Dune: Awakening similar games & best alternatives

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Dune: Awakening

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2025

Should you play it?

Rise from survival to greatness and challenge the power of an Imperium in Dune: Awakening, a multiplayer survival game on a massive scale. Survive the sandworm, craft your ornithopter, build a fortress, and ascend to power on an open world Arrakis shared with hundreds of other players.

What works

  • Immersive dune universe and lore
  • Engaging survival and crafting mechanics
  • Extensive base building and customization
  • Large open world with exploration
  • Strong social and cooperative gameplay

Things to keep in mind

  • Endgame pvp favors large guilds and can be frustrating for solo players
  • Some bugs and optimization issues
  • Combat can feel clunky at times
  • Steep learning curve for new players
  • Base upkeep and tax system can feel like chores

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Animyst

  • V Rising

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • ARK: Survival Evolved

  • Conan Exiles Enhanced

  • The Matchless Kungfu

Less dominating

Games that feels like Dune: Awakening but with less domination over others

  • Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen

  • Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

  • Remnant: From the Ashes

  • Enshrouded

  • Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition

  • Dungeons & Dragons Online®

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like Dune: Awakening but with less survival pressure

  • Guild Wars 2®

  • Neverwinter

  • Continent of the Ninth Seal

  • Royal Quest Online

  • Elsword

  • Anarchy Online

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Conan Exiles Enhanced

  • Anarchy Online

  • Hide and Shriek

  • The Longest Journey

  • Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Dune: Awakening. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Dune: Awakening. These titles are not in What to play next.

Dune: Awakening: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Exploration, Survival.

Last update: 21/08/2026