Dune: Awakening

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Viking Rise

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))

Viking Rise is a mobile/PC strategy RPG by IGG (known for Lords Mobile). Launched in early 2023, it's a relatively recent entry in the competitive mobile strategy genre. IGG games typically maintain solid daily active player counts due to global marketing and engagement strategies, though not on the scale of top-tier titles. Around 100,000 daily players is a reasonable estimate given the publisher's track record and genre trends.