Dune fans can be excited because there are not only new movies but also other media. A series is coming, and for gaming fans, the survival MMO Dune: Awakening is on its way, which also builds on the valuable spice. The Creative Director explains what can be done with this resource in a current interview.
What is Dune: Awakening?
- Dune: Awakening will be a mix of MMORPG and survival
- The game will be released for PC in early 2025, and later for consoles
- The game is developed by the creators of Conan Exiles
- It takes place in an alternate world where Paul Atreides was not born
Dune: Awakening is expected to offer many PvP and PvE mechanics. Despite the barren desert on the planet Arrakis, the most important resource in the universe, the spice, can be found there. Spice will also play an important role in the game, including for your player character.
MeinMMO editor Benedict Grothaus is already excited: Dune: Awakening previewed: The survival MMO offers exactly what I hoped for after Conan Exiles
You can watch the first gameplay here:
Abilities like in the movie
In a recent interview with PCGamer, Creative Director Joel Bylos talks about spice and what skills players can have with it. As a resource, spice is important for crafting, maintaining devices, and the economy. But like in the movie, you can also use spice for your own benefit.
Bylos explains that your character inhales too much spice, which enters your body. This has consequences.
When the player’s blood is saturated with spice, you can imagine how abilities change when you can see a little into the future. […] We have some of these effects in the game. I don’t want to reveal too much, but it will affect your abilities.
What exactly he means by seeing into the future
he does not specify. Like in the films, having visions of the future might not work in such a game. However, Bylos definitely finds Paul’s visions interesting. The team behind the game wants to explore this concept further.
Before Dune: Awakening, the studio worked on Conan Exiles, a survival game in the Conan universe. MeinMMO was able to discuss this with Creative Director Joel Bylos. The interview primarily focused on the lessons that could be learned from the predecessor game: “Taught me about the dynamics of players” – In an interview with Joel Bylos about Dune: Awakening and the influence of its predecessor
