Dune: Awakening

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Orna

As of late August 2025, Dune: Awakening had approximately 14,000 concurrent players, reflecting a significant decline from its peak of over 189,000 concurrent players shortly after launch in June 2025. This decrease is attributed to factors such as player burnout, game design issues, and technical problems. Despite these challenges, the developers remain optimistic, citing strong player retention and a 10-year development roadmap that includes plans to explore new planets and regions within the Dune universe. ([gamesradar.com](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/mmo/dune-awakening-dev-says-player-retention-has-been-extremely-good-and-the-mmos-10-year-plan-still-has-so-much-to-pull-from-in-the-lore-well-go-to-new-planets-eventually/?utm_source=openai))

Orna is a location-based turn-based RPG for mobile, released in late 2017 and developed by indie studio Northern Forge Studios. Its persistent world and regular updates have helped it keep a dedicated niche following. As a GPS-location game with social and asynchronous multiplayer features, it's popular but does not approach the mainstream DAPs of top mobile RPGs. Around 10,000-20,000 daily players is a fair estimate for a successful, niche location-based RPG of this age.