Dune: Awakening launching in 1.0 is somewhat of a rarity for the survival game genre, which more often than not sees games launch in an early-access state. Releasing in early access lets developers gather more player feedback and slowly add more content to the game over time before eventually launching in full, oftentimes with a price increase.

Awakeningwill not launch into early access. When it comes to developing sprawling open-world experiences that encourage community-building, many developers opt to go the route of an early access release to optimize the development process.