Dune: Awakening, the highly anticipated survival MMO, was featured in a new gameplay breakdown during Gamescom Opening Night Live. Developed by Funcom, Dune: Awakening offers players a vast sandbox environment where they can engage in combat, construction, trading, and more.
The latest gameplay trailer showcased various interactions between players, including customization of appearances, socializing, building homes, and even trading building blueprints to create a unique player-driven economy.
In the world of Dune: Awakening, spice is the primary currency, and players will compete in Arrakis to gather this valuable resource. Players begin as a customizable nameless prisoner, embarking on a quest to ascend the social hierarchy of the desert planet Arrakis.
The trailer, featured below, highlighted iconic elements of the Dune universe, from massive sandworms to the Ornithopter. Players must navigate intense challenges such as sunstroke and heat exhaustion, requiring strategic decisions to survive the harsh desert environment. Aligning with other players or betraying them to ensure survival mirrors the complex dynamics of the series.
Players’ choice of weapons and loadout will influence their approach to combat scenarios, as demonstrated in the trailer with varied combat styles like sniping from cliffs or engaging in close-quarters combat with melee weapons.
Dune: Awakening is set to launch in early 2025 for PC, with release dates for PlayStation and Xbox platforms yet to be confirmed.
