Dune: Awakening video game trailer evokes same kind of awe as the movie

Dune: AwakeningFuncom developed a multiplayer online survival game called. A new trailer was revealed, showing off a tone and timbre very much akin to Dennis Villeneuve’s motion picture, Dune. The gameplay appears to mix both Ark: Survival Evolved PlanetsideIt is a time of great desperation, contrasted with the intensity of pitched battles in sand.

The trailer, built with footage from what developers call an early alpha version of the game, displays an art style is reminiscent of — but not 100% the same as — Villeneuve’s movie. The description attached the the YouTube video (embedded above) emphasizes the game’s survival aspects, noting that players will go from “searching for water and building shelters against storms to controlling the flow of spice in the top echelons of Arrakis.” The trailer includes scenes of the player character wandering out of the desert wearing a stillsuit, as well as combined arms ground combat featuring tanks and ornithopters.

Dune: Awakening Gamescom 2022 revealed the listing for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Windows PC. Although no release window was given yet, developers have begun accepting sign-ups to the beta.