Games like Dune: Awakening
If Dune: Awakening is your kind of game, the closest matches are Enshrouded, Conan Exiles and Windrose — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Dune: Awakening is a 2025 open-world survival RPG set on the desert planet Arrakis from Frank Herbert's Dune universe. Developed and published by Funcom, it supports both solo and multiplayer experiences with PvP and PvE elements. Players explore the harsh landscape, craft tools and equipment, construct bases, and engage in the iconic activity of surviving near sandworms. The game is verified on Steam Deck and available for $49.99. According to Steam reviews, approximately 72 percent of nearly 45,000 players found the experience satisfying.
About Dune: Awakening: Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Players who liked Dune: Awakening also play
Steam players who put hours into Dune: Awakening also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Enshrouded
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Top pick for Dune: Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Conan Exiles
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Second-strongest match for Dune: Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Windrose
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Third-strongest match for Dune: Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Rust
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Ranked #4 for Dune: Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Satisfactory
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Ranked #5 for Dune: Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Crashlands
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Ranked #6 for Dune: Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
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Ranked #7 for Dune: Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
EVE Online
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Ranked #8 for Dune: Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with Dune: Awakening.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Dune: Awakening
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Mass Effect (2007)
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Reviewers of Dune: Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Dune: Awakening.
As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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Reviewers of Dune: Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Dune: Awakening.
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
Warframe
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Reviewers of Dune: Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Dune: Awakening.
Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game
Rust
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Reviewers of Dune: Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
No Man's Sky
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Reviewers of Dune: Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Miscreated
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Reviewers of Dune: Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
Miscreated is a multiplayer online hardcore survival game set in a post-apocalyptic future. You will need to survive against mutants, players, and even mother nature herself.
Valheim
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Reviewers of Dune: Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
~Be a maid in the Demon World~ The Secret Café of the Demon Angel Hero.
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Reviewers of Dune: Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Dune: Awakening.
The protagonist who Reincarnated to the Demon World became a black mascot, in order to restore his original appearance. Use the knowledge of the "different world" to transform the little devil's tavern into a maid cafe, and aim for the first maid cafe in the demon world!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dune: Awakening at current Steam store prices.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~70% under Dune: Awakening on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Dune: Awakening.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~60% under Dune: Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dune: Awakening.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~80% under Dune: Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~80% under Dune: Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dune: Awakening.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
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Priced ~60% under Dune: Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dune: Awakening.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~70% under Dune: Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~60% under Dune: Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
SCP – Containment Breach
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
A procedural first-person horror adventure. You are on your own after something goes terribly wrong in this top-secret containment facility. Collect items to aid in your escape and try to uncover the truth, as horror lurks behind every door. Can you make it out alive?
Counter-Strike 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dune: Awakening.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
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Conan Exiles
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Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Dune: Awakening. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Secret World Legends
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Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Dune: Awakening. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
Secret World Legends is a story-driven, shared-world action RPG that plunges players into a shadowy war against the supernatural, where ancient myths and legends cross over into the modern day.
The Park®
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Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Dune: Awakening. Shares Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
Set in a creepy amusement park hiding a dark and sinister secret, The Park is a first-person psychological horror experience focused on exploration and storytelling.
The Longest Journey
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Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Dune: Awakening. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventure, where the player controls the protagonist, April Ryan, on her journey between parallel universes.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
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Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Dune: Awakening. Shares Adventure and RPG with Dune: Awakening.
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, winner of multiple E3 awards as the best game in its genre, is the continuation of a saga that began in the award-winning The Longest Journey, considered to be one of the finest adventure games ever made.
Hide and Shriek
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Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Dune: Awakening. Shares Action with Dune: Awakening.
Scare or be scared in this FREE adrenaline-pumping multiplayer game full of hijinks and mischief! Set traps, cast spells, and scare the living hell out of your opponent to win!
Age of Conan: Unchained
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Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Dune: Awakening. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
Age of Conan: Unchained is an award-winning and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online game set in the sexy, savage and brutal world of Conan the Barbarian. Tread in the footsteps of the greatest fantasy hero of all time, and explore the vast reaches of Hyboria.
Anarchy Online
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Another title from Funcom, the studio behind Dune: Awakening. Shares Action and Adventure with Dune: Awakening.
Anarchy Online – the first ever science fiction MMO – is now on Steam! Compete and cooperate with thousands of players simultaneously on a vast, alien world. Join humanity nearly 30,000 years in the future in a world of perpetual conflict and scientific marvel.
Frequently asked about Dune: Awakening
- Is Dune: Awakening verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Dune: Awakening is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Dune: Awakening cost?
- Dune: Awakening is listed on Steam at 49.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dune: Awakening have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dune: Awakening supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Dune: Awakening?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dune: Awakening are Enshrouded, Conan Exiles, Windrose.
- Who developed Dune: Awakening?
- Dune: Awakening was developed by Funcom.
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