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Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy, Science fiction
OpenCritic79IGDB85
Before you can find your Homeworld, you must first unlock the secrets of the desert.
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Epic, plot-driven, clear and richly built.
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GamingTrendRon BurkeJan 201695/100While Blackbird's HD update of the original Homeworld titles may have shipped with a few nagging bugs, this original and inventive prequel reinvents the series in way I hardly even hoped could be possible. It's fresh but familiar. It's Homeworld, but it's something new. Like its story-chronological successors, Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is amazing — there's simply nothing else like it.
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PC GamerRob ZacnyJan 201690/100A great tactical RTS with all the gorgeous aesthetics and atmosphere of the original series.
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GameSpotDaniel StarkeyJan 20169/10Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is a prequel to the famed Homeworld Strategy series. It follows its inspirations closely, but adds its own touches to create something new and wonderful.
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Cubed3OfisilMar 20165/10Why exactly did Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak get so many favourable reviews? Sure, it has some interesting mechanics, like the mobile base, and, yes, it's not horrible, but it feels incomplete and… bland. The campaign is easy and short, the skirmish mode doesn't give enough things to experiment and try different strategies with, its two factions are almost identical, and the AI is quite stupid, to say the least. Want a good Homeworld game? Try out the previous two in the series.
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God is a GeekNick GillhamFeb 20166.5/10An interesting enough take on the genre that's let down by boring looks and frustrating little niggles.
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IGDB rating 8.3/10 from 38 ratings.
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