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Dune: Spice Wars
Developer Shiro Games
Dune: Spice Wars is a 4X real-time strategy video game developed by Shiro Games and published by Funcom. In the game, the player tries to dominate the planet of Arrakis diplomatically or militarily. The title is set in the Dune universe, it was released in early access in April 2022 and was fully released in September 2023. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
498 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
68
Fresh
170 positive · 79 negative
95% range 62–74%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 170 | 79 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 55 | 4 | 167 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 7 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
6,614 of 8,424 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
68% recommend · 159 yes, 74 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 233 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (10,767 of 13,611 positive).
Players praise the game's blend of 4X and RTS elements, calling it a satisfying midpoint between the genres. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the pacing slow and the combat uninteresting, comparing it to a real-time board game. [4][5][6] Several players note technical issues like save corruption and a memory bug that causes crashes. [7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [7]
In late 2024 a game patch released with a new memory/framerate bug that triggers when zooming in and out between the different map layers. After zooming in and out a few times the game slows down, freezes, and eventually crashes. This is a well known issue and the fact that A FULL YEAR later this game-breaking bug has still not been addressed is absolutely mind-boggling. Great game overall, would love to be able to …
- [6]
Doesn't quite scratch my itch. Everything just seems so painstakingly drawn out and frustrating. It feels like a Euro style board game in that it seems like it's built around making victory so painstaking, that nobody will be able to outpace their opponents to such a degree that one player dominates. Instead, it feels like you need to put in half an hour to gain the sort of soft cap in size, queue up your research, …
- [12]
Arrakis: The Planet That Hates You One of the first things you’ll notice is that the world itself feels alive. The whole planet is this huge desert filled with dangerous weather, rough terrain, and giant sandworms that want to eat everything. The map is split into regions with little villages, spice fields, and resources you can take over. But the environment isn’t just for show—it affects almost everything you do. …
- [1]
Are you playing classic Dune RTS, or Stellaris/ Civ? It's in the sweet spot which Northgard began to carve out, but does it much, much better. Addictive, satisfying, polished, respectful of what came before it. Fans of RTS and fans of Dune (games, book or film) will not be disappointed
- [4]
A beautiful, slow-motion desert crawl. Recommended Dune: Spice Wars is an impressive hybrid of 4X and RTS that captures the "vibe" of Arrakis perfectly. The art style is gorgeous, and the way it integrates politics and espionage alongside traditional combat makes you feel like a true House leader. However, the pacing is a bit of an acquired taste—it’s a game of long stretches of silence punctuated by brief moments …
Summarised from 34 of the 363 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
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Dune: Spice Wars sits at 68% positive across 249 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The full release of Dune: Spice Wars received "mixed or average reviews" according to review aggregator, Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received strong approval, being recommended by 67% of critics. While finding the AI inept, IGN enjoyed the changes to water management from early access, "Running a surplus of water, though, increases both the maximum supplies your units can carry and their recharge speed at friendly settlements, so keeping your industrial operations minimal translates into freer movement across the planet". PC Gamer wrote that the game did a poor job capturing the nuances of the Dune universe with its RTS trappings, "Its Byzantine…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 498 · most liked firstHiii i’m joe just putting this here for ppl who’re interested in these things and wanna talk about them 🌀CYBERPUNK!! 🌀Kingdom Hearts 🌀Metal Gear 🌀Metroidvanias 🌀Helldivers 🌀Warframe 🌀Destiny 🌀Warhammer 🌀DND 🌀Evangelion 🌀Serials Experiments Lain 🌀Jojos 🌀Star Wars 🌀Dune 🌀Learning code 🌀Game dev stuff
neutral · AI labelView post →The Planet Arrakis... Known as Dune... Land of Sand. Hear that sexy Soundblaster raawrwr! <3 The opening 45 seconds of one of the great game intros of the early 90s. 📺: Dune II: Battle for Arrakis/The Building of a Dynasty, Westwood Studios, 1992 (DOS version)
neutral · AI labelView post →Mike Jackson’s 1991 illustration of a mallplex for the Night City Guide sourcebook for the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game depicts a showing of Dune at the movie theater. That’s only a year off from when (the most recent) 'Dune' actually debuted in 2021!
