Homeworld 3
Skip · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Length
- 9.4h
- Value
- $6.38/hr
- Reviews
- 41% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($29.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 67% ($19.79)
- Last discount ended
- 24 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060/AMD RX 480/Intel ARC A380, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $19.79. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 18 in the 3 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak ($49.99, scores 37) and Sins of a Solar Empire II ($49.99, scores 41) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 38 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 25 percent of the 493 reviews written there were positive, against 41 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
87% start to 27% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
23 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 09:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Holy heck this was a let down. From the heights of HW1 and HW2 theres is this fking thing, from unskippable cutscene after unskippable cutscene, seriously seven minutes at the start of one mission, the majority showing that bad guys are flying ships and going to attack you. To re-writing the bad guys of HW2 into discriminated against minorities. You all know what sort of person worked on this and ruined this...
what a stupid sequel, with the emotional depth of a toddler. the missions are bland and rehashes of previous games. the plot is weak and rushed. with no attachment to any of the characters except for some notion of nostalgia. 98745623948578345 people died or whatever and the characters are like oh damn, anyway. the ai sucks getting killed without firing a shot. on the only bright side. the ships looks goodish. the...
This is a positive review with a couple of caveats...I got this on a pretty steep discount, and that's about the only time I would recommend it to someone; if you can get it cheap enough and you are a fan of this sort of game. It is middling. Not a terrible game, and not a great one either. I was a huge fan of the original Homeworld and Homeworld 2 (unfortunately never played Cataclysm) and even bought the remasters...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Homeworld 3 scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1840080/homeworld-3Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Oct 1.
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