Dune: Spice Wars to blend RTS and 4X gameplay mechanics
Dune: Spice Wars is coming in 2022, and through Shiro Games and Funcom, will blend RTS and 4X gameplay into one package. Shiro Games have a precedent set with their critically acclaimed Northgard RTS, and will share several designs with the previous title.
Set on the desert planet of Arrakis, Dune: Spice Wars will be just as much about alliances and political intrigue as it will maneuver military units around in real-time.
Shiro Games’ experience in developing Northgard will be visible in Dune: Spice Wars when it arrives later this year. Players will move across the desert planet’s regions, which will have outlined territories, each with a town.
Controlling the town means that the player also controls that territory and that offers the player resources such as Spice (trade), Plascrete (building), or other resources to sell-off. While it will be satisfying to march troops into a small town and conquer it, there is another way.
The strategy game will also feature many of the options 4X players enjoy, such as taking over a town through diplomacy and politics. This will be the domain of factions like the Atreides and may be much safer than simply sending in the army.
That could lead to a loss of life, and it’s not free to deploy military forces. Arrakis is an unforgiving desert planet; when a military force runs out of supplies, they will quickly perish in the heat of the desert.
This makes the political facets of the game incredibly important. It’s not just “sand,” either, since the game's desert has its own version of oceans in the Deep Deserts. It’s not about drowning there, but sandworm attacks.
Water will be farmed at the polar ice caps as well, but water is a very rare and precious resource and will be a major point of
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