Exiles Enhanced","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eConan Exiles Enhanced drops you into the Exiled Lands of Hyboria with nothing but the rags on your back and a debt to the barbarian who cut you down from the corpse tree. Funcom's open world survival game, now running on Unreal Engine 5, asks you to outlast the desert, carve a stronghold out of hostile ground and decide how far you will go to rule it: by steel, by sorcery, or by the towering avatar of a god.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSurvive a Land That Wants You Dead\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first days are about staying alive. Hunt for meat, find clean water, cook what you can and learn which plants heal and which ones poison. Heat and cold are real threats here, so you dress for the climate, light campfires in the north and seek shade in the south. When a sandstorm rolls across the dunes you need walls between you and it, and when you wander into darkened ruins the foul sorcery inside can corrupt you before you see it coming. Progression feels earned: every skill point and recipe takes you one step further from scavenger and closer to a barbarian who can hold ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBuild a Home, Then a Kingdom\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConan Exiles is one of the most flexible builders in the survival genre. Foundations, walls, ceilings and stairs snap together piece by piece, so a lean-to against a cliff can grow into a walled city with towers, gates and an arena in the center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eA modular building system\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eEvery structure is assembled from individual pieces across multiple material tiers, from sandstone to reinforced stone and beyond. Elevators, drawbridges, traps and palisades let you shape a base around the terrain instead of fighting it, and interior pieces turn a fortress into somewhere you actually want to live.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eThralls who work for you\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eKnock out the criminals and fighters of the Exiled Lands, drag them home and break their will on the Wheel of Pain. Once broken they become archers and fighters on your walls, crafters at your forges and tanneries, or entertainers who clear corruption from your body. A well-staffed base keeps producing while you are out exploring.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eDefenses that matter\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eOn PvP servers your walls are only as good as what stands behind them. Layer traps, place archers on the battlements and build in depth so an attacker with explosives and siege weapons has to pay for every meter they take from you.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCombat, Sorcery and the Gods Themselves\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFighting is action-oriented and combo-based. You dodge, block and time light and heavy attacks with swords, axes, daggers, spears and bows, and each weapon type has its own rhythm to master against monsters and rival players alike. Those willing to sacrifice part of their life force can walk a darker path: corrupt your body to wield sorcery, sacrifice thralls to summon demons and the undead, conjure darkness, take to the skies on winged monstrosities and call lightning down on your enemies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDevotion has its own rewards. Align yourself with a deity such as Derketo, goddess of lust and death, or Set or Mitra, bring sacrifices to their altar and eventually summon their colossal avatar. For a short time you walk as a god, crushing enemy buildings and defenders underfoot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003ePlay Alone, With Friends or on Your Own Server\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSingle-player and co-op let you explore the Exiled Lands at your own pace, with full access to the admin tools: adjust progression speed, spawn creatures, turn off avatars and act as dungeon master for your own game.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePersistent online multiplayer on public servers is where clans rise and fall, whether you prefer the tension of PvP raids or a PvE server focused on building and dungeon runs alongside other players.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHost your own server and set every rule yourself, then extend the game further with Steam Workshop mods or build your own content with the Conan Exiles Unreal Editor. Full controller support and Steam Achievements round out the package.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA World Worth Exploring, Rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Exiled Lands stretch from the southern desert and its rivers through the eastern swamp and jungle to the frozen mountains of the north, and you can climb almost anything along the way. Dungeons such as the Black Keep and the Dregs hold loot and the lore of the civilizations that fell here long before you arrived, and NPCs scattered across the map fill in the history for those who take the time to listen. With Unreal Engine 5 the whole game has been brought forward with reworked lighting, environments, characters and effects, smoother performance and a redesigned UI, so eight years of content plays as one cohesive world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConan spared your life for a reason. Take your first steps into the Exiled Lands and find out whether you were meant to survive them or to rule them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Funcom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33632114252,"sku":"PC_9591250956_DL_GL","price":20.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/files\/card-conan-exiles-enhanced-pc-steam-game.jpg?v=1789788334"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pjsgames.com\/collections\/inflexion-games.oembed","provider":"PJ's Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}