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP Stéphane Picq (1965-2025) The French video game music composer has worked on the soundtracks of iconic sci-fi games, mainly with Cryo Interactive, including Commander Blood (1994), Dune (1992), MegaRace (1993), Atlantis (1997), Riverworld (1998)... Our thoughts are with his loved ones.
neutral · AI labelView post →The new Dune game has made choices
neutral · AI labelView post →Been playing Dune Awakening with my cousin and my takeaways are 1) I totally understand why Shia-Hulud is worshiped. I stop everything I’m doing and watch them with my mouth agape like “…. Wow.” 2) Early game feels like a co-op solo survival game rather than an MMO.
positive · AI labelView post →I once won a game of the original, iconic Dune boardgane as the Bene Gesserit. That will, forever, be the greatest gaming thing I've ever done. (If you know what their assymetrical win condition is, you'll understand why)
neutral · AI labelView post →Dune board game set in Frank Herbert’s Dune universe, published by Avalon Hill in 1979. Box art by Chris White. It was reissued in 1984 with the David Lynch movie branding. Box art by Ron Miller (I think) #dune
neutral · AI labelView post →Dune board game set and two expansion modules. Box art by Chris White. (Avalon Hill, 1979)
neutral · AI labelView post →I love this image of Bezos because it captures his true self: the Harkonnen mentat from the Dune II game (1992)
neutral · AI labelView post →3) I sound like a sociopath whenever I say “ooo this spot is great to kill people and take their blood” 4) the dune universe is just perfect for a game like this #dune
positive · AI labelView post →Dune game trailer: arrakis My brain:
neutral · AI labelView post →thinking about the Nintendo 64 game we would have gotten if Dune had come out in 1998
neutral · AI labelView post →Board game night, Dune Imperium Uprising and Tiny Epic Quests.
neutral · AI labelView post →(Re)learned Dune Imperium today. Pulled off the win. That is one seriously good game!
positive · AI labelView post →He who controls the spice... One of the iconic classic game ads. It gives Dune II such an awesomely cinematic feel. 📖: Edge Issue 2, Nov 1993
neutral · AI labelView post →Shouts to the Dune Awakening devs for adding a wildly customisable new single-player mode where you can add or remove as much friction as you want from all aspects of the game. So if you want to just do cool Dune stuff and see the story without any MMO-type busywork you can.
positive · AI labelView post →So the new Dune Awakening game is a shooter? That's what I took away from the footage of the game I just watched. A Dune focused on projectile weapons feels extremely wrong. Unless I'm shooting tiny sandworms at my enemies, but that doesn't seem to be the case here
negative · AI labelView post →It's from Dune not a video game fyi
neutral · AI labelView post →In late 2024 a game patch released with a new memory/framerate bug that triggers when zooming in and out between the different map layers. After zooming in and out a few times the game slows down, freezes, and eventually crashes. This is a well known issue and the fact that A FULL YEAR later this game-breaking bug has still not been addressed is absolutely mind-boggling. Great game overall, would love to be able to play the thing that I paid for. But for now: 0/10 until the bug is fixed. No…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The tech bros only ever read the first book. Dune, but not Dune Messiah. Ender's Game, but not Speaker for the Dead. Foundation, but not Foundation and Empire.
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed Dune: Awakening for @gameinformer.com! Honestly, I had a blast playing it. The game does a lot of things right and hits the mark where it matters most when telling a Dune story! If you have a moment to spare, check it out! gameinformer.com/review/dune-...
positive · AI labelView post →Dune Awakening is having a free-to-play weekend on Steam. I highly recommend checking it out. Probably my favorite game of this year, certainly my most-played.
positive · AI labelView post →Well, pigs must be flying cuz I just won a game of Dune Imperium. #BoardGameApp
positive · AI labelView post →I forgot to link this as part of the Dune thread from earlier: my overall piece of favourite music from the game. It's one unique to the Commodore Amiga version, and is one of only a few tracks in the game. Much smaller OST than the DOS version. But Ecolove does a lot of heavy lifting.
positive · AI labelView post →The Dune Rustlike MMO put offline singleplayer in and it basically fixed every complaint I had with the game.
positive · AI labelView post →the new dune video game is basically Dune-an Exiles (without the penises) and as such is a-okay with me (would prefer penises tho)
positive · AI labelView post →The game over screen from the CD-ROM game, Dune (1992)
neutral · AI labelView post →Dune Awakening (May 20): New trailer - Exploring Arrakis — Secrets of the Desert "Dune: Awakening is a multiplayer survival game where the vast, open, and ever-changing world is designed to keep you engaged in exploration, making maps, and hunting for rare resources and valuable technology."
neutral · AI labelView post →This is dogshit football. Seems like it was a bad move to hold a quarter final game inside the Dune pain box
neutral · AI labelView post →Posting up Dune Awakening Concept Art collections when I find the time. The Kirab are the second group you come across in the game, I thought they should be highly mobile, the dune version of a biker gang in tone... www.artstation.com/artwork/wr3lPg
neutral · AI labelView post →2. A Real Time Strategy game called DUNE: WAR OF ASSASSINS, about how inter-House kanly is practiced in the Corrino Imperium.
neutral · AI labelView post →In regard to eugenicists embracing Dune, Dune: Awakening is interesting. The premise of the game is, "What if Lady Jessica had given Leto a daughter as the Bene Geserit planned?" Maybe the world is better if Paul is never born ...
