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Dune: Imperium

Dire Wolf · 2024-03-13

SteamMicrosoft Store

SimulationStrategy

Franchise: Frank Herbert's Dune · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Mar 13, 2024 (Xbox One), Mar 13, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Nov 14, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (Android), Mar 13, 2024 (iOS)

The award-winning board game of strategy and intrigue in the iconic universe of Dune. The Spice must flow.

Dune: Imperium is a Simulation, Strategy game released in 2024, priced at $22.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (94% of 4385 reviews).

449
playing now
94%
positive of 4.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
79/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$22.99
steam price (US)

449 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Arrakis. Dune. Desert Planet. Raise your banner above the vast wasteland before you. As the Great Houses of the Landsraad marshal their forces and their spies, whom will you influence, and whom will you betray? A tyrannical Emperor. The secretive Bene Gesserit. The shrewd Spacing Guild. The ferocious Fremen of the Deep Desert. The power of the Imperium can be yours, but war is not the only way to claim it. Dune: Imperium blends deck-building and worker placement in a deeply thematic new strategy game where the fate of the Empire hangs on your decisions. Will you seek political allies or rely (Storyline via IGDB)

Trailer

Dune: Imperium trailer thumbnail

Dune: Imperium Board Game Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 449 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 509 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~64/week).
  • · Review velocity down 3% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 16,672 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 89k–200k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,454 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$24.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $14.94 at Steam (2026-05-04) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $24.99 · on sale 9 of 26 observed days · $10.05 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
42042020232026Week of 2023-11-01: 420 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 246 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 311 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 121 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

58502026-09-14 23:00 — 243 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 238 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 415 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 310 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 262 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 401 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 321 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 247 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 357 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 469 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 267 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 308 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 479 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 281 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 347 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 585 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 303 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 329 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 504 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 340 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 342 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 484 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 316 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 449 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
613192Nov 2023Aug 2026Nov 2023 — avg 364 · peak 732Dec 2023 — avg 263 · peak 489Jan 2024 — avg 268 · peak 520Feb 2024 — avg 233 · peak 422Mar 2024 — avg 363 · peak 775Apr 2024 — avg 306 · peak 581May 2024 — avg 223 · peak 408Jun 2024 — avg 192 · peak 392Jul 2024 — avg 247 · peak 953Aug 2024 — avg 613 · peak 1,120Sep 2024 — avg 456 · peak 807Oct 2024 — avg 381 · peak 643Nov 2024 — avg 345 · peak 578Dec 2024 — avg 335 · peak 557Jan 2025 — avg 346 · peak 604Feb 2025 — avg 346 · peak 597Mar 2025 — avg 316 · peak 540Apr 2025 — avg 290 · peak 493May 2025 — avg 295 · peak 506Jun 2025 — avg 426 · peak 966Jul 2025 — avg 405 · peak 661Aug 2025 — avg 372 · peak 575Sep 2025 — avg 338 · peak 534Oct 2025 — avg 335 · peak 542Nov 2025 — avg 330 · peak 533Dec 2025 — avg 317 · peak 511Jan 2026 — avg 360 · peak 632Feb 2026 — avg 364 · peak 661Mar 2026 — avg 313 · peak 523Apr 2026 — avg 311 · peak 532May 2026 — avg 325 · peak 550Jun 2026 — avg 488 · peak 1,222Jul 2026 — avg 451 · peak 701Aug 2026 — avg 402 · peak 677
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
772026-09-212026-10-142026-09-22: 4 new positive2026-09-24: 1 new positive2026-09-25: 2 new positive2026-09-26: 2 new positive2026-09-27: 2 new positive2026-09-27: 1 new negative2026-09-28: 2 new positive2026-09-29: 1 new positive2026-10-01: 7 new positive2026-10-01: 1 new negative2026-10-02: 1 new positive2026-10-04: 3 new positive2026-10-05: 3 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-06: 4 new positive2026-10-07: 1 new positive2026-10-08: 4 new positive2026-10-09: 3 new positive2026-10-10: 2 new positive2026-10-11: 2 new positive2026-10-12: 3 new positive2026-10-13: 4 new positive2026-10-14: 1 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$24.99$14.942023-11-142026-10-142023-11-14 — best price $22.992024-01-04 — best price $22.992024-07-11 — best price $22.992024-08-10 — best price $22.992024-09-24 — best price $22.992024-10-31 — best price $22.992024-11-27 — best price $18.392024-12-07 — best price $18.392025-02-02 — best price $17.242025-03-13 — best price $18.392025-04-09 — best price $18.392025-05-23 — best price $18.392025-06-27 — best price $17.242025-07-29 — best price $17.242025-09-11 — best price $18.392025-09-29 — best price $16.092025-10-25 — best price $16.092025-12-04 — best price $17.242025-12-18 — best price $16.092026-01-26 — best price $16.092026-03-11 — best price $17.242026-03-19 — best price $16.092026-05-04 — best price $14.942026-06-25 — best price $16.092026-07-19 — best price $14.942026-08-26 — best price $24.992026-09-09 — best price $24.992026-09-23 — best price $24.992026-10-07 — best price $24.992026-10-14 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

1502026-09-30 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-01 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-02 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-03 07:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-03 16:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-04 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-04 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-05 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 01:35 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-06 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-07 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-08 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 19:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-10 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-10 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 08:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-11 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 22:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

58
achievements tracked
62.9%
earned "Top of the Mountain"
9.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller Support3 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Polish, Korean, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2024-07-31, latest 2026-06-09 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,7890%58
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)781%58

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Sci-fiEconomyFantasyStrategyTabletopTop-DownCard GameLore-RichSpace SimBoard Game

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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