Kingdom Maker

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Dune: Awakening

Kingdom Maker is a mobile real-time strategy and RPG hybrid, developed and published by Scopely and released in 2022. While it received some marketing push at launch, it did not achieve the sustained popularity of Scopely's top titles and its current community engagement is low. The probable daily active users are in the lower thousands, as the game serves a niche strategy mobile audience and is now over two years beyond launch.

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))