Spice extends life, expands consciousness and makes interstellar travel possible, and it exists only here. Every influential force in the Imperium wants Arrakis, and you lead one of them.

The sandworms are real

Scan the dunes for wormsign or lose your troops and harvesters to something that comes up underneath them. Harvesting is a constant calculation about when to pull out.

Three ways to win

Crush your rivals militarily, outmanoeuvre them in the Landsraad through political intrigue, or undermine them with a network of spies. All three are viable.

Frank Herbert's Dune

The factions, the ecology and the politics are drawn from one of the most influential science fiction settings ever written, and it shows in the detail.