Six years after its announcement and exactly sixty years after Dune’s publication as a book, Dune: Awakening has escaped its closed testing trenches and has now fully released into the Known Universe.

Dune: Awakening puts you on the desert world of Arrakis with a quest that sounds simple, at least initially. Your task is to find the Fremen, but when you make a crash landing and attract unwanted ...

When I first heard of Dune: Awakening, I wasn’t quite clear on what it was. Is it an MMO? Is it a survival game? Is it an open world singleplayer RPG? The answer to all of those questions is yes. As ...

Dune: Awakening is the latest game to expand upon the rich world of Arrakis, and it’s now been out long enough for players to have a decent feel for it. Unfortunately, that also means that the players ...

Dune Awakening only officially launched earlier today, and it already seems to be a hit. A combination of survival games like Valheim or Enshrouded with an MMO on the scale of World of Warcraft or ...

Miller Reynolds is a Writer at DualShockers specializing in news, reviews, guides, interviews, and lists. He began covering games professionally in 2025, bringing a journalism background and more than ...

Dune Awakening is a survival MMO from the creators of Conan: Exiles. It aims to adapt the iconic series of sci-fi books, giving players the challenge of surviving on Arrakis, the most dangerous planet ...

Miller Reynolds is a Writer at DualShockers specializing in news, reviews, guides, interviews, and lists. He began covering games professionally in 2025, bringing a journalism background and more than ...

It will hopefully come as no surprise that I don't have a Dune: Awakening review ready yet. The "head start" launch of Funcom's survival MMO was only a few days ago—full launch is today—and even ...

Much like the hell-hot, hotly-contested desert planet of Arrakis, Funcom’s Dune: Awakening arrived and brought its idea of what it wanted to be, met others’ ideas of what it is, and faces another of ...

Though it eventually does become repetitive, its endgame lacks direction, and its strict adherence to the source material is sometimes an Achilles' heel, Dune: Awakening nonetheless manages to ...