Games like homeworld?

[FizzMan]

Outside of Sins of a Solar Empire does anyone know of anymore obscure ones?

I remember there's one that opens up with a cut scene of "The first murder in space" but beyond that I cannot remember the name.

[[Dolt] Sastrei]

ORB, Star Wolves, Armada, Stellaris, Sins of a Solar Empire, Nebulous: Fleet Command, Stellar Warfare, Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

[Kobalt]

Very interesting ! I did not know Nebulous Fleet Command, looks great !

Sword of The Stars is an old space 4X with tactical phases considered by many to be the best in this genre. Maybe you could have a look at that one too.

[874020041]

try every thing but not enough... still the hw is better

[874020041]

"The first murder in space" : Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

[Mythos]

Endless Space 2. It's not an rts though, but it's still a great game.

[TheOrangeBox]

There are several games in developments on STEAM but they're literally a clone of Homeworld and with Homeworld 3 out this year not sure if they're worth the wait.
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Falling Frontier looks promising while not been the usual clone of a Homeworld - it's worth to watch for the release

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1280190/Falling_Frontier/

[TheOrangeBox]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/283160/House_of_the_Dying_Sun/

[TheOrangeBox]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1116050/ILL_Space/
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/616780/Age_of_Space/
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/807990/DangerSpace/
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113030/Stellar_Warfare/
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1252070/Star_Exodus/

[bongerman85]

Off World Resource Base- a.k.a. O.R.B.

[Sleepy_Walker]

I always figured haegemonia legions of iron was super close. I played both haegemonia and homeworld at roughly the same time and when I would get annoyed with one I would switch to the other.

Overall I liked Haegemonia better, but that is just because it was very pretty at the time, not too difficult, and I liked the tech trees/pace. Balance is more enjoyable, since you can toss most anything against stuff and be able to compensate with numbers or upgrades.

Might be impossible to run with a 10+ series Intel chip and/or windows 11. I think is still has a really bad audio glitch, but I keep reading about fixes.

[Bobby]

Here's an absolute classic that was released for the Matrox Millennium graphics card originally as a demo, but it's graphics, ship upgrades and interface are just way,way ahead of it's time. The battles, explosions are leagues ahead of HW and other Space sims.
I thoroughly recommend it as a must-have!
https://www.gog.com/en/game/nexus_the_jupiter_incident