Dune: Imperium

This is a good game and I´ve played it a lot. However, YOU ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT BUY THIS GAME anymore, since they removed the possibility of playing ranked games since the release of Dune Imperium Uprising - which is of course an effort to boost the sales of Uprising by making the regular game borderline useless. If you buy this plus expansions now for 40+ euros, all you get to do is play against bots. Yes, there are normal games you can play against real people if they happen to queue the same time as you do, but they will leave the game the instant they realize they are not winning and then you play against bots anyway. So just be warned: if you buy this, you are getting scammed. And you wouldn´t even have a possibility to know it, since DIre Wolf, to my knowledge, haven´t published a single announcement regarding this issue.

As much as I like this, it has a fatal flaw playing in async mode. I have tried to play probably 20 games with my daughter and only completed about 3. It replaces you with a bot if you don't make a move within a set period of time. If playing with somebody you know, you should be able to control this similar to how BGA deals with it. I have reached out to the developers and they just restate the function and offer no help. I purchased 2 android and a steam copy and now they are useless for my daughter and me...very frustrating!

I bought Dune Imperium and Rise of Ix and enjoyed playing ranked games. Now that Immortality has come out, I cannot play ranked games anymore. Asking the customers to pay for the Immortality DLC just to be able to play ranked games is a legal notion called blackmail. I cannot believe Dire Wolf treats it's customers this way! I am appalled. I will never pay for content I don't like, need and will never play. I paid for the content I want to play, but am locked out. Shame on you.

Нет русского языка, а украинский язык есть. Так совпало? На самой то Украине сколько украиноговорящих разработчикам конечно "всё равно". Мерзость.

The core game is fun for a few sessions, especially when playing with good friends. It works well as lighthearted fun strategy game without taking things too seriously. The game has a nice mix of worker placement and deck-building. The digital version is easy to learn since it has a well-explained tutorial Howver, over time, the game feels “solved.” The most optimal moves, cards, and strategies are already known. Experienced players often take the same actions every game, because some choices are simply stronger than others. This makes many matches feel repetitive. Because it is a digital adaptation of a board game, there will be no balance patches to fix these issues, improve weaker strategies or nerf no-brainer actions which are just too good. so it has the balance version equivalent of a 1.0 day 1 release videogame. How many of these do you know which are perfectly balanced and dont need any additional patches? you know the answer. There is a lot of randomness that can decide the winner when all players know what they are doing. Things like: - which cards you draw - which cards appear in the market - combat rewards - intrigue cards etc. These factors will have the biggest impact on the result. Another frustrating point is that matchmaking is not available if you do not own all expansions, its not nice if you dont want to commit to all expansions right away. while this game can be enjoyable for a few casual games with friends, the long-term experience suffers especially from solved strategies & huge randomness. Considering the price tag, I cant recommend it.

It is absurd that a social board game like this does not have offline multi-player pass-and-play support. Otherwise it is a great deckbuilding game. I own the physical version, but I just wish they would support offline multiplayer in the digital version like Ark Nova does... Tough sell without that feature.

Dune: Imperium is not just a board game—it is a meditation on power, politics, and the subtle currents that shape human destiny. Like Herbert’s novels, it thrives in the spaces between action and reflection, forcing players to balance ambition with restraint, and strategy with foresight. At its core, the game is an elegant fusion of deck-building and worker placement, yet what makes it remarkable is how these mechanics evoke the essence of Dune itself. Every decision feels layered with meaning: when you commit an agent to a faction, you are not merely seeking victory points—you are pledging loyalty, courting danger, and weaving yourself deeper into the fabric of a fragile political order. When you deploy troops, you are gambling lives for spice and survival, knowing that in this universe, war is never simple, never clean. What elevates Dune: Imperium is how it captures the philosophy of Herbert’s world. Patience and subtlety are rewarded. Rash aggression can yield quick gains, but true mastery lies in timing, in anticipating the ebb and flow of power. The Bene Gesserit do not win by strength, but by whispers. The Fremen do not triumph by numbers, but by conviction. The game reflects these truths, not as theme pasted over mechanics, but as an organic whole. Even conflict itself, the climactic clashes each round, are tinged with inevitability and tragedy. You rarely win without sacrifice, and you rarely lose without learning. It mirrors Herbert’s reminder that power is never absolute, that victory is temporary, and that survival often comes at a cost. Playing Dune: Imperium feels like stepping into the philosophical duel between fate and free will. You are never fully in control—luck, timing, and the shifting alliances of your opponents shape the outcome—but your choices still matter profoundly. That tension is where the game finds its brilliance. In the end, Dune: Imperium is more than a competition; it is an exploration. It asks: what does it mean to lead? What is the price of ambition? And perhaps most hauntingly, in a desert where water and trust are scarce, what are you willing to sacrifice for the chance to shape the future? Like the novels that inspired it, this is a game that lingers with you long after it ends. It is not just entertainment—it is a small taste of Arrakis, distilled into cardboard and ink, yet vast with meaning.

Only after buying the base game and wanting to give it a go i found out that you cannot play ranked unless you have all the DLCs. Is this information available anywhere?

Absolutely amazing! at least with the expansions. It was great as a base game. But my ADD got the best of me and I got a little bored. With the 2 add on expansions Im back to playing and putting in some serious hours into this game. The expansions just add so much more to do. I love board games like this but trying to get 4 people together IRL as an adult seems to come with some difficulty. especially when you dont know anyone nerdy enough to sit around and play a board game.. Only thing i wish they would add is maybe some sort of campaign mode. At least they have the challenge mode. highly recommend this