Funcom’s dune survival game was teased in the concept art

Our first look at the untitled survival game based on Frank Herbert’s dune is part of a well-known trend as developer Funcom seeks talent to create its next Dune video game, offering a taste of what players can expect in the form of concept art and the promise of great things.

We know very little about Funcom’s upcoming Dune game outside of its genre: multiplayer open world survival. But in a recruitment message on the developer’s website, the Conan in exile

The developer calls their Dune game their “most ambitious project yet” and of course it’s set on the desert planet of Arrakis.

In addition to the above concept art, a second atmospheric illustration of Dune can be seen below.

Image: Funcom

Another image, a computer-rendered image of a man in a nursing suit holding a Maker hook, presumably to ride an approaching sandworm, is hosted Funcom’s recruitment website.

Funcom announced plans to develop multiple games based on the Dune franchise back in 2019. The first of these is the real-time strategy game Dune: Spice Wars

, was released for early access in April and received an overwhelmingly positive response. Funcom hasn’t announced a release window or platforms for its survival game Dune.

Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation of dunestarring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Josh Brolin, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista and Stellan Skarsgård, was released in theaters and on HBO Max in 2021. A second film, Dune: Part Twois scheduled for release in October 2023, with a TV series prequel, Dune: The Sisterhoodalso due next year.