If Homeworld 3 were a spaceship, it would be all chrome plating and no engine. It tries so hard to dazzle you with pretty explosions and neon space clutter that it forgets the most important part: feeling like you're actually in space. Instead of the vast, majestic void of the earlier games, you're stuck flying capital ships through what feels like a zero-gravity junkyard. It's less "epic space opera" and more "cosmic garbage compactor."

The controls? Sluggish. The pacing? Slower than a freighter with a busted thruster. And the sense of scale that made the older games feel grand? Completely lost in the noise of floating debris and flashy lights. It's like they cranked up the graphics card and forgot to plug in the soul.

Honestly, if you're craving a Homeworld experience, skip this one and go play Homeworld 2 with the Complex Evo mod. That mod is what Homeworld 3 should’ve aspired to be—strategic, immersive, and actually fun. If the devs had used it as a template, we might’ve gotten something special. Instead, it feels like they assumed players are easily impressed by sparkles and forgot we have taste—and, you know, brains.

Short, but satisfying enough. Not nearly as bad as the other reviews make it sound. $25 is probably fair for what you get out of this. Not worth $60. It's an okay send off for the series that most people had already forgotten. It does leave things open for a continuance. I don't think there will be one.

On the gameplay side, fleets are still clunky and their decisions on when to engage frustrate and annoy, as does their introduction of the stealth mechanics which are required to complete the campaign. Long story short it's a bad implementation that makes some units take long paths and others take short paths, some end up exposed, some are not, your fleet is split, half the people die, and you save scum (again) because your men won't follow orders and want to go red turrets and frigates and stuff.

But when it works and you learn how to 'ball' properly it's pretty glorious. Just easy to lose that effectiveness.

Gameplay 6/10
Story 5/10
Sound 8/10
Graphics 8/10

Overall: 6.8

as a homeworld fan this was such a disappointment even deserts of kharak is a better space rts game