neutral · AI labelView post →Arrakis: The Planet That Hates You One of the first things you’ll notice is that the world itself feels alive. The whole planet is this huge desert filled with dangerous weather, rough terrain, and giant sandworms that want to eat everything. The map is split into regions with little villages, spice fields, and resources you can take over. But the environment isn’t just for show—it affects almost everything you do. For example, if your troops walk too long across open sand, they start running…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dune: Prophecy wants to be the next Game of Thrones. Good luck.
neutral · AI labelView post →Resource management game with no military strategy. Gameplay: This game offers the basics of management in a game of this style and it's very limited. The strategic war management is totally useless, the battles are boring and predictable. This game could be enjoyable if it were a little more elaborate, but it certainly doesn't deserve to be called “Dune”; it's an insult to the franchise. A special power-up that is easy to obtain is enough to become unstoppable; the combat strategy is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dune: Imperium by @direwolfdigital.bsky.social continues to rock. I think it could be anyone’s game.
neutral · AI labelView post →You can play #DuneAwakening while listening to the original Dune I & II music from the 90s! 🎶 The Dune II: Battle for Arrakis and the Dune: Spice Opera Remastered soundtracks are coming to the Dune: Awakening in-game radio. youtu.be/AUzTovhSb9U
neutral · AI labelView post →Another epic game of Dune: Imperium Uprising by @direwolfdigital.com.
neutral · AI labelView post →Having a spicy time this evening playing Dune: Imperium with the Rise of Ix expansion. #boardgames
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m a DUNE DUDE! Congrats to the entire team on the release of @duneawakening.com. My role in the game is Additional Voices, for the win! The spice must flow, bro. #dune #duneawakening
neutral · AI labelView post →Now I can finally announce that you can find me somewhere in the Dune awakening game. I can’t remember who I played, but I’m in there.
neutral · AI labelView post →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 having played a single round, you will have seen all the game has to offer.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The billowing cloak game in Dune Prophecy is top tier
neutral · AI labelView post →Dune: Awakening is coming Day One on consoles to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on September 22. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UOD...
neutral · AI labelView post →Bought this based on the promises of a campaign mode. Instead they implemented "conquest" which features no story elements and plainly does not live up to the standard expectation of what a campaign is. Still salty about it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The AI in this game is borderline BRAINDEAD. I don't understand why this game has such a high rating. The AI seem to be so incredibly stupid that it will often and happily, suicide it's units into your army within MELEE range without even attacking back. Bonus points if this happens while attacking one of their cities as the AI will give you a performative dance of running around in circles in an attempt to minimize how much damage their units recieve without fighting back at all. On occasion,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been on Arrakis all weekend Dune: Imperium with the Rise of Ix and Immortality expansions #boardGames #soloGames
neutral · AI labelView post →Dune colon Imperium colon Uprising by @direwolfdigital.bsky.social on the table. No expansions. A perfect game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dune: Awakening v1.5 brings a full single-player mode and much more customization www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/dune... #Dune #Gaming #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →The question you should ask yourself with these kinds of games is: Would the game be any good if you removed everything unique to Dune? Is Dune the only reason why this game is appealing? In my opinion, this is a 5/10 game if you ignore all the DUNE IP. The gameplay feels sluggish and boring. The game is also unbalanced in quite a few areas, and would have benefited from more playtesting and polish. That said, as a fan of Dune, this game gets a 7/10 after taking the setting into…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dune: Imperium Uprising. Some say it's the best board game ever made. Rhombus the Pomeranian agrees.
neutral · AI labelView post →Be very careful. The saving on this game is quite erratic. It will save a few times and then suddenly you will find a number of save files have been corrupted and if you try to reload them the game simply crashes dumping you out. It is not clear why this happens and how you can make sure it saves cleanly as there is no sign that any save is corrupted until you load it up. It is not clear how this problem can be overcome/avoided. I guess I have to wait for a patch.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun, but has a steep learning curve. The game is a macro-level strategy game, much more focused on managing your resources and scouting than micro-managing real time unit combat. I watched a lot of Youtube gameplay videos before buying or playing, and I'm glad I did. The game has a steep learning curve and is not intuitive. I love it, but if I had played without learning from experienced players it would have been frustrating - even on the lowest difficulty. The game has five ways to win.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dune: Awakening kicks ass. If you like: Dune Survival crafting games Desert aesthetic Sci-fi Big Ass Worms You should be playing this game
positive · AI labelView post →The world of Dune is well-realised in multiplayer survival game format, offering a harsh planet of unintentional comedy, braindead NPCs, and plenty of grindy crafting. Our review -
neutral · AI labelView post →During my lunch break starting a game of DUNE!
neutral · AI labelView post →#RIP #PatrickStewart #Dune (1984), playing #GurneyHalleck
neutral · AI labelView post →2025 Barrels of Fun Dune pinball machine. Game Number 498 of 720 produced so far (1,000 are allowed, but it remains to be seen if they rest will be built). #DuneMovie #dune #pinball #arcade #frankherbert
neutral · AI labelView post →Dune base tourrrrr (I have been completely absorbed by this fuckin game)
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