Dune: Awakening Is Coming to XBOX on September 22

Dune: Awakening is coming to XBOX on September 22. Not solely that; it’s additionally coming to XBOX Sport Go as an XBOX Play Wherever title and shall be Handheld Optimized, so you may play it throughout XBOX on PC, XBOX Sequence X|S, ROG XBOX Ally, and XBOX Cloud with cross-play and cross-progression help.

We’re completely thrilled to be giving everybody within the XBOX group the chance to take a step into some of the iconic science fiction worlds ever created.

The sport is available for pre-order on XBOX in the present day at $49.99. Pre-ordering provides you the unique Terrarium of Muad’Dib, a small house for everybody’s favourite desert mouse that you may place in your base. Pre-ordering the Deluxe Edition ($69.99) or Ultimate Edition ($89.99) can even offer you 5 days of early entry, with the chance to play beginning September 17. These particular editions additionally embody a bunch of different in-game goodies.

The model coming to XBOX on September 22 is not only a port from PC. It’s an even bigger, higher, and way more accessible expertise. With the whole lot new coming as well as to the whole lot that has been rolling out on PC the previous 12 months, this would be the definitive model of Dune: Awakening. The last word Arrakis survival expertise.

What Is Dune: Awakening?

Dune: Awakening is at first an open world survival sport. The core loop is about surviving on Arrakis and rising from nothing to greatness via exploration, fight, crafting, and constructing, whether or not you do it alone or with pals.

Nevertheless it’s a lot greater than that. It additionally options immersive RPG and journey gameplay that makes for a a lot richer, extra accessible survival expertise:

• A deep, partaking narrative informed via hours of cinematic storytelling and that includes, amongst others, characters from the books and films.
• A set of objectives that information you thru the world, providing a way of route that makes the expertise extra accessible.
• A big open world spanning the survival-focused Hagga Basin, main cities reminiscent of Arrakeen, the huge Deep Desert with its spice and sandworms, and extra.
• An RPG-like development system the place you may pursue 5 Faculties of the Imperium, and the place you determine which abilities and talents to unlock as you form your character over time.
• An expansive late-game centered on the faction battle between Home Atreides and Home Harkonnen, the place you need to not solely rise via their ranks, but in addition full missions for them to guarantee their victory within the Landsraad.
• Cities reminiscent of Arrakeen and Harko Village, full with banks, retailers, consuming institutions, tales to unravel, and different gamers to meet in multiplayer.
• Traversal as a core mechanic: floor and flying autos, climbing, rappelling, and hovering. Exploration on Arrakis is dramatic and thrilling.
• A sandbox fight system the place mixing melee weapons, ranged weapons, and particular powers makes for deep, partaking fight experiences.
• A number of methods to play: full single-player, with pals on non-public servers, or large-scale multiplayer on official servers with a whole bunch of individuals.
• It’s Dune. There are sandworms. Tread frivolously.

What’s New within the XBOX Model?

Dune: Awakening has been out on PC since June 2025. Throughout that point, we’ve got added a ton of recent content material and enhancements, all of which shall be within the XBOX model on day one. However there can even be a number of totally new additions:

Single-player is probably an important new addition. You’ll lastly have the ability to expertise the whole lot Dune: Awakening has to supply in a fully-fledged single-player mode, the place you may play the sport totally at your individual tempo. This isn’t a scaled down model of the sport; it’s the total expertise, begin to end.

UI and controls have been optimized for XBOX, making certain that the Dune: Awakening expertise interprets completely to console. Additionally, you will have the ability to select between Efficiency Mode (default) and High quality Mode, with Efficiency Mode focusing on 60 FPS. We glance ahead to exhibiting extra XBOX gameplay sooner or later.

Scalable problem and sport customization goes hand-in-hand with single-player however can be accessible on non-public servers. You’ll now have the ability to customise many various features of your sport, together with enabling and disabling sandstorms, rising harvesting and expertise fee, adjusting what drops on demise, base constructing piece limits, and way more. We wish to provide the freedom to customise the sport to how you’ll take pleasure in it, tailoring problem and different choices to your desire.

The total story of E-book One will lastly be accessible. On PC, we’ve got rolled out a number of chapters over time which have expanded the story, introducing hours of additional predominant story and aspect actions. When the sport launches on XBOX, it is possible for you to to expertise the entire story from starting to finish. We’re very pleased with the cinematic storytelling of Dune: Awakening and might’t look forward to you to uncover it for your self.

The Definitive Model of Dune: Awakening

Past the whole lot new that’s coming when the sport lastly arrives on XBOX on September 22, XBOX gamers can even get to take pleasure in the whole lot that’s been added and enhanced within the PC model over the previous 12 months.

This consists of:

• PvP is now absolutely elective in multiplayer, all the sport helps PvE play.
• The late-game is larger and higher than ever, with numerous hours of content material.
• A myriad of quality-of-life enhancements have been made, together with methods to again up and preserve secure your bases and autos.
• The world has been expanded, with many new places in addition to new missions to full and dynamic encounters to uncover on the earth.
• Specializations and Augmentations have been added to offer you much more choices in the way you customise and develop your character.
• Numerous different additions and enhancements.

What arrives on XBOX on September 22 would be the definitive model of Dune: Awakening, the proper time and alternative to immerse your self in Arrakis.

We even have a number of thrilling issues in retailer post-launch, together with a brand-new map that shall be launched as a free replace to all gamers. The Polar Cap, an icy new area of Arrakis, will introduce new survival mechanics, extra tales, and extra issues to craft and construct, drastically increasing the already wealthy content material of the sport.

We glance ahead to seeing you on the sands of Arrakis quickly.