Unfortunately, not all the leaders are created equally. When the game begins, everyone has a 10 card deck, 2 agents (workers), 1 water resource, and a unique leader with a special starting power and an additional special ability that can be triggered whenever their player plays a card with the Signet Ring icon. Out of dozens of non-solo plays, the largest score gap I’ve had was only 3 VP between the winner and the lowest scoring player. Even with so many ways to gain VP, actually getting VP is hard and the scoring is often very tight.
(VP can go over 10, but gaining 10 is a trigger for the end of the game.) VP can be earned in a lot of different ways: by winning some conflicts, by currying favor with the 4 different factions, by the effects of Intrigue cards, and by buying player cards or using player card effects. The game ends after 10 rounds or after anyone achieves 10 VP. Similar to many modern games, you are trying to accrue more victory points (VP) than your competitors. In Dune: Imperium, you play as one of the major figures from one of the major houses in the Dune franchise. Perhaps this should be unsurprising as Dune: Imperium has the benefit of pedigree: Dune: Imperium is designed by Paul Dennen and published by Dire Wolf Digital – both of which are responsible for the very successful Clank! series of games, which is another deck building hybrid (nominally deck builder + dungeon crawler). However, in my opinion, Dune: Imperium is better, does more, and is slightly cheaper. Both it and Lost Ruins of Anark, the other hybrid, are successes that are undoubtedly worth your time.
Released in 2020, Dune: Imperium was one of two games to attempt to create a hybrid deck building and worker game in 2020. Dune: Imperium is either revolutionary or majorly evolutionary (depending on your point of view) – and is an amazing experience. Yes, I think you should probably play it – but you might want to play it before buying it, or at least read the rest of this review first. Wait, wait – before you go off to buy Dune: Imperium, the story is a little more complicated than a one line summary. If you haven’t played Dune: Imperium, you probably should: 100/100.
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