Homeworld 3 Review

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. But does this series' grand return mark a return to form? Let's find out!

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[Corusame]

I can't believe this is the first Homeworld game I've decided not to play.

[KingOfMadCows]

The animatics from the previous games were perfect. There was no reason to change them.

The game feels like it's taking one step forward and one step back. I love the space terrain and having all those megastructures actually on the game map whereas in the previous games they were only in the background. But they made the maps too restricted. The maps should be bigger and give you more room to fly around those megastructures instead of boxing you into them.

[aaronjohnson]

What award winning story? You crazy? They paid you?? Edit: ok, that was just the description.

[Turanic]

As a fan from 1999 :

All previous titles had stronger story, in fact they all had a decent enough story( presentation was not an issue here for me)

Hw3 story just is boring and has poorly written villain

Hw, Hw2, Cata all were slower games with bigger maps which made HW very distinct from other rts

In HW3:
Resourcing was automated
Angle of attack does not mean anything
Pathfinding not always works,
Subsystems abolished( that's a major flaw)
Maps seem small

Overall this game aint worth £35 I paid, this should be an optional £17 story addon to HW2


Overall game lacks in something compared to all previous titles
Lacks gameplay against HW2
Lacks story and map scale against HW1
Lacks sense of wonder and scale against HW: Cataclysm

The goods:
Nice graphics
Nice music
Little bugs
On Hard gameplay is still good though even though dumbed down compared even to Cataclysm

How would I rate each :
Hw : 100% Cata: 90% Hw2: 90 %
Dok: 80% Hw3 : 65 %

[TheDragonfly]

Im really conflicted. On one hand the fact that this game exists is a small miracle, on the other its really bad in couple major areas, The mistic and professional tone even in the face of extinction is gone, now we have engineers trowing jokes at commanding officers like its just another Thursday. Our main heroine is a little unstable kid that feels like is trying very had to have an arc. Game looks like hommeworld and sounds like it but plays like an esport wannabe rts, lacks many features that were groundbreaking 20 years ago and it feels like someone tried to self insert ego. Game itself has every single piece to be great, graphics, music, visual design, but fails everywhere else. If someone makes a Complex mod I will return to it but so far its not worth full price and fans attention.

[AlejandroTecman]

wait, I remmber in HM2 that when ou finished a mission a message said something like "every resource was collected" isnt this the same?

[ruhtraeel]

I'm actually so disappointed. I'm super grateful that they even tried to make another Homeworld again, but the atmosphere and minimalist storytelling really made the first two (especially HW1) amazing. On one hand, I don't want to buy it because it seems worse than the first two (until there are mods). On the other hand, I want to support the developers and I really hope that they try it again, taking feedback into account.

[wolfevickery]

Been watching this one of a while. Doesn't look like its worth $60 of my hard earned cash. Maybe on sale in a few years...but not for 15 hrs of gameplay.

[AngryKittens]

Seeing Hiigarans with generic Star Trek sci-fi uniforms and props feels wrong.
Seeing Karan S'Jet with hair feels very wrong.

[행성연방]

"Minimalistic homeworld" lol

[thecassell]

It's tough to hear all the negative reviews here. Maybe they should've included a book with this one like they did with the original.

[techstepman]

77? i already got a refund. We cant trust anyone any more.

[lulubeloo]

Gameplay was fun, but the maps felt too restrictive, and the writing felt so..one dimensional and infantilized. I mean, we have a queen navigator killing billions and throwing tantrums, and in the end we just forgive her, because she was lonely? Jesus Christ, who wrote this garbage?

[Lordfrankoo]

Great review, i agree with everithing sayed

[nekonari]

Here me out: EVE Online, but Homeworld +_+

[orkhepaj]

DEI infested game, do not buy, it has bad ai, lackluster battles, bad multiplayer.

[alltja]

The game have so many faults its hard to say whats worst. Story is horrible, campaign flow is not good, units don't follow orders, the missions themselves are well made, but to much story (did I say the story is BAD), maps are small, very small, controlls are worse than the former games, and on top Denuvo. Enjoy, this was the death of a great game series.

[mackjsm]

They had to put that one black guy there..

[salvatore]

This game was a disaster on pre release for some of us with early access and the steam reviews are showing it, the game was poorly made, a part from graphics and sound, its a terribly made rts game.