As an open-world game set in the Dune universe, Dune: Awakening looks like the next best thing to living inside of Frank Herbert’s novels. Because Awakening exists in an alternate timeline in which Paul Atreides does not exist, there’s a general Dune-ish status quo that pervades the entire presentation of Awakening. One can align themselves with different Great Houses of the Landsraad, join the Fremen, or perhaps, become a smuggler — kinda like Gurney Halleck did in his spare time.
