About the Game
Dune: Awakening is an epic Open World Survival Game where you get to fully immerse yourself in one of science fiction’s most iconic worlds.
You have been chosen by the Bene Gesserit to go to Arrakis as their agent and uncover the mystery of the missing Fremen. Visit locations such as Arrakeen and Hagga Basin and meet familiar characters such as Duke Leto Atreides and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, as you unravel an epic Dune story never told before: yours.
Whether you prefer to play alone or with friends, Dune: Awakening gives you the opportunity to explore a vast, open world Arrakis brimming with secrets to discover, stories to investigate, gadgets to craft, vehicles to assemble, and bases to build. You choose which path to take as you rise from survival to greatness.
Avoid the roaming sandworms. Seek shadows to stay out of the scorching sun. Study the slow blade or learn to master the powers of the Mentat and Bene Gesserit. Build a modest home or a massive base and decorate it to reflect your character’s unique personality. Climb mountains or craft your ornithopter and take to the skies.
Dune: Awakening gives you a living, breathing Dune on a scale never seen before.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Play alone in full single-player, multiplayer with friends on a self-hosted or rented private 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 offer extensive gameplay customization options, allowing you to scale difficulty and tune gameplay options however you like.
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Official update history
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FIXES
Technical and stability:
Server and client stability fixes.
Fixed 7X3 errors seen on live after the full console launch on September 22.
Added more logging to help Microsoft identify and resolve the issue where a few players could not log into the platform servers on consoles.
Fixed the "Failed to save database: IO operation failed with error code 0x000497" error on Windows/Steam caused by external file locks on the save database.
Fixed an issue on XBOX where suspending the title during startup caused a UserDataStorage initialization failure on resume, leaving saves unavailable until the game was restarted.
Fixed an issue where DLCs were not available through PlayStation Family Sharing.
Fixed an issue where custom settings in ServerCustomSettings.ini on self-hosted servers were not applied because the file was missing DifficultyLevel=Custom
We also made sure updated servers receive the corrected file.
Unblocked characters who were stuck after cross-realm transfers on private servers.
Resources, Building, and Crafting:
Fixed an issue where Sentinel and Caladan Palace building set pieces were missing from the construction menu after Update 1.5.3.0 in multiplayer.
A fix for this issue in single-player will come in a future hotfix or patch.
Fixed an issue where, after a server restart, the origin marker for a backed-up base could sometimes be offset.
Vehicles:
Fixed an issue where players could fail to exit the buggy's turret.
Worldbuilding and Exploration:
Fixed an issue where walk mode would get dismissed automatically after several seconds.
Fixed an issue where map markers could randomly fail to persist if there were other players in the area who discovered the same markers at the same time as the player did.
Deep Desert & Landsraad:
Fixed an issue where Placeable Swatch rewards were missing from the House info cards and the reward dialogue in the Landsraad.
Story, Journey and New Player Experience:
Fixed an issue where the NPC in the Tutorial area could fail to attack the player, which made progression at the Tutorial’s parry step difficult.
Fixed an issue where Trainer journeys would not auto-complete after a version upgrade for the players who had already completed the relevant trainer contracts.
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FEATURES AND CHANGES
Story, Journey and New Player Experience:
Added a fallback where for issue where QTE inputs were sometimes not registered in the Awakening cinematic during Forty Fears, where it auto-completes after 10 seconds.
User Interface:
Removed the legacy "Balanced" Graphics Mode option that was still visible in the Display settings on PS5 after the mode was removed. It was later replaced by Quality.
FIXES
Technical and stability:
Improved server and client stability.
Fixed an issue that could lead to progression loss for some players.
Fixed an issue where failing to join a server would display the wrong character data in the Characters tab, which could lead to players deleting or joining the wrong character.
Resources, Building, and Crafting:
Fixed an issue where the Base Reconstruction Tool could leave some pieces in the incorrect positions.
Worldbuilding and Exploration:
Fixed an issue where entering any Overland map, reconnecting or respawning fully restored HP and reset Power to 0.
Story, Journey and New Player Experience:
Fixed an issue where the "Place your backed up base" journey step sometimes failed to complete after placing the base.
User Interface:
Fixed and issue where ping would not show correctly on Consoles.
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FIXES
Optimized server page so players are directed to better recommended servers.
Fixed an issue where the Assault Ornithopter cockpit was offset and appeared to hang above the Ornithopter body.
Fixed an issue where the Control Scheme image was displayed on the right side instead of the left side, as it appears in the actual settings. It also now properly shows up on the initial setup screen.
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FEATURES AND CHANGES
A new set of decorations is now available to players who log in between September 17 and October 22. This set of 6 pieces includes a banner, two chairs, two tables, and a carpet.
Updated game thumbnail.
Added the option to launch the game without the BattlEye anti-cheat software installed or enabled for the single-player mode, or private and self-hosted servers that do not require it.BattleEye is still required to play on multiplayer servers with BattleEye enabled. Trying to join a multiplayer server from a client without BattleEye will result in an error.This change requires an update to the launch options on Steam, which is not yet being replicated correctly for all clients. This is causing BattlEye errors for some players trying to access multiplayer. To avoid further disruption, we have disabled this change for now. We will deploy the change again as soon as possible without causing further disruption.
Added a new UserServerCustomSettings.ini file for self-hosted servers, which can be found in the steamcmd download folder. This file can be applied to your UserSettings folder to activate the newly added custom settings.
FIXES
Technical and stability:
Improved server and client stability.
