"Dune: Awakening" opens the "Golden Channel", with more than 189,000 online players

Jun 24 2025

  The new trailer was praised by the media!

  On June 20, the large-scale open world multiplayer survival game "Dune: Awakening" developed by Funcom was praised for its popularity after it was launched. It has received 85% "specially positive reviews" on the Steam platform with more than 28,700 reviews, with a Metacritic score of 80 and an OpenCritic score of 81. Farewell to the spice collection, let’s watch the new praise trailer!

  On the first weekend of its launch, "Dune: Awakening" broke the peak concurrent player record three times, exceeding 189,000 people, significantly surpassing its previous work "Conan Exile" with 53,400 people, and has become the fastest-growing game in Funcom's history. Since its first release, "Dune: Awakening" has continued to be among the most popular games in Steam.

  As enthusiastic feedback from players, media and content creators exploded on the Internet, the core highlights of the game have received great attention. By drawing audio-visual inspiration from the epic films of Dennis Villeneuve and Legendary Pictures, the development team carefully set a parallel timeline to complete a faithful restoration of the Dune universe. VGMAG, which scored 8.5/10 for "Dune: Awakening", called it "the best way to experience Erracos"; 4P gave a 9/10 rating and commented, "I don't know which game world is more dune-like than "Dune: Awakening". For those who have been waiting for years to explore the open and lively Eracos, Dune: Awakening lives up to expectations.

 What captures the media is not just a real immersion world. IGN gave Dune: Awakening 8/10; Eurogamer gave 4/5 and praised its "excellent survival gameplay"; Screenrant said "indulged to forget to eat"; Dual Shockers gave 9/10 and commented "I believe Dune: Awakening will become the work that we will call "one of the best games in history" when we review ten years later."

 This is just the beginning. The season ticket of "Dune: Awakening" includes the first batch of four DLCs. The development team has devoted all its efforts to future optimization and large-scale free content updates to expand the game's plot and functions. Finally, please note that "Dune: Awakening" is now officially released on the Steam platform.

  About Funcom

  Funcom is a developer and publisher focusing on PC game console games. Since its establishment in 1993, it has continued to provide excellent entertainment experience to players around the world, and has launched more than 20 works. His representative works include "Conan Exiles", "Heavy Metal: Hellsinger", "Aloft", "Dune: Spice Wars", "Secret World Legends", "Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures", "The Longest Journey", "Anarchy Online", "Dreamfall: The Longest Journey", etc.

 About Legend Pictures

 Legend Entertainment is a leading media company with film (Legend Pictures), TV and Digital Media (Legend TV and Digital Media) and Comics (Legend Comics) departments, committed to owning, producing content and providing services to global audiences. Legend has built a series of iconic media assets, established a trustworthy brand image, and continued to launch high-quality commercial entertainment works, including some of the world's most popular intellectual property rights. Overall, the total global box office revenue of Legend Pictures related works has reached nearly US$21 billion.

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