Tuesday, June 10th 2025
Dune: Awakening is Out Now
Developer and publisher Funcom is proud to announce that Dune: Awakening is now available on Steam! The time has come to rise from survival to greatness and challenge the power of an Imperium in what is not only the biggest Dune game ever made, but also one of the most ambitious survival games to date.
Those who bought the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition have had the opportunity to play the in the 5-day head start that began on June 5th. During that time, Dune: Awakening saw 117,087 people play at peak concurrency on Steam, a number that is expected to soar even higher now that the floodgates are open and the pre-order phase is concluded.
Dune: Awakening currently holds an 89% user rating on Steam.
While PC players can dive into Dune: Awakening today, Funcom has also confirmed that the game will be coming to PlayStation and Xbox. Console release is expected sometime in 2026.
Dune: Awakening follows a classic business model: buy once and own it. Players can choose to purchase optional DLCs, but the game is not in Early Access, and it features no subscription fees or microtransactions.
Last week, Funcom premiered the game's launch trailer during the live Summer Game Fest show. Today, they've released a new supercut trailer that brings together highlights from earlier trailers into one celebratory video to mark the June 10th launch.
Dune: Awakening is a large-scale multiplayer survival game set on the unforgiving planet of Arrakis, inspired by the imaginative universe created by Frank Herbert and brought to life by Denis Villeneuve and Legendary Entertainment's award-winning movies. Players must endure scorching sun, deadly sandstorms, and ever-present sandworms. They'll craft everything from weapons and armor to ground cars and ornithopters, while advancing in both personal and political power. Players can align with the Atreides or Harkonnen to participate in activities that influence the shared world. Bridging survival and MMO gameplay, Dune: Awakening features expansive multiplayer systems where hundreds of players coexist—trading, battling, and navigating political intrigue across persistent servers.
Also available now is the Dune: Awakening Season Pass, which includes the Wildlife of Arrakis DLC. This pack features four in-game statues celebrating some of the planet's most tenacious creatures: the sandworm, chiroptera, kulon, and Muad'Dib.
The remaining three DLCs included in the Season Pass are scheduled for release in Q4 2025, Q1 2026, and Q2 2026. In addition, Funcom will provide free updates that bring new content, features, and enhancements to the game.
Dune: Awakening is available now on Steam.
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Those who bought the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition have had the opportunity to play the in the 5-day head start that began on June 5th. During that time, Dune: Awakening saw 117,087 people play at peak concurrency on Steam, a number that is expected to soar even higher now that the floodgates are open and the pre-order phase is concluded.
While PC players can dive into Dune: Awakening today, Funcom has also confirmed that the game will be coming to PlayStation and Xbox. Console release is expected sometime in 2026.
Dune: Awakening follows a classic business model: buy once and own it. Players can choose to purchase optional DLCs, but the game is not in Early Access, and it features no subscription fees or microtransactions.
Last week, Funcom premiered the game's launch trailer during the live Summer Game Fest show. Today, they've released a new supercut trailer that brings together highlights from earlier trailers into one celebratory video to mark the June 10th launch.
Dune: Awakening is a large-scale multiplayer survival game set on the unforgiving planet of Arrakis, inspired by the imaginative universe created by Frank Herbert and brought to life by Denis Villeneuve and Legendary Entertainment's award-winning movies. Players must endure scorching sun, deadly sandstorms, and ever-present sandworms. They'll craft everything from weapons and armor to ground cars and ornithopters, while advancing in both personal and political power. Players can align with the Atreides or Harkonnen to participate in activities that influence the shared world. Bridging survival and MMO gameplay, Dune: Awakening features expansive multiplayer systems where hundreds of players coexist—trading, battling, and navigating political intrigue across persistent servers.
Also available now is the Dune: Awakening Season Pass, which includes the Wildlife of Arrakis DLC. This pack features four in-game statues celebrating some of the planet's most tenacious creatures: the sandworm, chiroptera, kulon, and Muad'Dib.
The remaining three DLCs included in the Season Pass are scheduled for release in Q4 2025, Q1 2026, and Q2 2026. In addition, Funcom will provide free updates that bring new content, features, and enhancements to the game.
Dune: Awakening is available now on Steam.
6 Comments on Dune: Awakening is Out Now
Closed select test China
Closed select test Everyone Else
Closed test for influencers in the summer
Closed test in China that ran for six+ weeks starting around September I believe
Closed test into this year
Questing markers are simply wrong sometimes one example I was doing a kill quest that had 4 locations but it kept telling me to go to second location instead of the quest hand in location. No NPC's have names you literally have to remember them yourself after introduction this will get very tedious as time goes on and more areas open up.
Enemies run at same speed as you so it's impossible to escape instead your running around hoping to stumble across other player's that will attack and peel off enemies. No instant heal you must stop if your low health you may as well just die since enemies follow you for ever or it feels like it.
Having to remake tools feels clunky and is already getting boring as is savaging for the same node's over and over I've played these type of games before and they are ok but this doesn't feel fleshed out
Honestly I was so excited for this game but the systems, combat and questing all feel off and not finished my biggest regret is not following my gut and refunding it.