Dune: Awakening is coming to XBOX on September 22. Not only that; it’s also coming to XBOX Game Pass as an XBOX Play Anywhere title and will be Handheld Optimized, so you can play it across XBOX on PC, XBOX Series X|S, ROG XBOX Ally, and XBOX Cloud with cross-play and cross-progression support.
We’re absolutely thrilled to be giving everyone in the XBOX community the opportunity to take a step into one of the most iconic science fiction worlds ever created.
The game is available for pre-order on XBOX today at $49.99. Pre-ordering gives you the exclusive Terrarium of Muad’Dib, a small home for everyone’s favorite desert mouse that you can place in your base. Pre-ordering the Deluxe Edition ($69.99) or Ultimate Edition ($89.99) will also give you five days of early access, with the opportunity to play starting September 17. These special editions also include a host of other in-game goodies.
The version coming to XBOX on September 22 is not just a port from PC. It’s a bigger, better, and much more accessible experience. With everything new coming in addition to everything that has been rolling out on PC the past year, this will be the definitive version of Dune: Awakening. The ultimate Arrakis survival experience.
What Is Dune: Awakening?
Dune: Awakening is first and foremost an open world survival game. The core loop is about surviving on Arrakis and rising from nothing to greatness through exploration, combat, crafting, and building, whether you do it alone or with friends.
But it’s so much more than that. It also features immersive RPG and adventure gameplay that makes for a much richer, more accessible survival experience:
- A deep, engaging narrative told through hours of cinematic storytelling and featuring, among others, characters from the books and movies.
- A set of goals that guide you through the world, offering a sense of direction that makes the experience more accessible.
- A large open world spanning the survival-focused Hagga Basin, major cities such as Arrakeen, the vast Deep Desert with its spice and sandworms, and more.
- An RPG-like progression system where you can pursue five Schools of the Imperium, and where you decide which skills and abilities to unlock as you shape your character over time.
- An expansive late-game centered on the faction conflict between House Atreides and House Harkonnen, where you must not only rise through their ranks, but also complete missions for them to ensure their victory in the Landsraad.
- Cities such as Arrakeen and Harko Village, complete with banks, shops, drinking establishments, stories to unravel, and other players to meet in multiplayer.
- Traversal as a core mechanic: ground and flying vehicles, climbing, rappelling, and soaring. Exploration on Arrakis is dramatic and exciting.
- A sandbox combat system where mixing melee weapons, ranged weapons, and special powers makes for deep, engaging combat experiences.
- Multiple ways to play: full single-player, with friends on private servers, or large-scale multiplayer on official servers with hundreds of people.
- It’s Dune. There are sandworms. Tread lightly.
What’s New in the XBOX Version?
Dune: Awakening has been out on PC since June 2025. During that time, we have added a ton of new content and enhancements, all of which will be in the XBOX version on day one. But there will also be several entirely new additions:
Single-player is perhaps the most important new addition. You will finally be able to experience everything Dune: Awakening has to offer in a fully-fledged single-player mode, where you can play the game entirely at your own pace. This is not a scaled down version of the game; it’s the full experience, start to finish.
UI and controls have been optimized for XBOX, ensuring that the Dune: Awakening experience translates perfectly to console. You will also be able to choose between Performance Mode (default) and Quality Mode, with Performance Mode targeting 60 FPS. We look forward to showing more XBOX gameplay in the future.
Scalable difficulty and game customization goes hand-in-hand with single-player but is also available on private servers. You will now be able to customize many different aspects of your game, including enabling and disabling sandstorms, increasing harvesting and experience rate, adjusting what drops on death, base building piece limits, and much more. We want to give you the freedom to customize the game to how you will enjoy it, tailoring difficulty and other options to your preference.
The full story of Book One will finally be available. On PC, we have rolled out multiple chapters over time that have expanded the story, introducing hours of extra main story and side activities. When the game launches on XBOX, you will be able to experience the whole story from beginning to end. We’re very proud of the cinematic storytelling of Dune: Awakening and can’t wait for you to discover it for yourself.
The Definitive Version of Dune: Awakening
Beyond everything new that’s coming when the game finally arrives on XBOX on September 22, XBOX players will also get to enjoy everything that’s been added and enhanced in the PC version over the past year.
This includes:
- PvP is now fully optional in multiplayer, the entire game supports PvE play.
- The late-game is bigger and better than ever, with countless hours of content.
- A myriad of quality-of-life improvements have been made, including ways to back up and keep safe your bases and vehicles.
- The world has been expanded, with many new locations as well as new missions to complete and dynamic encounters to discover in the world.
- Specializations and Augmentations have been added to give you even more options in how you customize and develop your character.
- Countless other additions and enhancements.
What arrives on XBOX on September 22 will be the definitive version of Dune: Awakening, the perfect time and opportunity to immerse yourself in Arrakis.
