Dune Awakening promises to blend the best elements of sandbox survival games with the social aspect of massively multiplayer games. Or at least that's Funcom's intention. Like other games, it has battles, experience points, a crafting system as well as a base building system.
Players will be able to shape their identity and build their chances of survival, from deep character customization to skills and abilities. Then they can search the deserts for massive spice blasts to harvest the most valuable substance in the universe. Furthermore, they will be able to create a guild and grow it into a House Minor by allying with one of the Major Houses.
Dune Awakening will be powered by Unreal Engine 5 and will take full advantage of both Nanite and Lumen. As NVIDIA has also revealed, the game will support DLSS 3 when it releases.
Dune Awakening is currently targeting an early 2025 release date on PC. Unfortunately, we don't have an exact date for when it will be released.