About This Game

Dune: Awakening is an open world survival crafting game where you must survive and thrive on the most dangerous planet in the universe. 

Trapped. Alone. Lost in the desert with nothing but the clothes on your back.  

Avoid the roaming sandworms and seek shadows to stay out of the scorching sun. Extract water from blood and cling to life. Uncover the knowledge of the Fremen and study the Schools of the Imperium to expand your repertoire of abilities, weapons, and tools.  

Build a home to protect from the raging sandstorms, then expand your operations with machinery and lavish decorations to show off your increasing fortune and power.  

Take to the skies to map the vast, open world of Arrakis. Beyond the horizon lies an even bigger world to explore, from the bustling social hubs of Arrakeen and Harko Village, to the dangers of the Deep Desert with its massive spice blows and unburied treasures waiting to be discovered. 

Survival is only the beginning. Join the Atreides or the Harkonnen, rise through their ranks, and take part in political conflict by controlling the Landsraad, making decrees that impact every player in your world.  

Alone or together with friends, can you survive, thrive, and rise to power on Dune? 

“My planet, Arrakis, is beautiful when the sun is low.” – Chani

• SURVIVE by learning the ways of the Fremen. Seek the shadows to escape the scorching sun. Craft stillsuits and extract water from your enemies to stay hydrated. Build shelter to escape lethal sandstorms and always beware the sandworm.

• EXPLORE a vast, open world of beauty and danger. Glide, climb, and speed across Arrakis using iconic Dune tech such as ornithopters and suspensor belts. Visit the hubs of Arrakeen and Harko Village, bustling with other players to socialize and trade with.

• DISCOVER a shifting desert that offers infinite exploration. Coriolis storms reshape the Deep Desert, turning familiar ground into treacherous, unknown territory. Every week, players race to be the first to uncover new locations, dangers, and rewards.

“On Arrakis, we need to cultivate desert power.” – Duke Leto Atreides

• SANDBOX combat allows you to approach every situation differently using a wide arsenal of ranged and melee weapons, technology, abilities, and even vehicles. From humble beginnings to unthinkable strength, every step fuels your rise to greatness.

• MASTER one or all the Great Schools of the Imperium: Bene Gesserit, Trooper, Mentat, Swordmaster, and Planetologist. Use manipulation and trickery, poison and grenades, dart rifles and crysknives. And remember: the slow blade penetrates the shield.

• SPICE is the most valuable resource in the universe. Control, trade, and consume it to unshackle your potential and fuel new powers. Rise from a nameless survivor to ultimately summoning the desert’s greatest force: the sandworm Shai-Hulud himself.

“This is my desert. My Arrakis. My Dune.” – Baron Vladimir Harkonnen

• CREATE a persona as unique as your ambitions. Craft anything from Fremen stillsuits to Harkonnen ornithopters and fine Atreides furniture. Customize endlessly with emotes, transmog systems, and swatches that let you stand out in the desert.

• UNCOVER the truth behind the Fremen’s disappearance. As you survive, explore, and build your way to power on Arrakis, you will unravel an engaging storyline unlike anything seen in a multiplayer survival game before.

• BUILD anything from a temporary encampment to an impenetrable fortress with a robust, flexible building system. Convert your buildings into blueprints that you can sell to other players on the server-wide Exchange, along with anything you harvest and produce.

“Climb up. Rise. You’re one of us now. A life for a life.” – Stilgar

• UNITE or compete with other survivors – or choose to play alone. Dune: Awakening features a highly immersive and persistent online world shared with thousands of other characters and several hundred people playing concurrently. PvP is always optional.

• GROUP up with other players to delve into ancient Ecology Labs, collaborate creatively using the robust co-op building system, or simply visit the Arrakeen and Harko Village social hubs to grab a drink or trade on the Exchange.

• LEAD or follow, the choice is yours. Join or create a guild, swear allegiance to the Atreides or Harkonnen, and work together to secure their power in the server-wide Landsraad whose decrees impact every player on the server.

“It’s not that power corrupts, but that it’s magnetic to the corruptible.”

• RISE to power through the ranks of the Atreides or the Harkonnen. As you build reputation with your Great House, you will access unique faction rewards such as equipment, vehicles, and building pieces. Ultimately you can pledge your entire guild to their cause.

• CONTROL the spice, and you control Arrakis. The ever-shifting sands of the Deep Desert offers not only infinite exploration, but also infinite rewards. Here, players, guilds, and the Great Houses battle over massive spice blows to fuel their finances – and their ambitions.

• PVP is always optional. Participate in major ground-and-air battles in the Deep Desert or support the efforts from behind the frontlines through PvE activities like crafting to secure power in the Landsraad. Play politics and make decisions that impact the whole server.

Private Servers

You can play Dune: Awakening on an official server or a private server rented from a third-party provider. Every private server belongs to a World of other private servers, with each sharing social hubs and a Deep Desert. This means you can still enjoy Dune: Awakening's unique large-scale multiplayer mechanics even when playing on a private server.