Dune: Awakening is coming to XBOX on 22nd September 22 and it’s also coming to XBOX Game Pass as an XBOX Play Anywhere title so you can play it on Xbox, Xbox on PC and handheld.
Dune: Awakening is 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.
Main features are:
- 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.
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.
You can pre-order the game now on Xbox.