Dune: Spice Wars
Fair · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$34.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$13.9960% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.84/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 13,649
- Genre rank
- Top 11% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.3h
- To 100%
- 79.8h 6.5x the story
- Achievements
- 102
Price and sales
- Sales
- 34 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $13.99 June 2025
- Sale every
- 42d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 162 now
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 76% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
86% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
34 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Northgard: Definitive Edition ($34.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Anno 2205™ ($39.99, scores 25).
More about Dune: Spice Wars
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 14 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 1,020 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 12.3 hours; clearing it takes 80, which is 6.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 4 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
For me it is the best Dune experience. You have multiple options to win the game. Economy, politics, military dominance, spying... it's Dune at its core
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If you are a dune fan this checks all the boxes. Old school nostalga with a modern edge and a dash of boardgame feel. Very nice.
TL;DR - it's playable and nice if you like Dune. It is NOT like the Dune RTS at all. Only get it on heavy discount. I really like this game - to a point. I love the Dune universe. I love 4x games. This is a really nice puddle in terms of content depth. It feels like it was under-funded and barely a strategy game. It's a little bit "strategy game for dummies" which is nice at first and can be nice to keep things a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A 4X real-time strategy game from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. Set in Frank Herbert’s groundbreaking Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX550, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dune: Spice Wars scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1605220/dune-spice-warsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.