5 Games Like Dune Awakening You Should Try

Can’t wait to get your hands on Dune Awakening? Here are 5 games like Dune Awakening you should try out before its release.

5 Games like Dune Awakening
Dune Awakening (Image via Funcom)

Publisher Funcom’s Dune Awakening mixes survival gameplay mechanics with massively multiplayer online (MMO) elements. Players have to manage their hunger and thirst all the while building bases and gathering resources to upgrade their gear. The exploration and teamwork required in the game to traverse the deserted open-world map are paramount.

If you find MMORPGs to be interesting, there are multiple games that you should give a shot. With Dune Awakening’s release just around the corner, here are five games like Dune Awakening you should try out.

1. Remnant: From the Ashes

5 Games like Dune Awakening you should try
Remnant: From the Ashes (Image via Arc Games)

Arc Games set foot in the third-person action-survival genre with Remnant: From the Ashes. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where you play as one of the last remnants of human beings. You have to team up with three other players if you wish to survive and traverse the punishing world of From the Ashes. The combat adopts a Soulslike approach, but with a focus on its fierce shooting gameplay mechanics rather than melee combat. With an arsenal of multiple firearms at your disposal, the game rewards players who are quick on their feet and on their trigger.

2. The Elder Scrolls Online

5 Games like Dune Awakening you should try
Elder Scrolls Online (Image via Bethesda Softworks)

Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls Online has continued to evolve since its release 10 years ago. Players are placed in an immersive open land of Tamriel, which contains regions like Morrowind, Skyrim, Oblivion, etc. Prepare to lose hundreds of hours raiding dungeons with your party or all by yourself. The MMO’s progression offers different variations of active and passive skills that make your character unlike anyone else’s. ESO allows players to share quest progress even if they are multiple levels apart.

3. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

5 Games like Dune Awakening you should try
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (Image via GSC Game World)

GSC Game World made the fourth entry in their flagship game franchise after 15 years with the release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. You play as an army veteran named Skif in a fictionalized version of the exclusion zone at the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. Heart of Chornobyl’s gameplay and survival mechanics have a grounded and challenging feeling. The STALKER series’ post-Soviet apocalyptic world also adds cosmic horror elements with different monstrosities and mutated creatures found in the Zone.

4. Sea of Thieves

5 Games like Dune Awakening you should try
Sea of Thieves (Image via Xbox Game Studios)

Venture into the sea and play as a pirate looking for lost chests, hidden treasures, and intense naval combat with Xbox Game Studios’ Sea of Thieves. The MMORPG offers players the opportunity to venture alone or with a trusty pirate crew in a shared online world. Apart from its engaging naval combat, Sea of Thieves has a variety of sea monsters and ghost ships for you to try your cannons on. Venture out into the unknown with your crewmates on an adventure crafted by how to approach uncharted waters.

5. Ark: Survival Evolved

5 Games like Dune Awakening you should try
ARK: Survival Evolved (Image via Snail Games)

In Snail Games’ Ark: Survival Evolved, you set forth on a journey of survival on a mysterious island filled with prehistoric creatures. The Ark: Survival Evolved’s survival craft style of gameplay forces players to manage their hunger and thirst as they scavenge for resources and gear. The game not only has multiple ways to combat these beasts but also skills to tame them. Ark: Survival Evolved has more than a hundred creatures to tame and test your weapons on. You start with basic crafting and foraging but later get to make massive machines and technological structures.


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