Dune: Awakening

Awesome game, graphics are off the chain!

love the game play and how it makes me feel like im on Frank Herbert's Dune. love the base building and survival mechanics. love the testing stations and crashed ships which act as dungeons. i wish the overland map had better maps and navigation but its fine. i wish hagga basin was more connected to the rest of the world, like being able to walk to arakeen, but i understand the limitations. wish there were more flying patrols and i wish Crisknives were the strongest kind of knife but you couldn't repair them. if you're a Dune fan i highly recommend.

This survival game has captivated me more than any I've ever played. From how truthful it is to the source material to how fun the grinding in the game is. Needless to say I'm obsessed. If you enjoy survival games like Subnautica, and like the movies or books, you will NOT regret this purchase.

I've put a few hundred hours into Dune Awakening across two separate playthroughs and there's a lot to like. Atmosphere is great, base building is one of my favorite parts, exploration and moving around feels great too (gliding, grappling, using all the vehicles). Combat system works and can be fun, except when you have to go back to early areas to farm some component and you're way over geared for it. I first played at launch and put in a few hundred hours, taking my time up to Mark 5 gear, until there was nothing left to do but deep desert runs. I stayed away from the PvP zones after hearing how frustrating they were. After hearing about the patches making Deep Desert PvE friendly, I decided to give it another shot. I started with my original character and got back to where I left off pretty quick thanks to the 'welcome pack' offered to returning players. Built up a new base, but lost it all during a server transfer - I'd naively assumed the base I'd saved in the Base Replication tool was permanently stored, but it wasn't, and everything got wiped. Really frustrating, especially losing my first ever base layout, the one I'd spent hours and hours building in my first playthrough. So I built a new character, ground my way back up to Mark 5 gear, and figured I'd try for Mark 6 this time. I had forgotten how enjoyable the first stages of the game are. Now back to Mark 5 level, I started harvesting spice in the Deep Desert. Playing it safe makes it easy enough, but mostly it's just boring: wait for the cue that a worm's coming, take off, land, harvest, rinse and repeat. Everything takes forever solo (harvesting, the back and forth trips to DD, processing the melange) which is fine honestly, I don't mind taking my time. But then the glitches, man. Lost an entire haul of spice sand, my ornithopter and everything my character was carrying out of nowhere - no cue, a worm just passed by (underneath the spice field) and boom, here goes my ornithopter, collision glitch I guess. That was my cue to leave the game. Story's not a huge deal but worth mentioning - feels lazy, too "MMOy" for my taste, never really pulled me in. Not really a fan of the fan service either. Great game with a ton of potential, but as it stands I'd say for solos it's still only really worth playing through the first five gear tiers.

Its an alright game, for the most part its fun. Got a few annoying bits like a base taking weeks to a month to decay, it truly needs a way to claim bases that are unpowered even in pve locations. could make it so fief counsel have there own decay rate that goes down over 24 hours separate from the sand storms and it could go back up when powered. Playing it solo its a tone harder so make sure u have people to play with though most Iv seen in game are playing solo building amazing building, having to watch those decay is also saddening. The story itsself is enjoyable as long as u can find the story.

1,000 hours of playtime speak for themselves

Es macht einen sehr guten Eindruck. Nach ca. 8 Stunden entdeckt das man das Wasser aus den Blutbeuteln trinken kann .. Und ja wenn der Wurm auf dem Weg zum Wrack einen verschluckt ist alles weg .. bin dann aussen rum vom Handelsposten los. Menschen also echte Spieler denen ich begegnet bin waren sehr aggressiv. Nach ca. 17 Stunden meine Basis sieht besser aus und hat das wichtigste. Habe keine Angst mehr vor Wasser Verlust und immer genug dabei. Hatte eine Stadt besucht und dort Geld verdient mit Aufgaben. (Wasser verliert man in der Stadt gar nicht) Sand Bike konnte ich bauen und herum fahren. Spiele jetzt mit Game Pad das ist viel besser als mit Tastatur und Maus. Bin aber immer noch ganz am Anfang.