To understand why players are Buy Solari so sharply critical of Dune: Awakening’s dungeons, it helps to compare with better examples. What do great MMOs do, and where does Awakening deviate?

Exemplar MMOs & What They Get Right

• World of Warcraft (classic dungeon formula): Themes, pacing, boss phases, trash mobs with variations, environmental hazards (lava, falling platforms, etc.).

• Destiny 2: Puzzle segments, jump puzzles, unique modifiers, “light and dark” themes, and visually stunning dungeons with soundtrack, lighting, and mechanics that demand coordination.

• Final Fantasy XIV: Storytelling within dungeons, interesting set pieces, boss fights that break from formula, movement mechanics, visual variety, and reward systems that feel meaningful.

• The Division / The Dark Zone content: If you want something more survival‑adjacent, these often force you to adapt your loadout, deal with persistent threats, dynamic environments.

How Dune: Awakening Falls Short

• Lack of mechanical diversity: As noted, many rooms are just melee + shield + ranged dart enemies. No real puzzles, traps, mobility challenges. Few surprises. 

• Combat sluggishness: When the feel of both ranged and melee combat is weak, it undercuts the satisfaction of overcoming difficulty. Enemies with shields force melee, but melee is poorly responsive. That mismatch is painful. 

• Visual monotony: Without variation in setting, architecture, hazards, or lore embedded in the walls, dungeons feel like generic “lab under the desert” rather than slice of Arrakis with mystery. Other MMOs spend time differentiating zones, themes, “signature styles” for each dungeon. Awakening often does not. 

• Reward vs time investment: In some MMOs, what you get scales with risk and novelty—not just loot drops but achievements, narrative, access to further content. In Awakening, the loot is good, but is it enough to make the repeated slog feel meaningful? Players seem to think not. 

Where Dune: Awakening Has Strengths That Could Be Leveraged

• The world itself — the desert, danger, survival mechanics — is evocative. Surviving sandstorms, managing hydration, avoiding sandworms: these are compelling. 

• The base‑building and crafting systems are engaging and detailed. For players who like resource gathering, forging items, customizing gear, there is meat here. 

• The Dune Awakening Solari on sale here  scope of the world, open world risk, environmental threats (sandstorms, etc.) offer a backdrop other MMOs don’t always have. If the dungeons could tap into that backdrop — bringing outside dangers in, or making dungeons part of the environment rather than sealed corridors — that could improve things hugely.