Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line 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
$49.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9990% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.85/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 8,949
- Critics
- 79
- Genre rank
- Top 35% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.3h
- To 100%
- 18.1h 1.8x the story
- Achievements
- 48
Price and sales
- Sales
- 62 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 June 2020
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 19 now
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 76% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
75% start to <1% rarestThis 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
It has been discounted 62 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 35 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Homeworld Remastered Collection ($34.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Homeworld 3 ($59.99, scores 2).
More about Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 751 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 10 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
What players say
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak surprised me. I enjoyed it much more than the previous Homeworld games, and the presentation is one of its strongest points. The campaign feels very cinematic, and the game does a good job of making the expedition feel important rather than simply moving the player from one mission to another. The problem is that the campaign starts repeating itself too much. After a strong beginning...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A ground-based RTS prequel to the classic Homeworld games. Assemble your fleet and lead them to victory on the shifting sands of Kharak in this compelling strategy game for PC from Blackbird Interactive.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, GeForce GT 440 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 4890 (1024 MB), 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/281610/homeworld-deserts-of-kharakReviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.