Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak Reviews

very fun RTS, my first Homeworld but a very good story, gameplay, soundtrack, vehicles !

The campaign was very engaging and I really enjoyed it, even though it was linear. The skirmish play was less entertaining as the AI tends to saturate itself with resource harvesters versus combat units which means they eventually are easy targets due to unit limits. I've not done PvP as the prevailing strategy in this type of game is simply who can zerg-rush the other the fastest. Overall I though this was a good game and has potential if they make more campaign content.

it's a fun game, but goddam is it buggy. there's a strike fighter bug where eventually some of your stirke fighters refuse to launch, preventing their use for the rest of the campaign, AND YOU CAN'T SALVAGE THEM, so it's just a dead aircraft slot you'll never see again. THIS HAS BEEN A BUG SINCE RELEASE. FIX IT GODDAMMIT.

Style and story is just like Homeworld. Gameplay just as exciting and enjoyable. An excellent prequel to the original series. Lovely artwork too. I am really enjoying the story arc.

Really had fun playing this game, but would like to see more maps for skirmishes.

Why the F...k that Game runns Epic Games aplications ?

A great Game, I like the Story! However it was to short, you want more after this. would be lovely if there where more stories comming

It's Homeworld in the desert. I think they translated the gameplay to "2D" pretty well and they still tell a pretty good story. The graphics leave a little to be desired, but they're not bad. The vehicle designs are good, sound effects are great, music is spot-on.

retroactively adding epic game service "requirements"...

I only recommend if you are a RTS fun & play all the over big tittles 6/10 Recently bought the homeworld games and started with this prequel. (never played homeworld before) Well first of all bravo to the devs with what they did to unity many levels hide the ugly engine with particle effects, and the particle effects in this game are top notch. Cutscenes combine engine scenes with moving paintings and painted 3d models. Very smoothly fiting togheter. And leaving a beautifull impression behind. Now the pro's and con's PRO - Original and engaging story - 3h hindu inspired OST that is amazing - I can keep my fleet over the missions - Or choose the default fleet if you mess up last mission - Saving during missions + checkpoints - Overall visually great RTS if you don't look to hard for unity flaws - I love the overview map that lets me zoom out a lot and macro manage NEG - Very short campaign, I did 30h but played most missions 3 times for max efficiency - Ending felt a little empty but you have 2 remastred games to continue with - Multiplayer, haha ooh and so many achievements for it, no its DEAD - No pause or screenshot mode - A very large portion of cutscenes are in the trailers, avoid to keep it fresh ingame - I had one 'bug' in mission 4 by killing a unit that should not be there but overall no other bugs KEYBOARD SPECIAL - This is really stupid and will put off untech savy people but you can not rebind the controls, There is a VERY EASY way to use autokey so you can use ESC and WASD for menu and movement respectively (F10 and ◄↕► on default). Still how on earth did they not start with this feature from dev day 1 it is really easy to do. Harder to shoe horn in later. CONCLUSION The campaign is very scripted and if you replay the missions you might exploit that a little. But that is on you. I bought the game for the story first. RTS second, not very good at them and I finished on highest difficulty no problem. AI is much harder in skirmish and mp modes. Overall I had a great time.