Authentic Dune atmosphere and lore
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“as someone who read the book, this is incredibly detailed and really gets it right.”
Steam review · 49.2 h played ↗
Dune: Awakening
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Mostly Positive · 72%Mostly Positive · 72%Funcom2025Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Base Building
The verdict
A atmospheric, faithful Dune survival-crafter with great building, flight and worms, now far better in solo mode. Skip it if you hate grind, losing gear and bases, or buggy patches.
Great for
Dune fans and solo or co-op survival-crafters who enjoy atmosphere, base building and flying
Main risk
Losing gear or a base to worms, bugs or decay, plus grindy repetitive endgame
What changed in the last 30 days
166 recent reviews
Recent positive reviews praise the new single-player mode. Recent negatives cite a new patch causing crashes, long updates, vanished gear and wiped keybinds, plus BattleEye and no-pause complaints.
166 recent reviews
What players love
Great single-player mode
NEW · LAST 30 DAYSMentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Adding a solo mode was the best decision they could have made.”
Steam review · 76.7 h played ↗
Beautiful graphics and world
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“the graphics are gorgeous, there is fantastic base building full of awesome looking pieces and decorations”
Steam review · 36 h played ↗
Fun base building and crafting
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“The building is intuitive and forgiving.”
Steam review · 1772.1 h played ↗
Terrifying, tense sandworms
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Still scared the bejesus out of me.”
Steam review · 7.5 h played ↗
Runs well and optimized
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“Very well optimized game for older PCs like mine.”
Steam review · 7 h played ↗
What players complain about
Loss of gear or base to bugs and decay
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“it deleted my sub thief console instead which instantly deleted my entire base & everything inside it including resources.”
Steam review · 80.4 h played ↗
Grindy, repetitive, empty endgame
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Almost 30 h in and I can tell you its just about the most grind heavy game I've ever played.”
Steam review · 28.1 h played ↗
Bugs and broken quests
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“It's still bugged to hell and back.”
Steam review · 191 h played ↗
Always-online, BattleEye and server hurdles
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“I should *not* have to download Battle Eye if I *only* intend to play in single player mode!”
Steam review · 287.7 h played ↗
Crashes and performance problems
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“after some sort of update? hotfix? patch? my game runs like utter doggy doo doo buns, and crashes my PC”
Steam review · 31.1 h played ↗
Forced PvP and griefing in endgame
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“Fantastic game right up until the forced PVP.”
Steam review · 241.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support60 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 10 64-bit (or newer)
ProcessorIntel Core i5-7400 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) / AMD Radeon 5600XT (6 GB)
Storage60 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10 64-bit (or newer)
ProcessorIntel Core i7-10700K / AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (8 GB) / AMD Radeon 6700XT (12 GB)
Storage75 GB available space
OSWindows 10 64-bit (or newer)
ProcessorIntel Core i5-7400 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) / AMD Radeon 5600XT (6 GB)
Storage60 GB available space
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