Following a head-start for pre-purchasers, Dune: Awakening is now officially available on Steam for Windows, offering a multiplayer survival game set on the unforgiving world of Arrakis from the Dune novels and movies. The PC launch comes with the news that console gamers can expect this to arrive on PlayStation and Xbox some time next year. A new trailer called Your Path to Awakening is here to introduce the game. Pour yourself a refreshing glass of recycled water and read on for more:

More than just survival, Dune: Awakening offers a large-scale, persistent and highly immersive world with social hubs bustling with other players, server-wide politics and intrigue, and a cinematic storyline that will leave you at the edge of your seat.

The Fremen have vanished. Paul Atreides was never born. Lady Jessica obeyed the Bene Gesserit and gave birth to a girl. Duke Leto Atreides survived the assault on Arrakeen and is now locked in a brutal conflict with the Harkonnen over Arrakis and its precious spice.

In this unique but still familiar take on the iconic sci-fi universe of Dune, you begin as a prisoner sent to Arrakis to uncover the mystery of the Fremen’s disappearance. Following in the footsteps of the mysterious desert tribe, you will learn the true meaning of desert power as you rise from a nameless survivor to becoming an agent of the Atreides or the Harkonnen.

Alone, with friends, or any of the hundreds of players you share Arrakis with, can you survive the most dangerous planet in the universe?