Dune: Spice Wars Continues Long-Term Strategy Tradition

We first saw Dune: Spice Wars this evening, and the game is clearly looking for a follow-up to its long-established claim of success in the strategy genre.

Most of the new trailers have an atmosphere, and you hear a lot of places and character names that have firmly established the new game in Dune novels. As the camera emerges from a scene in Arachis, a giant hand grabs part of the planet and you see the sand slide from your finger.

The game’s official site has more details that promise Dune: Spice Wars to be a real-time strategy game with 4X elements. This game is being developed by Shiro Games, the development team of a survival game called Northgard.

In the new Spice Wars game, players take on factions competing for control of the Arakkis, the only place in the universe where Spice can be found. Of course, players can control familiar factions like Atreides and Harkonnen, but other factions sound like options too. The game also promises different mechanics and methods to aim for victory, including cheating, political, economic growth, or direct warfare. The game boasts quadruple real-time dynamics as players explore, expand, exploit and exterminate while taking control of a vast desert planet.

Dune: Spice Wars will first be available in Early Access to help further development of the project, with the first chance to try the game in 2022.

Dune is currently experiencing a particularly strong resurgence thanks to a new and successful film, and the first appearances of this new game look promising.