- Hilarious in Hindsight: The initial backlash caused by the pre-release reveal the game wouldn't be based on the Westwood version of the Dune franchise (i.e. "no House Ordos") became this in retrospect, when the first DLC introduced a faction similar to House Ordos.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some elements of the game's interpretation of the Dune franchise resulted in a backlash from vocal minorities of the fandom since Dune: Spice Wars announcement. It seems to have died down a couple of weeks after the game's early access release, though.
- The game version of Liet-Kynes is based on their portrayal from the 2021 film (where the character is a woman played by the black British actress Sharon Duncan-Brewster) instead of the character's description from the novel (where the character is a blonde man). The game's discussion board on Steam contains a lot of threads complaining about her character design.
- The Truer to the Text premise of the game wasn't appreciated by fans of the older Dune Westwood RTS games, who wanted a pure C&C-like RTS instead of a 4X-RTS hybrid. Other "change" criticized included the Atreides no longer being blue and the lack of House Ordos, two elements that weren't in the canon franchise but are original to Westwood's version to begin with. Ironically, the Harkonnen being red is also original to Westwood's versionnote .
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