Dune: Spice Wars

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This is your desert, your Dune. Lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.

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Developer:
Shiro Games
Publisher:
Funcom
Release date:
14 September 2023
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Recent Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (55)
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (7229)

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Description

This is your desert, your Dune.

Lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis. Spice is the most valuable resource in the universe. The spice extends life, expands consciousness, and makes interstellar travel possible. Found only on Arrakis, it is sought by the most influential forces in the Imperium…

Scan the landscape for wormsign or risk losing your troops and spice harvesters to colossal sandworms who will burst through the dunes to devour them whole. Crush your opponents in combat, best them through political intrigue, and undermine them with your network of illusive spies.

Experience the unique Dune universe, one of the most influential sci-fi settings ever created. Lead your faction to victory with iconic characters, such as Duke Leto Atreides, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, Esmar Tuek, and Liet Kynes. Stay alert as opposing factions seek to gain the upper hand and the planet itself threatens with vast deserts, huge storms, and the dreaded sandworms.

4X in real time.

Balance open warfare, subterfuge, political influence, and economic supremacy to prevail and gain control over the most important planet in the universe. Use secretive agents to sabotage the plans of your opponents. Vote on political resolutions in the Landsraad to further your strategy. Or dominate your opponents by overwhelming them with an all out assault.

Explore Arrakis with ornithopters to discover resources, villages, and points of interest. Expand with your troops to take control of regions. Exploit the resources through buildings and spice harvesters to dominate the economy. Deploy your spaceships and aircrafts to exterminate your enemies but beware as outright aggression can have high political repercussions.

Embark on a strategic journey where you can choose the path of honor and politics or embrace violence and deceit. Choose from various factions with unique abilities and playstyles. Each faction can be customized by selecting councilors who enhance their strengths and mitigate weaknesses.

Whether you choose survival tactics, shady dealings, military might, or dominating the spice trade, there is a faction and councilor combination for every player's preference. Explore the possibilities and shape your own destiny on Arrakis.

Conquest mode.

Take control of one of the major houses and fight through a number of unique scenarios and situations. Personalize your starting house with a variety of perks and upgrades to tackle the many challenging objectives of the Conquest mode, ensuring you a unique experience every time you play.

Band together in 2v2 matches or face each other in a free-for-all of up to four players. Tailor the parameters of your multiplayer match to your preferences, including AI difficulty, map size, victory conditions, sandworm aggression, storms, and number of Sietches. Team up and try different faction combinations to identify synergies and dominate Arrakis.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 and Windows 11
Processor:
Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz / AMD Ryzen 5
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX550
Storage:
4 GB available space

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10 and Windows 11
Processor:
Intel Core i7 2.8GHz / AMD Ryzen 7
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVidia GTX 1080 / AMD 6600
Storage:
4 GB available space

User reviews

Survival_man
Not recommended | 09 May 2026
13.4h played

The AI is very bad, I win even at max difficulty. And I'm not even that smart I played Age of Empire and was at the lowest posible ELO level, I literally stopped playing it because I would almost never win unless I

Helpful: 17
Dr. Diesel Submarine
Not recommended | 23 May 2026
6.4h played

It's a well optimized, but mediocre strategy game. There is literally nothing interesting or captivating about the mechanics that are supposed to make this game stand out from all the similar strategy games. I feel like

Helpful: 21
Theon
Recommended | 05 May 2026
29.1h played

I can't believe I forgot to review this. Game is good. Very underrated. You need to be somewhat into 4X but mechanics are not as complicated as some of the other ones out there. I only had to look up how assassinations

Helpful: 17
Warboss
Recommended | 26 May 2026
24.8h played

Proceed with caution! I have a decent amount of RTS/4X game time under my belt, but not a heap. I only dabble in this genre, and trying to get into this game made me realise how bad i am at these kind of games. I tried

Helpful: 4
lews_the_dragon
Recommended | 12 May 2026
333h played

Very beautiful RTS. Long games, with a lot of economy. Low need for a quick micro unit comanding. More of a big strategy style where you have time to think and counter the enemy.

Helpful: 1
Philippou
Recommended | 16 May 2026
426h played

A great game, I loved it when I was playing it. It has kinda be deserted by the developers but not by the community. I really hoped to have much more DLCs and content as this game was really great, polished, fun, kinda

Helpful: 1