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Homeworld 3 cover art

Homeworld 3

Blackbird Interactive · Gearbox Publishing · 2024-05-13

SteamEpic Games Store

SimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: May 13, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

26
playing now
41%
positive of 8.7k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$29.99
steam price (US)

26 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Homeworld 3 is a real-time strategy video game developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Gearbox Software. The game was released on May 13, 2024.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 26 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 176 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (3,791 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 6,689 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 175k–393k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 8,729 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$17.65-71%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $16.63 at GreenManGaming (2026-06-05) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 85 of 131 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.2k2.2k20242026Week of 2024-05-01: 1,626 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2,165 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 299 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 117 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 101 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5492026-08-06 22:00 — 32 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 23 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 32 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 23 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 28 players2026-08-08 14:00 — 54 players2026-08-08 22:00 — 29 players2026-08-09 06:00 — 33 players2026-08-09 14:00 — 40 players2026-08-09 22:00 — 39 players2026-08-10 06:00 — 16 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 30 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 23 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 21 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 30 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 15 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 16 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 43 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 17 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 17 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 19 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 26 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 9 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 26 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 31 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 17 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 24 players2026-08-28 18:00 — 36 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 26 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.99$16.632022-05-192026-08-242022-05-19 — best price $99.992023-12-11 — best price $53.332024-05-01 — best price $50.992024-06-21 — best price $51.992024-08-26 — best price $59.992024-10-14 — best price $59.992024-10-28 — best price $41.272024-11-14 — best price $29.992024-11-23 — best price $26.092024-12-03 — best price $49.292024-12-22 — best price $28.262024-12-30 — best price $28.262025-01-09 — best price $59.992025-02-04 — best price $59.992025-03-10 — best price $59.992025-04-01 — best price $59.992025-05-09 — best price $26.402025-06-26 — best price $29.992025-10-15 — best price $49.992025-10-28 — best price $47.872025-11-12 — best price $30.002025-12-03 — best price $49.992025-12-19 — best price $25.592026-02-03 — best price $56.392026-02-17 — best price $23.992026-03-10 — best price $59.992026-03-27 — best price $30.002026-04-08 — best price $59.992026-05-07 — best price $29.992026-05-28 — best price $59.992026-06-16 — best price $51.992026-07-10 — best price $19.802026-07-22 — best price $59.992026-08-07 — best price $17.422026-08-24 — best price $17.65
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

105482026-05-27 — 72 pageviews2026-05-30 — 105 pageviews2026-06-02 — 83 pageviews2026-06-05 — 77 pageviews2026-06-08 — 93 pageviews2026-06-11 — 80 pageviews2026-06-14 — 48 pageviews2026-06-17 — 63 pageviews2026-06-20 — 60 pageviews2026-06-23 — 96 pageviews2026-06-26 — 58 pageviews2026-06-29 — 71 pageviews2026-07-02 — 89 pageviews2026-07-05 — 66 pageviews2026-07-08 — 58 pageviews2026-07-11 — 79 pageviews2026-07-14 — 63 pageviews2026-07-17 — 85 pageviews2026-07-20 — 80 pageviews2026-07-23 — 66 pageviews2026-07-26 — 59 pageviews2026-07-29 — 62 pageviews2026-08-01 — 54 pageviews2026-08-04 — 61 pageviews2026-08-07 — 64 pageviews2026-08-10 — 65 pageviews2026-08-13 — 70 pageviews2026-08-16 — 49 pageviews2026-08-19 — 60 pageviews2026-08-22 — 65 pageviews2026-08-23 — 67 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

35
achievements tracked
86.5%
earned "If You’ll Be My Bodyguard"
43.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsAdjustable Text SizeCamera Comfort7 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,3834%35

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DRTSCo-opSpaceCombatSci-fiStrategyTacticalReal-TimeRogue-like

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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