DUNE: SPICE WARS

Arrakis. Dune. Desert Planet. We’ve seen it before in books, movies and games, but the desert planet of Shiro Games’ upcoming Dune: Spice Wars takes its own approach to the world. While Spice remains key to gameplay, Shiro’s approach tackles the broader galaxy of Dune in a way that most prior games haven’t attempted.

I got to see blend of 4X and RTS gameplay in a hands-off gameplay demo, and it’s looking very promising. It included the broad outline of the start of a singleplayer campaigni as House Atreides, as the player ventured out from their single starting territory to explore the surface of Arrakis.