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Rise from survival to greatness and challenge the power of an Imperium in Dune: Awakening, a multiplayer survival game on a massive scale. Survive the sandworm, craft your ornithopter, build a fortress, and ascend to power on an open world Arrakis shared with hundreds of other players.
Dune: Awakening is a open world survival craft, massively multiplayer and third person game
developed and published by Funcom.
Released on June 10th 2025 is available only on Windows
in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian.
It has received 23,369 reviews of which 20,361 were positive and 3,008 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 49.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Dune: Awakening into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit (or newer)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) / AMD Radeon 5600XT (6 GB)
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 60 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD required
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Fairly mixed, but leaning towards positive. The game does a good job presenting Dune in a modern game. The visuals, sound overall environments are solidly good. Base building and crafting is good enough for a survival game, with a decent balance and both containing and missing various QoL features. Voice acting is on point, and the NPCs do their job of being quest givers with quirky personalities, albeit the story itself is more leaning into being an exposition piece about the Dune universe, less about presenting a captivating narrative. The gameplay loop, initially, is a pretty great mix of exploration, survival, crafting, building and combat. It just clicks, and works. At some point, you figured out how the NPCs operate, though, and at that point combat becomes trivial. Ranged enemies do not understand line of sight, and will always aim center of mass even if you're peeking around a corner. Melee enemies are more of a threat, but limited by the fact you can freeclimb onto any obstacle (which they don't). Later tiers and areas scale up the NPC's health pools and damage, but outside of very few exceptions the approach to fighting them remains the same, just taking longer. But, after all, PvE is just the leveling path to the PvP endgame content... which doesn't really exist, or work. There's virtually no ground PvP combat, because the Deep Desert pretty much forbids ground traversal, so everything is done with Thopters. Which means almost all PvP is just thopters exchanging rockets. And if you *do* end up in a rare instance of ground PvP combat by coming across a player inside of a PoI... you immedeately enter a stalemate as killed players can instantly respawn at the entrance of said PoI (with some neglegible durability damage). But hey, it's still fun to fly around the Deep Desert and just enjoy the vast nothingness, as you have a sight range reaching kilometers, and a render distance for objects of 400m. There's also spice to harvest so you can... wait, *cannot* interact with the Landsraad, because it takes a guild of 6 people less than 5 hours to lock down all of the house votes that became available on a given day. And then there's features like water/fuel on a world-map, which said resources being completely independent from their namesakes on your person/vehicle, auto-refreshing whenever you enter the world map, and with neither ever coming close to actually running out whilst you traverse it, making the entire system deprecated on launch. Or the ability to survey the deep desert and craft charts, that you can then try to sell on one of the least user-firendly player-trade-hub implementation's I've seen, until you realize that there's 81 deep desert sectors and barely 20 slots to offer items for sale, and that it's made all redundant by the random guy who already posted screenshots of the deep desert map on the internet. It's utterly frustrating to see a game, after having such a promising intro, prove all the haters and doomsayers right. And it *really* doesn't help that you also frequently have beta players chiming in, mentioning how these are all issues pointed out months ago, but not fixed regardless. So, why is this a positive review? Because, in the end, I still got good 60 hours of singleplayer content out of the Hagga Basin. It's a decent action survival game set in the Dune universe, but whether it will ever be worth a long-term investment into play is very uncertain. The devs seem motivated, if nothing else, but the number of pointless or gimmicky game mechanics seems to hint that they may be too focussed on pursuing a vision of the game that just doesn't work out in practice. Overall rating: 7/10 Good environment and setting, mediocre-to-passable execution, mostly dropping the ball on anything that is player-interaction or lategame.
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Very immersive game. you can cook a well-done steak on your GPU while you play and the hot blasts of air from your PC fans truly make you feel like you are in the desert. keep a bag of sand by your desk and periodically toss handfuls of it into the air to really complete the experience :)
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Normally not a fan of survival games and normally don't write reviews, but I'm gonna make an exception for this one. From gathering to combat to base building to something as simple and stupid as managing my water or deciding what time of day I should attempt to make a trek across the desert, this game really makes me feel like John Dune.
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It's a good game with a ton of content, comparable to anything else in the Survival / Craft / Base Building genre. Anyone who thought it was going to be more than that or like shatter the notion of the genre entirely is foolish and had their expectations wrong from the get-go. If you've played Conan Exiles, Valheim, Enshrouded, Rust, or anything like it - you probably know what you're in for. The difference is that it's got the Dune IP and a variety of QOL features. It is missing SOME of these (namely more of the tools need to be merged - there's far more tools required for specific jobs that your hotbar can hold), but overall it is a good survival / craft game that has an obvious endgame unlike many of those other sandbox games. Dune has sandbox elements, but it's got structured ones too. The quests, voice acting, and writing are all good. It also has MMO elements in the form of the Deep Desert and Trade Hubs. It's broadly a remix of a lot of these elements, even if the remix of these things results in some rough edges in places. The roughest part is probably that the netcode is very weak. There's a non-trivial amount of latency present at all times between you and other players. Because a lot occurs client-side, you won't really feel this alone, but when you're with others, it becomes more noticable. Additionally the grind does ramp up around midgame and this is where the perma-loss of the Worm can REALLY cause frustration. Once you're experienced, it rarely becomes an issue, but the chance of losing it all is always there, and when you do, it's extremely punishing to lose your max tier tools, armor, weapons, everything. Helps to have backups and helps to have friends. Solo you CAN do everything. But this game is really best with friends. You'll REALLY start to feel the grind trying to get your first ornithopter solo resource-wise. Again, a team of 4 could probably get enough to craft one in one trip to the rift. Alone? Oh boy...expect a good number of hours. Ultimately easily worth the price in today's gaming environment.
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My father loves the dune universe. His read all the books since the 80s. He would be proud to see me wasting my life on this game.
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Dune: Awakening is currently priced at 49.99€ on Steam.
Dune: Awakening is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 49.99€ on Steam.
Dune: Awakening received 20,361 positive votes out of a total of 23,369 achieving a rating of 8.53.
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Dune: Awakening was developed and published by Funcom.
Dune: Awakening is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Dune: Awakening is not playable on MacOS.
Dune: Awakening is not playable on Linux.
Dune: Awakening is a multi-player game.
Dune: Awakening features PvP mode where you can test your skills against other players.
There is a DLC available for Dune: Awakening. Explore additional content available for Dune: Awakening on Steam.
Dune: Awakening does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Dune: Awakening does not support Steam Remote Play.
Dune: Awakening is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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23,241
Developer
Funcom
Publisher
Funcom
Release
10 Jun 2025
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