As a survival MMO, Funcom's Dune: Awakening really does a lot of things right. Despite technically being designed as a multiplayer experience, for instance, solo players can find even the first 100 hours of Dune: Awakening to be a rewarding, immersive, and worthwhile albeit arduous adventure. This is largely due to how demanding the game is, the amount of risk involved in simply setting foot on the open sands, and its persistent and extensive grind for materials and resources. However, no matter how satisfying it may be to play at first, it eventually ends up feeling as empty as the desert it's set in.