Homeworld Remastered Collection

Homeworld Remastered Collection

Fair · Strategy · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$34.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$3.4990% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$1.67/hr
Reviews▼
88% of 14,223
Critics
86 players 2 higher
Genre rank
Top 7% Strategy

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
It needs 17% off ($28.94) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
21h
To 100%
32.4h 1.5x the story
Achievements
34

Price and sales

Sales
74 on record
Typical cut
90% off
Steam low
$3.49 June 2020
Sale every
45d last October 2026
Lowest now $4.54 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.00 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
86 now
Cheaper than
2% of its genre
Better reviewed
93% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

55% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 74 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack ($19.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Nexus - The Jupiter Incident ($9.99, scores 53).

More about Homeworld Remastered Collection

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 820 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 16 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.67/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds3 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

TLDR: Amazing - but buy it on GoG if you want it to run stable. Homeworld and Homeworld 2 are masterpieces. Unparalleled games from Relic at their peak. Shame about HW3. That was truly dreadful. This collection is all you need. And Cataclysim (or 'emergence' as it's now known for some reason). I recommend these games highly (plus the remastered collection also contains the classic HW and HW2 if you really want to go...
JayplesRecommendedafter 51h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review
Very fun base game and some of the greatest mods I've ever played on a game, but the mods are great cause of the mechanics and the game they mod. So if you want my 2 cents, play the base game first, then try some mods. But all up to you.
A.C.LegenderRecommendedafter 84hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (512MB) / ATI Radeon HD4800 (512MB), 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Cite this score

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Homeworld Remastered Collection scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/244160/homeworld-remastered-collection
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+2
Critics86
Players88
Metacritic critics · 14,223 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperGearbox Software
PublisherGearbox Publishing
GenreStrategy
Released2015
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements34