Dune: Spice Wars Is a 4X RTS from Northgard Developer Shiro Games

Funcom and Shiro Games, the French studio backside Northgard and the newly released Wartales, have announced Dune: Spice Wars, a 4X RTS for PC due to launch next year in early admission and not to be dislocated with Funcom'southward own open world survival game set in the Dune IP.

Shiro Games CEO Sebastien Vidal said:

I think I speak for every single person at Shiro Games when I say that nosotros are all massive fans of Dune – both of the original novel and the new and spectacular Denis Villeneuve picture. To be able to bring this universe to life as a strategy game again is incredible.

The Dune universe is the perfect setting for a strategy game. You have major factions, such equally Business firm Atreides and Business firm Harkonnen, with a rivalry that spans back centuries. You have political intrigue, deception, and warfare, all centered around what is past far the well-nigh valuable substance in the universe: Spice. And and so there is the stage itself, Arrakis, a hostile planet total of hidden wonders to explore. Massive sandworms that tin devour entire armies, sandstorms, spice harvesters, all of which our astonishing squad of developers take incorporated into this game.

Take a expect at the first in-game screenshots of Dune: Spice Wars in the gallery beneath.

Shiro Games has promised that Dune: Spice Wars will be greatly expanded during the early access stage, including new game modes. When the game debuts into early access, players will be able to participate in open single player gameplay. Later on, Campaign and Multiplayer will be added.

According to the developers, the game will be based more than on the novel than on the movie. Notwithstanding, Shiro Games is besides working together with Legendary to ensure that the visual pattern and writing of Dune: Spice Wars are properly aligned.

Frank Herbert'southward Dune
Feel the unique Dune universe – one of the nigh influential sci-fi settings ever created. Play equally iconic characters, such Knuckles Leto Atreides, the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and more than, and guide your faction to victory. Watch for the constant threat of the massive
sandworms, who dominate the unsafe mural of Dune.

Forge your own path
Choose betwixt subterfuge, political influence, economic supremacy, or open warfare toprevail and gain control over the most important planet in the universe! Use secretive agents to sabotage the plans of your opponents. Vote on political resolutions in the Landsraad to further your strategy.

4X in real-time
Explore Dune with ornithopters to discover resources, villages, and points of interest. Expand with your troops to take command of more and more regions. Exploit the resource through buildings and spice harvesters to dominate the economy. Exterminate your enemies with a strong military machine only beware as outright aggression tin can have high political repercussions.