We also have several exciting things in store post-launch, including a brand-new map that will be released as a free update to all players. The Polar Cap, an icy new region of Arrakis, will introduce new survival mechanics, more stories, and more things to craft and build, greatly expanding the already rich content of the game.
We look forward to seeing you on the sands of Arrakis soon.
Dune: Awakening – Ultimate Edition
Funcom
$89.99
$71.99
5 DAY HEAD START
Play the game 5 days before the launch, on September 17.
TERRARIUM OF MUAD’DIB
Give the desert mouse a unique home within your base.
SUNSET DYE GLOBAL SWATCH
A unique color pattern for all your outfits, vehicles, and weapons.
Purchase the Ultimate Edition and receive the following items in addition to the base game:
• Season Pass: Includes the first 4 DLCs for Dune: Awakening
• Sardaukar Bator Armor: The menacing armor worn by the Sardaukar, the elite military force that players find themselves hunted by in the game
• Dusk Rider Sandbike Swatch: A unique color pattern for your sandbike
• Blue Dasher Ornithopter Swatch: A unique color pattern for your ornithopter
• Caladan Palace Building Set: Building pieces and placeables from the 2021 film
• Dune 2021 Film Stillsuit: The stillsuit worn by Paul Atreides’ in the film
• Digital Artbook: A 50-page artbook full of artworks from the game’s development
• Digital Soundtrack: 90 minutes of music from the game
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe.
Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Dune: Awakening – Deluxe Edition
Funcom
$69.99
$55.99
5 DAY HEAD START
Play the game 5 days before the launch, on September 17.
TERRARIUM OF MUAD’DIB
Give the desert mouse a unique home within your base.
SUNSET DYE GLOBAL SWATCH
A unique color pattern for all your outfits, vehicles, and weapons.
Purchase the Deluxe Edition and receive the following items in addition to the base game:
• Season Pass: Includes the first 4 DLCs for Dune: Awakening
• Sardaukar Bator Armor: The menacing armor worn by the Sardaukar, the elite military force that players find themselves hunted by in the game
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe.
Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Dune: Awakening
Funcom
$49.99
$39.99
TERRARIUM OF MUAD’DIB
Give the desert mouse a unique home within your base.
SUNSET DYE GLOBAL SWATCH
A unique color pattern for all your outfits, vehicles, and weapons.
Dune: Awakening is a single- and multiplayer Open World Survival game with immersive adventure and RPG gameplay. Explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story as you rise from survival to greatness on the most legendary planet in the universe.
Just remember: the sandworm always comes.
Explore a vast, open world Dune
Discover a dynamic and immersive Arrakis, from the rolling sand dunes of the Deep Desert to hidden Fremen caves and the bustling city streets of Arrakeen. Climb towering mountains with the Shigawire hook and fly across sandworm-infested deserts in an ornithopter you built yourself. Escape the destructive might of the massive sandstorms towering above you as they sweep across the landscape, then take a quiet moment to witness the beauty of Arrakis when the sun is low.
Unravel an epic, cinematic Dune story
In Dune: Awakening, you get to step into the books and movies and experience one of science fiction’s most incredible worlds up close. Join the Atreides or the Harkonnen and rise through their ranks as you explore their unique stories. Meet familiar characters such as Duke Leto and Feyd-Rautha, investigate the mysterious disappearance of the Fremen, and discover the truth about your own past. Unravel an epic, cinematic Dune story that asks the mind-bending question: what if Paul Atreides was never born?
Become a master of combat and survival
Arrakis is a test that few survive. Those who do, awaken. Learn to survive the unique climate of Arrakis, chasing shade and extracting liquid from the bodies of your enemies to refine it into water. Study the teachings of the Schools of the Imperium to unlock a powerful repertoire of abilities, weapons, and tools. Wield the Trooper’s unparalleled firepower, use the Bene Gesserit voice to control your enemies, deploy the Mentat’s deceptive traps, or master the Swordmaster’s unique dance of death.
Build your stronghold, craft your ornithopter
Carve out your own piece of Arrakis and build your personal base of operations. From small outposts to elaborate and towering strongholds, build everything piece-by-piece in the Atreides or Harkonnen style, or any of the other available architectural styles, and decorate it to reflect your personality. Equip it with powerful crafting machines and spice refineries and watch your power and fortune grow. Craft anything from useful desert-survival gadgets to entire vehicles such as ground cars and ornithopters.
Single-player, multiplayer, and scalable difficulty
Play alone in full single-player, multiplayer with friends on a shared server, or with hundreds of other players on a public server. The full game, with all its features, content and story, is available regardless of which mode you choose. Both single-player and private multiplayer servers offer extensive customization options, allowing you to scale difficulty and tune gameplay options however you like.
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