Funcom, developer of the upcoming Dune: Awakening, has issued a statement regarding the role of religion in the game after fan concerns erupted on the internet this week.
In Eurogamer’s preview of Dune: Awakening, Funcom chief creative officer Joel Bylos mentioned how “for the large part, we sort of sidestep religion” as part of the game’s “alternate history approach” – something which, as we wrote at the time, was likely to initially set Dune nerds’ alarm bells ringing.
But the decision to “sidestep” Dune’s overtly religious aspects in Awakening has been taken out of consideration for the series’ lore, our Chris Tapsell wrote, and refers to one “religious aspect” in particular. That said, religion is still a theme in the game – something seemingly evident by its focus on the Butlerian jihad: the war between humans and AI.
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