Featuring the cooperative game system used in Portal's award-winning Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game, Dune: House Secrets delivers a deeply thematic experience that drops one to four players into the harsh desert planet of Arrakis.
In this story-driven adventure game, players take on the role of rebels who must solve a series of challenging missions with a limited amount of time and resources. Players make decisions together about how the story will proceed as they decide to explore different regions of the world, follow clues, use allies, and overcome all kinds of opposition. During play, players use a variety of physical and digital game components – a card deck with essential clues and plot twists, a dozen physical handouts, and a dedicated website with additional resources – to take the story in fun and surprising directions for a truly immersive experience .
Starting with an introductory prologue designed to introduce players to the vast Dune universe, the game continues with three major adventures, each taking approximately two to three hours to complete. During each episode, players can earn experience points to level up their characters between missions and unlock new options in future gameplay. Each adventure can be played individually as standalone episodes, but if players complete all three episodes, they will unravel a master-game story with an epic climax and unforgettable resolution with lasting impact on the future two games in the trilogy.