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Based on 44 User Ratings
6.0
34% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
45% Mixed
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20 Ratings
20% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 44 User Ratings
6.0
34% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
45% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
20% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
Shiro has delivered, daringly and **** advice: Read everything, tooltips, goals, etc. Pause the game and read everything, so you understand what is happening and won't get lost later on. The systems and lingo urge you to know what they are talking about. I got defeated at 'campaign' mode. And i had no clue as to why at first, I was winning on all fronts so i thought. The obscurity of systems and the wall of info put me off at first. It is not an easy game. There is very much to take in. Especially because the game is very unique. There is no other game like it. Give yourself the luxury of knowing this game. You will love it. Apart from this hurdle of uniqueness, Dune Spice Wars is a very very good game, and the more you play it the more the systems will become second nature. And the more you will master Arrakis by your own **** is the game a Dune game? Yes. It's more Dune than any RTS ever could be, it is more Dune than the new movie is. It is less Dune than the first Cryo game from 1992. And it is on par with the Boardgame from the 70's. In other words, it is a freeform Dune game with a lot of unique elements from the universe. Overall it is a beautiful looking UI. But one of my major complaints stems from EA:The UI needs a lot of focus of the player, it can be too busy with icons and lingo, you can get lost and have to pause the game just to make sense of every icon, meaning and alert button. It is a lot to take in and sometimes hard to keep up and therefore sometimes very hard to make the right decisions and stay on course concerning your tactic.Once it clicks however you really do feel like the Ruler of the Known World. And that is a fantastic feeling. When you win it is all your doing, when you lose, you need to consider if you really made the strategic puzzle fit to the scheme at hand. My suggestion in campaign mode? Focus on the straightforward missions. Do nothing else. What i find lately is zooming out completely makes it a game of moving icons, but you do gain all the vision needed as a commander. It works best to play this game like that. It is a bit of a shame sometimes all the beautiful vistas you miss playing this way, but you zoom in enough during gameplay. Everything is easily done once you get the hang of it, but the learning part can be a problem for many players.Nevertheless, even though this game needs getting used to, and you need to learn to play. It is fantastically crafted and very lovingly executed. Very polished and cared for. The campaign in the form of roguelite missions is simply fantastic. I will always prefer this mode above anything else. I get beat at easy mode, after 100 hours in EA. Which is a good thing. I never had these tense battles before 1.0. **** is the best Dune pcgame that has ever been made. Period. It is very daring blend of genres and a genuine authentic Dune experience as a whole.I am deeply in love with it. Albeit the game is void of soul and personality in the form of storytelling. An introduction to the House/Faction or a glimpse of grander scale could easily mitigate this. However the game itself does the most telling for you, and it **** you into the core. Something the Westwood games did with video and moreso the trailers for this game did wonderfully. I don't care for the discussion about whatw a sprimised in Ea or what they delivered was not canon. For me it captures the essence of Dune wonderfully and i don't care if it is not a RTS or there is no story campaign. The campaign we got is 1000 times better and very replayable. This game is the best Dune game there is. Trust me.
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I've been thoroughly enjoying this game for a couple of days now. Every faction plays differently enough to provide replayability and there are options for different approaches to conquering the planet.
Having a game mode where a full game can be played in one evening helps, too.
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Northgard tries to be Stellaris.
Northgard has its own niche of “survival RTS” but also of embracing relative simplicity. I find it quite impossible to play competently in multiplayer because every region has two economic multipliers, most have one special modifier and all have wind strength. All agents have their own multipliers too. It makes us jump through very arbitrary hoops to optimize our region’s income. Like build one building of each of the three categories to get different bonus, there are tons of variations of that. Or unique buildings that affect all surrounding regions.
So all the complexity of a Paradox title, while always feeling too small. It keeps the “cuteness” of Northgard and you will rarely have more than 15 units, with are displayed as up to 5 individual soldiers. It’s the furthest from epic possible.
I maybe would give it a 5 if there were more, better games of that type out there, but there really aren’t, so it gets the 7 for being a big fish in a small pond.
P.S. Shiros PR team practically nuked their own game by double gaslighting the community.
1st, they claimed to be the most lore accurate Dune adaptation ever made, but it ended up being incredible “current year”. The genderswaps are insane, especially since Frank Herbert thought a lot about gender. For example, 3 of the 5 Fremen ground units are women. However, later in the story the messiah replaces the Fremen who were his army during his galactic crusade with an all female peacekeeping force. If men already were marginalized within the Fremen military, why build the Fish Speakers from scratch instead of fireing the 40% males and keeping his Fremen females.
2nd, they promised a campaign, but changed the scope and axed the campaign. Fine, but instead of just saying that like normal people, they decided that they can just call their Conquest / Domination mode a campaign and say all goals have been met. Everyone knows that a campaign has a story and customized missions, not just a succession of random map games that can earn random bonuses for the next random map game.
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Don't understand IGN saying that this game deserves score 9.0 do they only care playing games for multiplayer ?? Dune the novel is full of stories and complicated characters and lore and this game has nothing of that. It's missing a proper campaign/story mode with missions there is only a "conquest mode" basically a battle of skirmishes in a map where you do the same battles and economic choices . Overall gets boring and very repetitive it's barebones. Also, diplomacy feels lackluster with only basic choices and as for the Tech tree there is nothing really worthwhile to invest just few upgrades. Feels like a poor early access game made for multiplayer i am very disappointed.
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A barebones and shallow game.
While the Dune universe implementation is passable at best, the strategic aspect doesn't have a lot going for it. Combat is barebones and uninspiring, very few units to speak of and hard to figure out which is best for what.
Environment is one big flat surface, although visually there are some cliffs and elevation, they don't matter. I understand Dune is a desert planet and it's inherently a vast open space, but it does have cliffs choke points etc. You'll see none of that here.
It has a few well implemented, albeit not very well explained system, such as politics which is interesting but since it's not really obvious how it works doesn't help with the overall impression.
Bottom line, this is a barebones and rushed game with a few well implemented mechanics but unfortunately .not enough to make it even an okay game.
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Summary A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox Series X
Initial Release Date: Sep 14, 2023
Developer:
- Shiro Games
Publisher: Funcom
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