Homeworld 3

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About the Game Tactical, beautiful, and wholly unique, the GOTY-winning sci-fi RTS returns with Homeworld 3. Assume control and battle through fleet combat in dazzling, fully 3D space while the award-winning story unfolds on a galactic scale.

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5288 reviews
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Developer:
Blackbird Interactive
Publisher:
Gearbox Publishing
Engine:
Unreal Engine 4
Release date:
13 May 2024
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Mixed (5288)

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Description

About the Game





Tactical, beautiful, and wholly unique, the GOTY-winning sci-fi RTS returns with Homeworld 3. Assume control and battle through fleet combat in dazzling, fully 3D space while the award-winning story unfolds on a galactic scale.



Strategic freedom is yours. Hulking space derelicts called megaliths bring 3D terrain into the classic Homeworld battlespace. Use the crumbling remains of an ancient civilization to funnel foes into a brilliant ambush or hide your fleet from powerful enemies. Fortresses teem with menacing turrets and invite your strike craft into dangerous trench runs deep behind enemy lines. But not everything is in your control. Dangerous space phenomena like particle storms and asteroid fields will test even senior commanders.



Attack head-on, with a clever flank, or even from above and below your foes. Homeworld 3’s fully simulated ballistics make line of sight and cover critical strategic considerations. Your fleet persists from mission to mission. Scars on your ships linger. Strike craft pilots and capital ship captains pass along critical information through battlefield chatter.





Homeworld’s timeless art style evolves with modern technology, offering an incredible sense of scale, destruction, and wonder. Strike craft fly in formation between hulking Battlecruisers against a backdrop of stars and nebulae. Iconic ships cast silhouettes over the remains of ancient civilizations. Explosions ripple and erupt across hulls as one fleet stakes its victory over another.





Homeworld’s game-of-the-year winning story continues. Since the end of Homeworld 2, the galaxy enjoyed an age of abundance thanks to the Hyperspace Gate Network. Cycles of plenty and war have come and gone. Now the gates themselves are catastrophically failing and Karan, who has passed into myth and religious idolatry, is the key to the mystery threatening a galaxy’s future.





War Games, the all-new three player co-op mode extends your game beyond the campaign. Fusing Homeworld’s RTS gameplay with roguelike inspiration, commanders take on a randomized series of fleet combat challenges. Claim powerful Artifacts that augment your ships with more power, speed, and, of course, weapons. Based on your results, you’ll unlock new fleets to shake up your strategy.





Your ultimate test of tactical skill comes in battle against human opponents. Sharpen your instincts in AI skirmish matches, before squaring off with human opponents in 1v1, free-for-all, or team battles.



Mods allow players to craft their own content for Homeworld 3 and share it with players around the world. From rebuilding maps with megaliths, to augmenting ships, the Unreal game editor is at your fingertips. If direct creation isn’t your thing, enjoy the creativity of the community by downloading mods hassle-free through in-game mod.io integration.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS:
Windows 10 64-bit/Windows 11 64-bit
Processor:
Intel i5-6600/AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
Memory:
12 GB RAM
Graphics:
Nvidia GTX 1060/AMD RX 480/Intel ARC A380
Storage:
40 GB available space
Sound Card:
OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

recommended*

OS:
Windows 10 64-bit/Windows 11 64-bit
Processor:
Intel i5-9600K/AMD Ryzen 5 3600X
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
Nvidia GTX 1080 TI/AMD RX5700/Intel ARC A580
Storage:
40 GB available space
Sound Card:
OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

User reviews

Castyr
Not recommended | 18 Jun 2026
7.0h played

HW 1/2 were some of my favorite games growing up and 3 builds on some of what made them so unique and great. The gameplay and strategy is fantastic. Where the game is unforgivable is the story and writing. The campaign

Helpful: 47
Lynxxyarly
Not recommended | 15 Jun 2026
7.2h played

An absolute shell of a its former self. I regret backing this on Fig, back in like 2018-2019. You can follow the development timeline and see when the shift occurred where the game fell off a cliff, in terms of quality,

Helpful: 25
Marin4usaka
Not recommended | 13 Jun 2026
9.6h played

Horribly bad AI and ship pathfinding, orders you give simply auto-cancel 25% of the time and the 3D map is practically unusuable unlike previous iterations. Also the mission maps are super small and nothing more than

Helpful: 21
Ashuri_Rai
Not recommended | 22 Jun 2026
4.5h played

I really, REALLY want to like this game as a series fan since the original game, but it feels so far from what Homeworld was that I honestly dont think the devs understood what game it was they were trying to make. on

Helpful: 21
Onedeath
Not recommended | 01 Jul 2026
15.6h played

I waited until this game was on deep discount, but I didn't wait long enough. Homeworld 3 is a major disappointment. The story is weak, rushed, and has almost no meaningful character development. The cutscenes are

Helpful: 10
Nerukau
Recommended | 09 Jul 2026
10.3h played

It's just okay Homeworld 3 was one of my most anticipated games. When it came out and the reception was average at best, I held off buying it for quite a while. Thanks to the summer sale I could buy it very cheap. So

Helpful: 8