Powering the future of Bohemia's games

Enfusion has taken some of the concepts and ideas that made the RV/Enforce engines unique and built upon them using up-to-date technology. More specifically, Enfusion was inspired by RV's ability to simulate large open worlds and support user moddability and has incorporated both of these key strengths.

Compared to RV, however, Enfusion is a lot more flexible and significantly more user-friendly for both developers and users – characteristics it’s inherited from the Enforce engine.

Unlike RV and Enforce, Enfusion is a fully multiplatform engine with an extensive online backend. As a result, it can make games run smoothly and look great across PCs and consoles, online or off.

DayZ was indeed the first game we built with parts of the Enfusion engine - specifically with earlier versions of the Enfusion renderer (the software that draws all the graphics), as well as the Enfusion animation system and the Enforce scripting language.

At the time of DayZ's launch out of Early Access, however, many things were still missing to make the engine package complete, particularly some of the tools necessary for building game worlds and creating game assets. That’s why DayZ remained a hybrid of old and new technology.

Games created with Enfusion in the future will not contain any legacy technology modules and will be built on a standalone branch of the new and significantly more developed Enfusion Engine.

They don’t have to but they can as the engine runs on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. Enfusion-built games don't have to be "ported" and can be developed for all three platforms at the same time while sharing a common code base and assets.

We built our own engine to make sure we could develop our games exactly the way we want to. For example, we want to work with technology that allows us to create incredibly authentic open world terrains and nothing available at the moment satisfies our needs.

Another reason is because most of our current games share a very distinct platform approach compared to a more standard "closed product" approach. In other words, we want to give our players and creators an open platform that offers them the same set of powerful tools that our developers use.

The team working on the core technology is comprised of roughly 30 engineers and programmers of various specializations. While we’ve intentionally kept the team lean, we're always looking for skilled reinforcements. Check out our current job openings!

The entire Enfusion toolset in its current shape and form is now available as part of Arma Reforger, and has entered Early Access on Steam on May 17, 2022. Arma Reforger is a first glimpse at the future of Enfusion games, and the first step on our road to Arma 4.

Developing the Enfusion engine with the aim to deliver Arma 4 is Bohemia's top priority at the moment. Stay tuned to our social media channels and subscribe to the Bohemia Newsletter to stay up to date!