Dune: Awakening One of the Most-Played Games on Steam as Peak Concurrent Player Numbers Hit New Heights

Although Head Starters person been visiting Arrakis since June 5, Dune: Awakening released for each players yesterday, June 10. And wrong hours of going live, Funcom's endurance MMO had clocked up implicit 142,000 concurrent players connected Steam: 142,050 to beryllium precise.

That was capable to marque Dune: Awakening the the ninth most-played crippled of the past 24-hours connected Steam. The anticipation is the game's subordinate numbers volition turn implicit the people of this week arsenic it heads into its archetypal play pursuing the motorboat proper, truthful we could spot an adjacent bigger concurrent highest connected Saturday oregon Sunday.

Ahead of launch, Funcom confirmed the console mentation of Dune: Awakening isn't expected present until "sometime successful 2026"). We've besides reported connected however Dune: Awakening players recovered a mode to thrust sandworms, adjacent though it's not an officially supported feature.

We're inactive successful the process of reviewing Dune: Awakening. While there's nary people yet, and we're inactive a small unimpressed by the gunplay, our reviewer wrote: "After much than 35 hours I inactive consciousness similar I’m reasonably aboriginal into my Dune: Awakening adventure, and inactive person caller zones to visit, haven’t gotten precise acold into the main story, and person lone had a fewer encounters with PvP. There’s a ton for maine to do, truthful look for an update sometime this week arsenic I enactment my mode done to the endgame."

To assistance you past connected Arrakis, we've got Dune: Awakening assets guides that'll assistance you find iron, steel, aluminium, and more. If you're conscionable getting started, cheque retired each the Dune: Awakening classes you tin take from, and support an oculus connected our in-progress Dune: Awakening walkthrough for a step-by-step usher to the story.

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