Games like Homeworld 3
If Homeworld 3 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sins of a Solar Empire II, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition and Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, visually stunning space battles and bleak. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Homeworld 3 is a real-time strategy game set in fully 3D space, developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Gearbox Publishing. The game features an environmental strategy system where terrain and positioning play a central role in tactical decisions. Players command fleets in large-scale battles while managing unit pathing and formations across the battlefield. The campaign delivers a story-driven experience on a galactic scale. Online co-operative multiplayer is available alongside the single-player mode. Players describe the atmosphere as bleak and dark, and reviewers highlight that tactical positioning matters significantly in combat. The game runs at a normal difficulty with a medium length session, and it is playable on Steam Deck. It holds a 41% positive rating from approximately 3100 Steam reviews.
About Homeworld 3: 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.
Players who liked Homeworld 3 also play
Steam players who put hours into Homeworld 3 also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
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Top pick for Homeworld 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Homeworld 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Homeworld 3.
Third-strongest match for Homeworld 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
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.
TFC2: Collapse of The Bronze Age
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Ranked #4 for Homeworld 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Lead your small caravan on a great journey across the ancient world, in a story-driven RTS where protecting your family and friends matters more than conquest.
StrategySteam ↗AI War 2
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Ranked #5 for Homeworld 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
The most devious and acclaimed artificial intelligence in strategy gaming is better than ever. A grand strategy/RTS hybrid that reverses many conventions of both genres. Take territory without attracting attention, build your empire with care, and adapt to an ever-evolving galactic battleground.
Homeworld Remastered Collection
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Shares tactical positioning with Homeworld 3.
Ranked #6 for Homeworld 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Experience the epic space strategy games that redefined the RTS genre. Control your fleet and build an armada across more than 30 single-player missions. Choose unit types, fleet formations and flight tactics for each strategic situation.
Wargame: Airland Battle
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Ranked #7 for Homeworld 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
2 SIDES, 12 NATIONS, 750 UNITS: THE STRATEGY GAME REFERENCE IS BACK! Richer, more beautiful and more accessible, Wargame AirLand Battle is the sequel to the explosive real-time strategy game Wargame European Escalation! 1985.
Arvoch Alliance SE
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Ranked #8 for Homeworld 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Advanced First Person Space Flight Combat Simulation.
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NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
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Reviewers of Homeworld 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
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Reviewers of Homeworld 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
ERA ONE
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Reviewers of Homeworld 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Era One is an innovative space game that combines elements of real-time strategy, base building, space survival, and tactical battles. Players can create and customize their bases from scratch, construct various types of structures and warships, manage fleets, and engage in tactical space battles.
Star Wolves
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Reviewers of Homeworld 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Star wolves is a 3D space RPG with deep strategy and tactical elements. The game thrusts players into a world of freelance space hunters in the XXI-XXII century A.D. during a time of political crisis for the all-powerful Empire and the three mega-corporations that control all the known worlds.
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
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Reviewers of Homeworld 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."
Falling Frontier
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Reviewers of Homeworld 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Conquer a vast procedurally generated star system in Falling Frontier, a sci-fi RTS where intel and logistics are decisive factors. Design ships and raid enemy supply lines, lay minefields and construct recon stations, and ambush enemy forces within asteroid fields and nebulae.
Ace of Space
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Reviewers of Homeworld 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play.
You and your spaceship versus thousands of aliens! Blast through waves of aliens with upgradable spaceships in this sci-fi shoot ’em up game and become the Ace of Space!
Sins of a Solar Empire II
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Homeworld 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Battle for galactic dominance in this real-time 4X strategy game with unrivaled scale! You’ll explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate through military force, diplomacy, trade, culture, influence, and other underhanded tactics.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Homeworld 3 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~92% under Homeworld 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~75% under Homeworld 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~77% under Homeworld 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
BeamNG.drive
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Priced ~58% under Homeworld 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
Schedule I
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Priced ~67% under Homeworld 3 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Homeworld 3.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
The Forest
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Priced ~67% under Homeworld 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
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Priced ~83% under Homeworld 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Euro Truck Simulator 2
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Priced ~67% under Homeworld 3 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
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More from Blackbird Interactive
Other recommendable Steam games by Blackbird Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Escape the Backrooms
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Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Homeworld 3.
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
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Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Homeworld 3. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
Equipped with cutting-edge salvaging tech, carve & slice spaceships to recover valuable materials. Upgrade your gear to take on more lucrative contracts and pay your billion credits debt to LYNX Corp!
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Homeworld 3.
Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Homeworld 3. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
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.
Minecraft Legends
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Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Homeworld 3. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Discover the mysteries of Minecraft Legends, a new action strategy game. Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction. The ravaging piglins have arrived, and it’s up to you to inspire your allies and lead them in strategic battles to save the Overworld!
Crossfire: Legion
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Shares a bleak mood with Homeworld 3.
Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Homeworld 3. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Crossfire: Legion is a real time strategy game featuring tactical action in furious battles across a shattered version of the near future. Raise and customize your army to engage in intense online combat and carve your own path as you rise through the ranks. It’s a new generation of warfare.
Ambrosia Sky: Act One
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Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Homeworld 3. Shares Simulation with Homeworld 3.
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, explore treacherous environments, and find meaning and beauty in so much death—the first of two acts.
Earthless
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Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Homeworld 3. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
EARTHLESS is a sci-fi, roguelike deckbuilder where humankind has been thrust into the cosmic wind on a fleet of starships captained by you. To find a new home, you must draw your own path through the stars and play the hand you’re dealt. You are our hope in the darkness.
Company of Heroes - Definitive Edition
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Another title from Blackbird Interactive, the studio behind Homeworld 3. Shares Strategy with Homeworld 3.
Company of Heroes – Definitive Edition, features the original Company of Heroes along with the Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor Expansions, enhanced visuals, quality-of-life gameplay improvements, and 64-bit platform support.
Frequently asked about Homeworld 3
- Does Homeworld 3 run on Steam Deck?
- Homeworld 3 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Homeworld 3 cost?
- Homeworld 3 is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Homeworld 3 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Homeworld 3 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Homeworld 3?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Homeworld 3 are Sins of a Solar Empire II, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
- Who developed Homeworld 3?
- Homeworld 3 was developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Gearbox Publishing.
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