The 9 best games we played at TGS 2024

Developer: Funcom
Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S
Release date: TBD 2025

During adjustments of dune Over the decades we’ve had a huge impact on gaming with the series of real-time strategy and adventure games inspired by Frank Herbert’s novels. However, we never had the opportunity to explore the desert planet Arrakis in peace. But with Dune: Awakeningthe developers behind it Conan Exiles focus on an experience about surviving in a sprawling and hostile alien world while finding your own path that ultimately leads you to take control of the planet itself.

Creating an online survival game within the dune The universe is an interesting choice, but honestly it feels underwhelming given the history of dune often describes in detail the challenges of surviving on Arrakis. From my hands-on experience, the game is actually very effective at illustrating many of the details contained in Frank Herbert’s novels and film adaptations, such as: Such as fighting sandworms, dealing with water and temperature in the open desert, and finding sandworm resources from defeated enemies. There’s also a strong focus on role-playing, where you create a custom character with a background and special characteristics – such as a Mentat, a Blademaster, or a Soldier. They start out as scavengers, but eventually build up survival resources and a base of operations, and can then become a major player in Arrakis, competing with the other great houses of the Landsraad.

Even during my first hands-on experience with the game, I got an idea of ​​what was happening Dune: Awakening has convinced with its survival gameplay and it’s all about letting players live out life in the wilderness dune Universe. But Dune: Awakening is not just a game of survival, it is also a game with larger ideas about politics in this universe. It includes an endgame in which players become the Duke of Arrakis and decide how their version of Arrakis functions on a server with other players – where they can try to wrest control from the main player. It’s a cool concept and I hope the full release does justice to these big ideas and potential dune Universe.