Dune: Awakening Spices Things Up With Free Trial Ahead of Chapter 2 Update and The Lost Harvest DLC

Dune: Awakening launched a free trial ahead of the release of the Chapter 2 free update and the paid DLC titled The Lost Harvest, scheduled for Sep. 10, 2025.

As for the free trial, it became available on Aug. 20, 2025, and will continue until Aug. 24, 2025, allowing anyone to download Dune: Awakening on Steam and play for up to 10 hours for free.

According to the official announcement on the title’s Steam page, future updates in Dune: Awakening will be structured into free major forms, free Books and Chapters, and paid DLCs. Notably, free Chapter updates will be released simultaneously with paid Expansions.

As for the upcoming free Chapter 2, it will become the game’s first major content update, revealing the continuation of the main story following the ending of Chapter 1. It will also bring new locations to explore and new characters. Alongside the continuation of the story, Chapter 2 will bring several new contracts, new encounters, new archetype armors, character re-customization, and more. 

Paid DLC titled The Lost Harvest, in turn, will bring a complete standalone storyline at a price of $12.99. It will also be included in the game’s Season Pass, which costs $24.99 and includes two more major DLCs besides the upcoming The Lost Harvest.

The upcoming paid expansion will task players with finding a wrecked carryall, which was transporting a Miner’s Guild spice harvester.

The DLC will also bring several unique cosmetics, including armor and weapon skins, the Dune Man building set, and a new vehicle, the Treadwheel, complete with its own unique tier upgrades.

Developed and published by Funcom, Dune: Awakening was initially launched only for Windows PC on June 10, 2025 with a console release for Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 scheduled 2026.

The story of the title is set in an alternate timeline, different from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert, as in the game’s world, the franchise’s key character, Paul Atreides, was never born.

The game allows players to step into the boots of an undercover agent working for the Bene Gesserit, who must find the mysteriously vanished Fremen and “wake the Sleeper,” as the desert planet Arrakis struggles with a civil war between House Atreides and House Harkonnen.

As of the time of writing, Dune: Awakening has an all-time peak of 189,333 concurrent players and a “Mostly Positive” rating on Steam with 53,031 reviews.

Notably, within two weeks after launch, the game reached the milestone of 1 million copies sold.