Dune
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Dune (1992)

by Cryo Interactive, Sold Out Software, The Hit Squad, Virgin Games, Virgin Interactive Entertainment
Platforms:
DOS, Amiga, Sega CD
Genres:Adventure, Strategy, Real Time Strategy (RTS)
Themes:Science fiction
Game modes:Single player
Story:
Dune is a 1992 video game, based upon Frank Herbert's science fiction novel of the same name. Developed by Cryo Interactive, is the first of the Dune computer games. Dune blended adventure with economic and military strategy, and is considered by many the most immersive Dune computer game. Loosely following the story of the novel, the game casts the player as Paul Atreides, with the ultimate goal of driving the Harkonnen from Planet Dune, while managing spice extraction, military, and later, ecology through the native Fremen tribes. As the player progresses, his troops are equipped with weapons from "crysknives" to atomics, tap into Paul's latent psychic powers, and get acquainted with such characters from the book as Chani and Liet-Kynes.
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Perhaps the game that best captured the Dune atmosphere, ironic taking into account the extremely limited technology of the day. The shifting colours, the relentless beauty of the desert, the political intrigue, all is there and by all accounts it should not have worked, yet it did. Dune 2000 is credited with starting the RTS genre as we know it, but for me Dune is the better game. It's an adventure game that morphs little by little into a strategy game, something that I have not seen since - a game shifting genres partway trough. Those were the times when the rules of gaming were just being written, so experiments were still done. In these modern age of roguelikes, soullikes and deck builders galore, with no imagination whatsoever, I still dream of Dune and of the times when games could be new and original and not just copies of copies of copies.gogaccountname
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Perhaps the game that best captured the Dune atmosphere, ironic taking into account the extremely limited technology of the day. The shifting colours, the relentless beauty of the desert, the political intrigue, all is there and by all accounts it should not have worked, yet it did. Dune 2000 is credited with starting the RTS genre as we know it, but for me Dune is the better game. It's an adventure game that morphs little by little into a strategy game, something that I have not seen since - a game shifting genres partway trough. Those were the times when the rules of gaming were just being written, so experiments were still done. In these modern age of roguelikes, soullikes and deck builders galore, with no imagination whatsoever, I still dream of Dune and of the times when games could be new and original and not just copies of copies of copies.
user avatar@HansiHustenuser avatar@HansiHusten
January 30, 2025
Dune 1.. wow. This game had a huge impact on me when I was a kid. My neighbour played it on his Amiga 500 with a hifi sound system and the intro blew me away. seeing the worm digging through the sand, walking around in the castle, gathering fremen, building an army, flying with a thopter and the story itself was totally unique and special back then. I played it in my likfe a couple of times again and finished it I think 3 or 4 times. This game needs to be saved and preserved!
user avatar@borfastuser avatar@borfast
January 29, 2025
I spent many hours on this one. I had seen the 1984 film by David Lynch and loved the story so much. Being able to play with the characters and "live" the story was nothing short of amazing. The game had some original mechanics, it wouldn't fit a single category, as it blended characteristics from multiple genres, and that made it so much more fun. Very fond memories of this one!
user avatar@shmerluser avatar@shmerl
January 30, 2025
Super fun classic that combines adventure and real time strategy in an immersive mix and is based on the story of the first Dune book more than later Dune games. The art style is inspired by late David Lynch's 1984 Dune movie. It has several distinct versions. The floppy version and CD version with voice acting and more elaborate flight animation. I personally prefer the floppy one though, so if you release it, please release both!
user avatar@Kajan451user avatar@Kajan451
January 31, 2025
This was one of the first games all my friends played at once. I still remember playing it with them, we would have a conference call via our phones to talk about it as we played. I have so many fond memories of this game and it is one of the Milestone games of my life, simply because it reminds me of childhood friends I long lost contact with. There are only a handful games i feel this way about it. And it being a great game on top of it, is a bonus. There are a lot of oldies i played in my teens that don't hold up, but this one definitely does.
user avatar@jdavies25user avatar@jdavies25
January 31, 2025
I remember taking so much time fiddling with all the settings (and trying to get what was then a brand-new CD-ROM technology to work) to get this game going. And, in the end, the non-CD version was better anyhow. Amazing soundtrack, great story, interesting gameplay that I've never really seen in any other game before or since. I've finished this game probably more than any other in my life and would love to be apply to play it without the wonkiness and occasional issues with DOSBox.
Gods, it feels like yesterday when I played through this experience machine. Its a classic and I've never found another game quite like it. Sure, you can put Imperium Galactica, Starlord, or Arctic Baron next to this but they'll always be out-shined by how every element, character, and environment blends into a mind folding adventure!
When people think of a Dune game, it's almost certainly Dune II, Westwood's iconic RTS that birthed a new genre. This one came out around the same time and was somewhat overshadowed, but it's also excellent. A combination of RPG and management game, you are trying to unite the people of Dune to fight back against the Harkonnen. The progression is really interesting and challenging at times, but the amosphere and the art that supports it are second to none for the time. The soundtrack by the sadly now late Stéphane Picq is some of the best use of MIDI composition ever put into a video game. You can buy a remaster of his soundtrack on Bandcamp, and I highly recommend it. As others have said, if GOG were to get this, I would also like to see them get both the floppy and CD-ROM versions as not everyone likes the changes the CD-ROM version brought, which definitely are reminiscent of early CD-ROM titles. Both are important though and giving users the choice would be ideal. I played a ton of this back in the day and would love to have an easy way to do so on modern PCs. I'm sure the rights are all over the place with both Cryo Interactive and Virgin Games being long dead, plus the movie IP as well. But I'm sure GOG could make it happen.
user avatar@khaine81user avatar@khaine81
July 09, 2025
A true masterpiece of it's time and still the best and most immersive Dune game ever made. After Interplay's "Lord of the Rings: Volume I" the second game I shared with my father. Just seeing these screenshots sends me 30 years back in time to switching floppys on an Amiga500, looking at a beautifully rendered 2D day-night-cycle during an ornithopter flight and hearing my father telling what he discovered when he played it the night before. We had so much fun with this game and LotR:I.
user avatar@yesoosuser avatar@yesoos
July 10, 2025
I played Amiga version, also Dune 2 on Amiga 500 , it was very slow I remember, later I got Amiga 2000 with turbo card and this put Dune 2 on another performance level.
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