The Dune video game is Rust meets No Man’s Sky on the sands of Arrakis
Dune: Awakening is a survival game that has a lot of potential, and looks visually immaculate…
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The game begins with your character stranded on the sands of Arrakis. With no water and no Stillsuit, your first challenge, and one of the toughest in the game according to developer Funcom, is to find shelter and sustenance.
The battle to find water seems to be the biggest obstacle in the early game. While a small amount of water can be gained by eating the few remaining plant fibres that are scattered around the world, eating too many of them will cause the player to be sick. Stilgar would not be happy
The other way players can find water is by taking it from other players by force. While the exact scope of the player vs player action in the game hasn’t been nailed down, Funcom suggested that even from this early stage, players will be able to battle it out for the last few remaining drops of water.
Funcom later joked that more experienced players would fly Ornithopters down to the starting area and recruit low-level players into their legions with promises of water.
Skipping forward, players will then be able to build their own base. The base-building tech looks sophisticated, but it’s in the ways that Dune: Awakening seeks to skip over some survival game admin that is the most exciting. For example, if there’s a resource in any of your chests, you can access it directly from a fabricator. It doesn’t matter what is physically on your player. As long as the resource you need is in a chest that you own, you can craft the item.
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