Dune Awakening worms its way past one million sales, Funcom’s best performing game to date

Dune Awakening has passed one million sales, making it the best performing Funcom game ever.

Just 18 days since the early adopter launch, the game has managed to do what Conan Exiles took a year to achieve. Even now, the game is pulling in roughly 175,000 concurrent player peaks.

In an infographic released alongside the milestone announcement it’s been revealed players have been eaten by worms 816,720 times, 628,807 deaths have occurred in the game’s endgame PvP Deep Desert, and 121,941 guilds have been formed among other interesting tidbits

The game kicked off to a mighty start and has shown little sign of losing momentum. It blasted past 142,000 concurrent players on 10th June following its public release. There’s been a little bit of controversy via the PvP Deep Desert, as many players aren’t finding the fun in perilous free-for-alls. The director initially stood firm on the direction of the endgame, but has earlier today announced plans to expand the PvE portion of this region.

Alongside this future change to the Deep Desert, hints at what future major content updates will look like have also been revealed. We know every three-to-four months a Hagga-Basin-style map should be added, which should do wonders for the crowd who like popping back in to play every once in a while.

If you’re curious about whether you’ll enjoy Dune: Awakening, why not check out our review. “Dune: Awakening is a harsh survival game, an intriguing RPG, and a fierce open world PvP game all in one,” it reads. “Somehow, it pulls it off.”