Games like Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
If Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is your kind of game, the closest matches are Homeworld 3, Supreme Commander 2 and Homeworld Remastered Collection — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmosphere is excellent, compelling story and production quality is high. 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: Deserts of Kharak is a ground-based strategy game set on a desert planet and serves as a prequel within the Homeworld series. It features 3D terrain, ground warfare with a cover system, and persistent unit progression across its campaign missions. Players must manage micromanagement and pathfinding through challenging tactical scenarios. Reviewers describe the atmosphere as excellent and dark, with a compelling story and high production quality that makes the strategy and visuals enthralling. The game released in 2016 by Blackbird Interactive, published by Gearbox Publishing, at $49.99 USD. It holds a 78% positive rating from over 5,200 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak: 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.
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Shares a dark mood with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Top pick for Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
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.
Supreme Commander 2
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Second-strongest match for Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Includes 47 Steam achievements, leaderboards, and stats!
Homeworld Remastered Collection
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Third-strongest match for Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
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.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
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Ranked #4 for Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
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.
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Ranked #5 for Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
In Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity, you are the leader of a civilization embroiled in a galactic war, fighting for the survival of your entire race against relentless foes.
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Ranked #6 for Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
SPACECOM – a strategic-to-the-bone, starfleet command game in which deception, smart movement, and choices to battle decide victory or defeat.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution
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Shares a dark mood with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Ranked #7 for Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
Command any of the six unique factions in the next standalone expansion of the critically acclaimed Dawn of War real-time strategy franchise. Choose to build a massive army or lead a small squad of elite heroes into battle and experience a single player campaign customized to your favorite race.
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Homeworld 3
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Shares a dark mood with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
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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.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
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Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 is the new real-time strategy game adapted from Games Workshop’s famous tabletop game that portrays the epic space battles of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
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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.
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
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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.
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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.
Genesis Rising
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Homeworld 3
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Shares a dark mood with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
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Crossfire: Legion
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Shares a cinematic mood with Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.
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Frequently asked about Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
- Does Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak run on Steam Deck?
- Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak 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: Deserts of Kharak cost?
- Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is listed on Steam at 49.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak are Homeworld 3, Supreme Commander 2, Homeworld Remastered Collection.
- Who developed Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak?
- Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak was developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Gearbox Publishing.
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