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Games like Dune: Awakening

2025PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck verified72 % positive49.99 €

A survival MMO on Arrakis where you battle thirst, sandstorms and sandworms, build bases and fight rival guilds over precious spice. Its draw is a faithful, atmospheric take on the Dune universe, including the lore's Mentat and Bene Gesserit skill paths.

Sandbox with your own goals
Building and crafting
Post-apocalyptic setting
Open world

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The closest matches for Dune: Awakening are Fallout 76, Ark: Survival Ascended and Ark: Survival Evolved. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Dune: Awakening special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

In short: games like Dune: Awakening

Best alternative overall: Fallout 76 97% match – Post-apocalyptic setting
To play together: Enshrouded 92% match – with co-op
Newest alternative: Palworld 91% match – released 2026

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Fallout 76

97 %Match

2018PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable74 % positive39.99 €

An online Fallout set in the irradiated hills of Appalachia, where you explore a huge world solo or with friends, build camps, join public events and shape your character with perk cards. After a rocky launch, NPCs, factions and steady updates turned it into a lively post-apocalyptic sandbox.

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Ark: Survival Ascended

Sandbox with your own goals

You are stranded on islands full of dinosaurs, taming and riding prehistoric beasts, building bases and surviving alone or with tribes of other players. The Unreal Engine 5 remake makes the huge sandbox world look far more impressive.

Ark: Survival Evolved

Sandbox with your own goals

Stranded on an island full of dinosaurs, you gather resources, build bases and tame prehistoric beasts to ride and fight alongside you. On multiplayer servers it becomes a harsh, time-hungry struggle of tribes, raids and alliances.

Conan Exiles

Sandbox with your own goals

A survival sandbox set in the brutal world of Conan the Barbarian: you build bases and whole cities, endure hunger, cold and enemies, and rise from a lowly exile to a mighty warrior. Playable solo, in co-op, or on persistent online servers with siege warfare.

Once Human

Post-apocalyptic setting

An open-world survival game set in a bizarre post-apocalyptic world where you gather resources, build bases and shoot mutated monsters, solo or with friends. It stands out for blending base building, loot-shooter style progression and surreal apocalyptic horror.

Enshrouded

Building and crafting

A survival action RPG set in a vast fantasy realm where you push back a corrupting fog, fight bosses, and build elaborate voxel-based bases, solo or with up to 16 friends.

Tom Clancy's The Division 2

Post-apocalyptic setting

A cover-based looter shooter set in a meticulously recreated, collapsed Washington D.C., where you team up with friends to clear missions and chase ever-better gear. Its endgame of raids, the Dark Zone and build crafting keeps players hooked.

New World: Aeternum

Sandbox with your own goals

An open-world MMO set on the supernatural island of Aeternum, built around real-time classless weapon combat, gathering and crafting. You can play solo, in small groups, or in large-scale PvP wars for territory.

Palworld

Sandbox with your own goals

Palworld mashes creature collecting together with survival crafting and base building. Captured Pals fight beside you, carry you across the islands or toil away in your factory while you explore an open world armed with guns. Its cheeky, slightly macabre humor gives the whole thing a flavor of its own.

7 Days to Die

Post-apocalyptic setting

A zombie survival sandbox built on crafting, looting, base building and skill progression, where every seventh night a massive horde tests your fortifications. Played solo or in co-op, it blends first-person shooting with tower-defense tension.