Homeworld 3

Homeworld 3

Released May 2024

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.

40% positive · 8,675 reviews
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All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Homeworld 3 launched on May 13, 2024 and received a full Year One roadmap of post-launch content, which has now been entirely delivered. The developer laid out a Year One plan in April 2024 [NEWS-20] covering paid DLC packs and free updates. After community feedback led to a restructuring of the plan [NEWS-3], all remaining content was consolidated into a single major November delivery. Update 1.3 shipped on November 21, 2024 [NEWS-2], bringing the Somtaaw and Taiidan Fleet Packs alongside sweeping combat, balance, and skirmish overhauls. This completed the Season Pass content. Critically, the November 18, 2024 developer update [NEWS-1] included a farewell message from the development team at Blackbird Interactive, explicitly addressing the game's future development. This statement signals that the team's active development work on Homeworld 3 has concluded. All seven listed DLC items are now released [DLC-1 through DLC-7], including the Season Pass and all three fleet packs. A follow-up hotfix (1.31) on December 18, 2024 [NEWS-7] addressed a GPU crash bug introduced by 1.3 — this is routine post-patch maintenance, not new content work. There have been no developer communications since December 18, 2024, no announcements of future content, and the Season Pass commitments have been fully honored. The game shipped as a complete package with its full planned post-launch content cycle now finished.
Evidence
Update 1.3 released with the final two Season Pass DLC packs (Somtaaw and Taiidan fleets) and comprehensive gameplay overhauls, completing the Year One roadmap.
news post · Nov 21, 2024 source content shipped
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All Season Pass content has been released — three fleet packs (Kalan Raiders, Somtaaw, Taiidan) shipped across August and November 2024. No unreleased DLC remains in the store listing.
dlc listing · Nov 21, 2024 source content shipped
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Content

7 of 7 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Gearbox Publishing
Achievements
35
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP

About this game





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.



Strategic freedom is yours. Hulking space derelicts called megaliths bring 3D terrain into the classic Homeworld battlespace. Use the crumbling remains of an ancient civilization to funnel foes into a brilliant ambush or hide your fleet from powerful enemies. Fortresses teem with menacing turrets and invite your strike craft into dangerous trench runs deep behind enemy lines. But not everything is in your control. Dangerous space phenomena like particle storms and asteroid fields will test even senior commanders.



Attack head-on, with a clever flank, or even from above and below your foes. Homeworld 3’s fully simulated ballistics make line of sight and cover critical strategic considerations. Your fleet persists from mission to mission. Scars on your ships linger. Strike craft pilots and capital ship captains pass along critical information through battlefield chatter.





Homeworld’s timeless art style evolves with modern technology, offering an incredible sense of scale, destruction, and wonder. Strike craft fly in formation between hulking Battlecruisers against a backdrop of stars and nebulae. Iconic ships cast silhouettes over the remains of ancient civilizations. Explosions ripple and erupt across hulls as one fleet stakes its victory over another.





Homeworld’s game-of-the-year winning story continues. Since the end of Homeworld 2, the galaxy enjoyed an age of abundance thanks to the Hyperspace Gate Network. Cycles of plenty and war have come and gone. Now the gates themselves are catastrophically failing and Karan, who has passed into myth and religious idolatry, is the key to the mystery threatening a galaxy’s future.





War Games, the all-new three player co-op mode extends your game beyond the campaign. Fusing Homeworld’s RTS gameplay with roguelike inspiration, commanders take on a randomized series of fleet combat challenges. Claim powerful Artifacts that augment your ships with more power, speed, and, of course, weapons. Based on your results, you’ll unlock new fleets to shake up your strategy.





Your ultimate test of tactical skill comes in battle against human opponents. Sharpen your instincts in AI skirmish matches, before squaring off with human opponents in 1v1, free-for-all, or team battles.



Mods allow players to craft their own content for Homeworld 3 and share it with players around the world. From rebuilding maps with megaliths, to augmenting ships, the Unreal game editor is at your fingertips. If direct creation isn’t your thing, enjoy the creativity of the community by downloading mods hassle-free through in-game mod.io integration.
Last evaluated Jun 18, 2026
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