Dune: Spice Wars

Dune: Spice Wars is a real-time strategy game with 4X elements, from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and…

77 14 September 2023

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Strategy Tactical 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) Science fiction

Dune: Spice Wars is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Shiro Games, released 14 September 2023 on Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 1 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What Dune: Spice Wars is

Dune: Spice Wars is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Shiro Games and released in 2023. It was published by Funcom. It is available on Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Heaps.io.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Spice is the most valuable resource in the universe. The spice extends life, expands consciousness, and makes interstellar travel possible. Found only on Arrakis, it is sought by the most influential forces in the universe. Play as one of several factions, including House Atreides, House Harkonnen, the Smugglers, and the native Fremen, and compete for power over Dune and the spice. Scan the landscape for wormsign or risk losing your troops and spice harvesters to titanic sandworms who will burst through the dunes to swallow and devour them whole. Crush your opponents in combat, best them through political intrigue, and undermine them with your network of illusive spies.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Frank Herbert's Dune series

Dune: Spice Wars is the eighth of 15 entries we hold in the Frank Herbert's Dune series. It arrived 22 years after Frank Herbert's Dune. The next entry was Microsoft Flight Simulator: Dune in 2024. Its critic score of 77 is 5 points above the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is Dune: Awakening at 89.

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How it was received

Dune: Spice Wars holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 57% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Dune: Spice Wars launched on 14 September 2023, within three weeks of Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Lies of P and Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Xbox Series's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Lies of P, Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition.

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