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ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerRPGOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldBase Building

Dune: Awakening

Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe. Just remember: the sandworm always comes.

Developer: Funcom
Publisher: Funcom
Franchise: —
Release date: Jun 10, 2025
Store page updated: Sep 17, 2026
Price: −50% ~~$49.99~~ $24.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

47.2/ 100

Based on 437 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating

Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 74% of 504

All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 71% of 78,606

“fantastic game until forced PvP”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

-1.16

Progression -1.79 · Leveling, unlocks and gear — is growth rewarding or a grind?

“too much grind and base maintenance taxes caused loss of progress” (63)

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Story & World

+2.41

World +3.25 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is

“arrakis feels scary and atmospheric in early game” (97)

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Content Volume

-1.07

Volume +0.05 · How much there is to play, including endgame, for the price

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Visuals & Sound

+2.90

Visuals +3.06 · Graphics, art style, and animation

“Graphics are great and in line with the universe” (32)

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Multiplayer

-1.26

Playing together -0.58 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

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Pricing & Fairness

-2.65

Balance -3.01 · Whether classes, weapons, and builds are evenly matched

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Tech & Support

-2.02

Developer support -1.82 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players

“every patch moves needle away from fun, alienated by changes” (31)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time

since launch, by week · major update

Jun 5, 2025Sep 17, 2026

Reviews

per day · 497 reviews, peak 78/day

Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by week. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the week before and after.