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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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.71/day in the week to Aug 26 → 0.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,515 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Reviews
Themes across 842 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
They don't make 'em like this anymore.
good old game. it was nice to play campaign again.
good
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14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Sep 11: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish*languages with full audio support
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| 88% |
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 845 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
I like rts games a lot somehow this franchise slipped under my radar, Came across the remaster of 1 and 2 like playing a few missions, found a review that said playing deserts of kharak before 1 and 2 is not a bad idea so here we are. A lot of people complaining it is not Homeworld, and since I barely hit 100 hours in this franchise I feel like I have no right to speak, but the vibes setting etc really feel like it even the desert battles somehow kind of play out like space skirmishes. This game in early develiopment used to be a different game called Hardware shipbreakers, sort of a Homeworld spinoff, because THQ had the ip and was doing nothing with it, but somehow the devs got the IP back and worked with what they could to build what they could. I like the big stretched deserts and the feeling of scale when battling. It is not 3d spacebattles for shure but I feel like a lot of the essence of the other homeworlds got caught here in this game. Great prequel!
Dans la suite des Homeworlds 1 et 2, Desert of Kharak reprend le même principe artistique. Seulement ici l'idée du désert est directement relié à la physique du terrain et de ce qui le compose. Une campagne qui nous remémore les bons moments des anciens jeux. Des voix et des détails semblables aux précédents mais toujours aussi agréable à suivre. Je recommande dans un but de continuer à découvrir une partie de l'histoire et des nouvelles fonctionnalités apportées au jeu. Cependant les stratégies se révèlent limités en raison d'un plateau plutôt que d'un espace dans lequel nos unités évolue. Attention aux fans du genre la résolution des problèmes se révèlent plus simple que les anciens opus. Je recommande pour les nouveaux joueurs, découvrir se petit bijoux vous permettre une belle immersion dans cette belle création qu'est Homeworld.
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Desert of Kharak habe ich auf der höchsten Stufe durchgespielt, ich fand es als Vorgeschichte zum alten Homeworld 1 Ideal. Es lohnt sich für jeden der das erste Homeworld geliebt hat, da ist es fast schon eine Pflicht. Technisch gab es keine Probleme was bei Steam ja nicht immer gegeben ist. Das Ende war fast schon zu Simpel, aber es hat insgesamt sehr viel Spaß gemacht und Nostalgie zurückgebracht. Daher von mir die vollen 5 Sterne und eine klare Empfehlung!
Still Fun
One of my first ever experiences getting into RTS genre, even though the game is a decade old it still has a small community who gather to play few times a week. Highly recommended
This is the way!! Not quite worth $50 though. Short campaign, but great gameplay.
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