Dune: Awakening
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Critic Reviews for Dune: Awakening
Dune: Awakening is a harsh survival game, an intriguing RPG, and a fierce open world PvP game all in one. Somehow, it pulls it off.
An engrossing survival and crafting game with flawed but engaging endgame systems.
Dune: Awakening is an excellent survival MMO that brilliantly captures life on Arrakis, usually to its benefit.
Dune: Awakening thrives in atmosphere, worldbuilding, and survival depth, even if its combat and grind somewhat drag behind its setting and systems.
If you are a huge fan of Dune, it's going to be easy for you to overlook those issues. If you're not, or just have a passing interest in the lore, you may find it's just too difficult to get into. It's a game that is capable of fantastic moments, marred by irritations and a feeling of bloat that ultimately holds it back from being truly great.
Funcom's survival MMO delivers on the fantasy of the Dune universe but stumbles in the endgame.
Dune: Awakening has impressed me at every turn. Stunning cinematics showcase an immersive story inspired by Dune's award-winning lore and set the scene for a thrilling adventure, focused on exploration, survival, base-building, and politics. In a time full of unfinished, bug-ridden game launches, Dune: Awakening is setting the bar higher for what the release of video games should be.
Dune: Awakening is exactly the type of game the industry needs more of: ambitious, respectful of its source material, and willing to take real creative risks. It's not perfect, and it's definitely not for everyone, but for those who connect with its vision, it offers a genuinely unique experience. If you're looking for a casual survival game you can play an hour here and there, this isn't your game. But if you want to lose yourself in one of the most convincing and complex virtual worlds ever created, Arrakis is waiting for you. Funcom has created something special here: a game that honors both Frank Herbert and the survival genre, and sets new standards for what ambitious MMOs can achieve when developers truly understand their source material.
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Industry Coverage
Dune: Awakening Players Are Tired Of All The "No Life Campers" In PvP, But They Have A Solution: PvE Exclusive Servers
"I had my taste of the Deep Desert yesterday and I am happy to NOT RETURN for Tier 6 materials."
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“It’s Like We Regressed Ten Years”: One Dune: Awakening Area Is Hated By The Game’s Community
"They Managed To Take Something Described As A Lifeless Desert And Truly Deliver On That."
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Dune: Awakening Dev Responds to PvP Problems
Funcom, the developer of Dune: Awakening, responds to player complaints about the state of adversarial PvP in the online survival game.
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Dune: Awakening Dev Reveals That They're Working To Fix The Most Annoying PvP Tactic "ASAP"
Orni-stomping may soon be a thing of the past in Dune: Awakening.
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