However, it will be available to play on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.Dune: Awakening will be available to play on Microsoft Windows PC (via Steam), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S current-gen consoles (via their respective store pages).

Dune: Awakening hasn't received a release date yet. Other than the spice trade, players will need to handle the sand worms that live in Arrakis and the deadly sandstorms of the planet, in order to traverse the desert terrain of Arrakis.įuncom is no stranger to creating survivals, as they have previously made Conan Exiles, a survival game set in the world of Conan the Barbarian, surviving the brutality of Conan’s harsh world. Since it’s an MMO survival game based on Dune, spice will likely be a core component where players will essentially be running some kind of spice trade in and out of Arrakis. The Dune: Awakening trailer features Paul Atreides' iconic 'fear is the mindkiller' monologue from the Frank Herbert novels. The game titled ‘Dune: Awakening’, thrusts the player into the harsh and cruel world of Arrakis, where it seeks to combines hardcore survival gameplay with the social aspects of large, persistent online games, creating a unique, gritty, ambitious, open world survival MMO.Īnnounced during Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022, the trailer gives little details about the gameplay, though it looks absolutely stellar, with its atmosphere being faithful to Herbert's legendary novel, as seen in Denis Villeneuve’s Academy Award-winning adaptation. If a Bloodborne inspired Pinocchio or more details from Gotham Knights was not enough, Norwegian publisher Funcom has revealed their brand new project, an open-world gritty MMO set in the unforgiving world of author Frank Herbert’s Dune.

This year’s Gamescom is full of surprises.

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