Survival MMO Dune: Awakening Gets Release Window And Extensive Gameplay Look
The new Dune Awakening trailer, debuted at Gamescom Opening Night Live, shows off its survival gameplay and announces a release window of early 2025. The trailer offers a peak into the general arc of the game. You’ll start Dune: Awakening by creating your character and choosing their background, before crashing into the middle of the planet. Staying out in the desert is perilous. You can get sun stroke and heat exhaustion from standing in the sun and sandworms will detect you if you run on open ground.
The trailer then showcases taking out an NPC encampment. The game offers multiple strategies and approaches: you can get in close with a blade, attack with guns, block ranged fire with a shield, even deploy a hunter seeker drone to kill from afar. After the battle ends, you will loot equipment and resources from enemy corpses. For example, you can take enemies’ blood to purify into water back at base.
Build up your base with friends to unlock ways to utilize or refine the resources you gather out in the desert. After you’ve built the stronghold of your dreams, you can make blueprints of your base to recreate elsewhere on Arrakis or to sell to other players.