Fixed an issue where XBOX’s Age/ID Verification for the UK and AU could lead to them not being able join a multiplayer session.
Fixed an issue where players could observe low vehicle textures for several seconds when they quickly approached vehicles from afar.
Resources, Building, and Crafting:
Fixed an issue where interacting with certain Plant Fibers failed to yield resources and left the plant in the world.
Combat:
Fixed an issue where NPCs could occasionally get staggered to unreachable spots.
Vehicles:
Fixed an issue where in the single player mode vehicle module stats could get overwritten with other module stats.
Worldbuilding and Exploration:
Fixed an issue where some players could encounter a black screen at the end of Forty Fears map.
Fixed an issue where some players could spawn under the terrain in the single player mode.
Story, Journey and New Player Experience:
Fixed an issue where some players could miss the final Book I dialogue and cinematic.
Fixed an issue where the Across the Gap: Refuel the sandbike journey step could fail to register as a completed step after the bike had been refueled.
Landsraad & Deep Desert:
Fixed an issue where the building cost 50% reduction in Deep Desert wouldn’t apply.
Graphics, Animations, and VFX:
Fixed an issue that could occur with falling/jittery movement while walking on buildings.
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Fixes
Fixed a major portion of the issues causing the Static Compactor to sometimes fail to unearth objects during the Convergence and Sample Recovery Landsraad missions.
Fixed an issue where some players on the Harmony World had a Sub-Fief Console on the closed Deep Desert server, causing the Sub-Fief to count toward their total land-claim limit. We also cleared all vehicles that remained on the closed DD servers across all worlds.
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FIXES
Fixed an issue where some players had their cargo containers teleported out of their bases on server start.
Fixed an issue where a cargo container could, in rare cases, fall under terrain.
Fixed an issue where Error Code V62 could occur during travel between maps.
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CHANGES
Improved PSO caching coverage to reduce shader compilation stutters during gameplay.
FIXES
Fixed an issue where the Static Compactor could sometimes fail to correctly target the area around the Fremen relic in the Convergence Landsraad Mission.
Fixed a rare issue that could cause vehicles to boost and Carrier Ornithopters to pick up or drop cargo without player input.
Fixed an issue where the players would stop sprinting when they unholstered the Construction Tool.
Fixed an issue where the Suspensor Belt remained active after the player unholstered the Construction Tool.
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FIXES
Fixed an issue where the UI failed to display the doubled uptime values for generators and wind turbines, and their consumables, during the double uptime event (July 1 – August 31).
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CHANGES
Further improvements to considerably reduce PSO stutters in the game.
Updated the building menu layout to prevent overlaps with required materials while displaying up to 10 building sets at once.
The building menu prompts (Z, C, and the arrow buttons) are now clickable with the mouse.
Added footprints to the sand between the rock islands during the Sample Recovery Landsraad mission, making the path easier to follow.
Removed a placeholder category from the Sub-Fief Console building limitation window.
FIXES
Fixed an issue where a player would get teleported from a specific place in O'odham to the Mysa Tarill Contemplation Room entrance area.
Fixed an issue where lowering a cargo container through a horizontal pentashield could cause it to teleport outside the base.
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Features and Changes
New cosmetic rewards added for Anniversary Event. Happy first anniversary!
‘Contemplation Tea House’ decoration set
‘Master Operative of the Dunes’ light armor
Implemented a new main menu notification to highlight Anniversary Event information.
Self-hosted server improvements:
Added an option to change the static IP or DHCP setting after setup.
Added proper polling for Start/Stop battlegroup operations, so now stop only finishes when the battlegroup is fully stopped, and start only fires after all services are ready. This is needed as the IP change requires a VM reboot, and a proper battlegroup shutdown is required.
Fixed an issue where sometimes DHCP would update the IP to a different one, even when a VM used a static IP, breaking connections.
You can now set the IP Battlegroups to advertise for players to join. Before, it was only available during setup. If a public IP option is picked, the IP will also be auto-refreshed across battlegroup start/restart.
Added an option to change the battlegroup's broadcasted IP after setup, and moved the logic inside the VM for usage within Linux.
The battlegroup edit has now options for the director so that users can adjust settings like "Minimum Servers" for each map, and the adjusted settings will persist with battlegroup restarts.
Fixes
Fixed in-game event notifications to correctly display players' local time zone.
In-game event notifications are no longer triggered on map change and on every login.
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FIXES
Fixed an issue where a character transfer could fail with the F82 error.
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This hotfix requires a client-side download. Remember to restart your Steam client if the download does not appear automatically for you. Servers will be coming back up shortly.
For the list of known issues, please visit our Discord server or Steam discussion boards.
FEATURES AND CHANGES
User Interface:
Clarified text in the “Before You Leave“ character transfer warning. Now it covers both the vehicle backup and the vehicle disassembly and storage.
FIXES
Technical and stability:
Fixed several issues that could cause character transfers to fail with an error.
Fixed a client crash related to building pieces or reconstructed base placement under specific cirumustances.
Fixed a client crash that could happen when a player interacted with UI dropdown elements on a controller.
Resources, Building, and Crafting:
The Water Shippers Arch building piece now aligns properly with other building pieces.
Combat:
Fixed an issue where characters affected by two or more attractor fields did not receive damage.
Graphics, Animations, and VFX:
Fixed an issue where Deep Desert sandstorms appeared yellow on the map.
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Last Steam update Sep 22, 2026 — check SteamDB
Current Release
Build 25486029
Uploaded Sep 29, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
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• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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