Defining a game's genre can sometimes be tricky. For instance, is the varied Crimson Desert a true action-RPG or more of an open-world game like Grand Theft Auto? Similarly, figuring out what lane the packed survival RPG Dune: Awakening lives in has been a bugbear for the devs, though they gradually landed on a particular label early on.
Joel Bylos, game director of Dune: Awakening, discusses trying to define Funcom's take on Frank Herbert's universe in a new interview with FRVR. "Survival game" felt like an immediately fitting label, but the development team had broader aspirations, too. Bylos says, "I think that's one of the biggest challenges we had during development, how to describe it."
