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ActionAdventureMassively MultiplayerRPGOpen World Survival CraftSurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldBase Building

Dune: Awakening

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story alone or with friends 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
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Release date
Jun 10, 2025
Store page updated
Sep 15, 2026
Price
$49.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

47.2/ 100

Based on 437 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 73% of 419
All time 🙂 Mostly Positive 71% of 78,471
“fantastic game until forced PvP”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.93
Progression -1.79
“too much grind and base maintenance taxes caused loss of progress” (63)

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Story & World
+1.49
World +3.25
“arrakis feels scary and atmospheric in early game” (97)

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Content Volume
-1.62
Volume +0.05

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Visuals & Sound
+3.06
Visuals +3.06
“Graphics are great and in line with the universe” (32)

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Multiplayer
-1.62
Playing together -0.58

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Fairness
-3.01
Balance -3.01

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Tech & Ops
-2.55
Developer support -1.82
“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
40%50%60%70%80%90%
Jun 5, 2025Sep 17, 2026
Reviews
per day · 390 reviews, peak 21/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

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.

Review languages

Languages of the 437 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English47%
  • Russian13%
  • German10%
  • French8%
  • Portuguese5%
  • Spanish4%
  • Other13%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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