Dune: Awakening News

A survival game lives or dies on the personality of its world. Subnautica is a wonder because its world is a wonder. Abiotic Factor is a cracking farce because its world is a lab staffed by idiots. Dune: Awakening, meanwhile, has the fortune of coming with a pre-packaged world, already built by scores of sci-fi novels and movies full of beautiful scowlers. Developers Funcom therefore have existing rules to play with, a culture and geography which is basically ready-made for a video game. It's almost cheating. Sandstorms rage, forcing you indoors. Sandworms give chase, prompting you to run or bike faster across the desert. Military ships scan the dunes at night with spotlights, and launch tough enemy patrols if you get caught. Everything here already lends itself to the kind of adventurous fantasy any hardy video gameser would like.

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Where are all of the Dune Awakening trials located? Through unlocking research blueprints, killing scavengers, and avoiding that deadly Sandworm, Dune Awakening takes you on a guided journey through spice dreams, choosing and pledging loyalty to your House, and uncovering the secrets of Arrakis.

This journey is comprised of a series of Dune Awakening Aql trials, and finding the location of each is a challenge of its own. The first location is given to you following a cutscene in which you have a spice dream, but finding the rest is up to you. With only the Journey menu and a few riddles at your disposal, it can be tough to find each of the eight trials. Here, we show you how to reach every Dune Awakening trial location in one of the best survival games of 2025.

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Dune Awakening base building guide

Want to build a base in Dune Awakening? Constructing a base is one of the very first things you'll do on Arrakis, and it's also one of the most important things to get right. The weather is one of the most dangerous enemies in Dune Awakening, so having a base to shield you from the sun, regular sandstorms, and the highly dangerous Coriolis Storm is essential to survival on Arrakis.

With our Dune Awakening base building guide, you'll have all the information you need to create the perfect stronghold, capable of withstanding almost anything the desert planet throws at you. For even more help in your adventures, check out our guides on how to get water in Dune Awakening, and the latest on how private servers work now that the MMO game has officially launched.

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New survival MMO Dune Awakening continues to grow, becomes Steam bestseller

Dune: Awakening is a massive multiplayer, survival title from FUNCOM. Creator of The Secret World Legends and Conan Exiles, FUNCOM is no stranger to MMOs and Survival games and has brought all their experience and skills to their latest large-scale survival title set in the Dune universe. Having previously given Dune: Awakening a test drive back in April, I’ve been eagerly awaiting its release. Having spent the last week in Arrakis, Dune: Awakening is providing some of the best survival gaming I’ve experienced in quite some time.

 While there are still hundreds of hours to be spent exploring and crafting my way through every inch of the vast and beautiful world that FUNCOM has created, the time I’ve spent with Dune: Awakening has provided incredible insight into lengths the developer has gone to in order to bring the world of Dune to the players in a real and fascinating way. 

While I will hold back from revealing story details that could be seen as spoilers, the... Read more