Homeworld 3
Last updated: 2025-03-15
- Stunning visuals and immersive audio design.
- Enjoyable campaign captures Homeworld essence.
- Simplified gameplay and poor ship AI.
- Poor cutscene quality and disruptive pacing.
- Lacks tactical depth; chaotic battles ensue.
- Lacks content, overpriced, poor multiplayer experience.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 74%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 17%
- Protest reviews
- 9%
- 39%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 61%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 3343
- Negative points
- 6995
- Gameplay points
- 1407
- Perf. points
- 307
- Rec. points
- 1931
- Misc points
- 436
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Stunning visuals and immersive audio | The game delivers outstanding graphics, detailed ship models, and immersive sound design, creating a visually and aurally stunning Homeworld experience. Many reviewers specifically praise the art style, attention to detail, and overall aesthetic appeal, noting significant improvements over previous titles. The game successfully captures the essence of Homeworld's atmosphere. | 85% |
| Captures the Homeworld essence | The game successfully captures the essence of the Homeworld series, evoking nostalgia and delivering a familiar yet evolved experience. Reviewers appreciate the game's ability to retain the core elements of the franchise while introducing new features and improvements. The game's story, music, and atmosphere all contribute to a sense of continuity and connection to previous titles. | 58% |
| Enjoyable and engaging campaign | The campaign mode offers an enjoyable and engaging experience, with varied mission designs and strategic gameplay. Reviewers appreciate the campaign's ability to provide a challenging and rewarding experience, with many missions offering unique objectives and mechanics. The game is fun and immersive. | 35% |
| Fun and addictive War Games | The War Games mode is a fun and addictive addition to the game, offering a unique rogue-like experience with cooperative gameplay. Reviewers appreciate the mode's replayability, strategic depth, and potential for future content updates. The mode is well-designed and balanced, providing a challenging and rewarding experience for both solo and co-op players. | 17% |
| Varied gameplay and strategic depth | The game offers a variety of gameplay modes, including skirmish, multiplayer, and co-op, providing replayability and strategic depth. The game's unique combat system and 3D space battles offer a refreshing take on the RTS genre. The game's maps are well-designed and offer opportunities for strategic maneuvering and flanking. | 12% |
| Decent voice acting and story | The game features decent voice acting and an engaging story, with more character-driven narratives than previous installments. Reviewers appreciate the effort put into the cutscenes and the overall presentation of the story. The voice acting effectively conveys the emotions and personalities of the characters. | 8% |
| Improved ship balance and mechanics | Patch 1.3 and other updates have improved ship balance, AI, and gameplay mechanics. Ships now have more distinct roles, and capital ships attack properly. Quality of life improvements, such as auto-casting healing and the ability to select only damaged units, enhance the player experience. | 6% |
| Appealing mothership and ship designs | The new mothership design is appealing and well-received, with useful abilities and a visually impressive design. Reviewers appreciate the option to flip the mothership's orientation and the overall aesthetic of the ship designs. The mothership is more agile and effectively usable in combat. | 5% |
| Potential for future content | The developers have put a lot of effort into leaving room for more stories to be told in a very different way going forward. The game provides a more intimate and personal story, giving faces to characters previously only heard through radio chatter. The narrative leaves room for future campaigns exploring Karan's experiences and the antagonist's personal history. | 4% |
| Spectacular battlefield environment | The game's battlefield environment is visually stunning, with detailed explosions, debris, and megastructures creating a vast and destructive world. The game takes place in 3D space, allowing attacks from all directions. The environments tell a story and set the mood, with battles being visually spectacular. | 4% |