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  • Adaptation Displacement: The game received some attention in the late 2010s for getting an unexpected fan-made porn parody remake named Behind the Dune made initially in Adobe Flash. For obvious reasons, it received much more attention than the obscure game it is remaking.
  • Game-Breaker: The Harkonnens never attack empty sietches or sietches that are too far away from Harkonnen territory. If you keep all of your troops safely away from Harkonnen fortresses, you are never going to get attacked. Of course, you do need to wipe out the Harkonnens to win the game, but you can gather all of your army troops in a single sietch, and the Harkonnens are never going to gather an army big enough to defeat them.
  • Nightmare Fuel: If the player dies for any reason, they are treated to a surprisingly graphic time-lapsed cutscene of Paul's body rotting in the desert, followed by either gloating from whoever was responsible for his death or mourning from one of his friends.
  • No Problem with Licensed Games: While not as well known as its sister game, Dune is still an excellent Point-and-Click Adventure Game that takes inspiration from the 1984 movie, but deviates enough to have its own identity. The pixel art has a high level of detail and the soundtrack is considered one of gaming's best, so much so that it got its own dedicated album release, something largely unheard of at the time.
  • Polished Port: The CD version added Pre-Rendered Cutscenes for traveling scenes, clips from the 1984 movie, and full voice acting with tweaked graphics to accommodate it. The Sega CD port retained all these additions but had to lower the quality of the graphics and movie clips.

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