Dune: Awakening, Funcom’s impending survival MMO, will permit players knowledge the universe of Frank Herbert’s legendary sci-fi novel collection firsthand, and that involves attempting to establish a house out in the extensive deserts of Arrakis.

Funcom has released a firstlook at how foundation-making will do the job in Dune: Awakening. Early on, Funcom claims, gamers will be in a position to declare a spot of land out in the game’s open earth and craft their 1st base. More sophisticated upgrades will unlock as players progress, and there will be plenty of choices for decorating the interior of households, with “distinct visual designs” afterwards starting to be readily available.

But if residing out in the deep desert was uncomplicated, every person would do it. Deadly sandstorms, and, of class, large sandworms, are a frequent menace, so players will need to have defenses, which include shields, to endure.

Funcom has stressed that Dune: Awakening is a survival recreation 1st, and as this sort of players will will need to consistently be on the lookout for prospects to harvest drinking water, seek shelter from the sun, and accumulate the most worthwhile material in the universe, the spice, in order to prosper. Thousands of players will share a server in Dune: Awakening, exactly where they are going to collaborate and contend in buy to reign supreme.

Final yr, Funcom disclosed that Dune: Awakening will take place in an alternate timeline to that of the novels, a person where gamers will be capable staff up with key figures like Leto Atreides (who dies in the to start with 50 percent of the first Dune novel) and be equipped to swear allegiance to the Dune universe’s numerous political factions.

There is certainly no word still on when particularly Dune: Awakening, which will take heavy visual inspiration from director Denis Villeneuve’s the latest Dune movies, will launch. Funcom held the game’s initially shut beta take a look at in December 2023, with additional exams prepared for early 2024. In other Dune video game news, the technique title Dune: Spice Wars recently still left early access, and Paul Atreides and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen even made a visitor overall look in Simply call of Obligation: Contemporary Warfare 3 and Warzone.

Dune: Part 2 will launch in theaters on March 1, 2024. Villeneuve has already expressed desire in directing a Dune: Component 3, which would adapt the 2nd novel in Herbert’s sequence, Dune: Messiah.