🌌Homeworld like games | RTS games with 3D Space fleet combat & building for PC - released & upcoming 

Great video! Looking forward to your other lists!

Awesome to see love and attention for Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. One of the best space games and fleet games ever created. Thank you!

Nexus was SO good. It's a crime it never got a continuation. Actually all the games listed are FANTASTIC. Disregard any Steam rating, if it's space combat you're looking for these will fill your time, leaving you wanting more.

Thanks for having my game Ephemeris on your list again!

Absolutely insane quality video! I might not play these games mentioned but I quickly hit the subscribe button as soon as I finished the video because I loved how you explained all the necessary details about the games and included actual gameplay clips instead of cinematics. Loved it!

ERA ONE will be the homeworld we all wished for.

Something surprising about this is how many Homeworld-like games existed back when Homeworld was a fairly new IP.

Thanks for the video, I was looking for a piece of information like this for a while. Most other videos consider "Is it in space? Then it is like Homeworld" while you really went the correct route. Good job!

Great vid! Great sugestions! I will for sure try some of the old gems

Stellar Warfare is amazing! Sure it's definitely an indie title, but one made with a lot of passion. I bought for my brother and myself this past weekend and we had a blast! The fleet editor with custom fleets and unlocking new parts, ships, and weapons is a highlight. I hope more people give it a shot because I really enjoyed it with what's there.

Thank you! I played this back then but forgot the name. Thx for digging this up! Fargate was so frustrating but i loved the designs

Loved to play HW Remaster, except that one campaign mission that was bugged due to mechanics changed to HW2 but I managed find a workaround to that so overall experience was great. Almost like in childhood =) Nexus: The Jupiter Incident - looks like just a game for me. Now the hardest part - to find a time to actually try it. Ancient Space - has some interesting elements. Wonder why it was underloved so much. I won't comment SWf cause I'm too biased towards loving it =P Thx for featuring it tho! Genesis looks like Star Craft that are actually about 'star craft' and not a War Craft in space =) No hate to SC. ORB and Far Gate made me sad that those weren't sold in my country when they were released. Now even if I buy them - most likely only to sit on the steam shelf never to be touched. =( I wish big success to the Ephemeris (or whatever it will be named on release). It has great potential and a nice dev (at least they are nice on the discord). I just hope it will avoid all them indie dev pitfalls. Dust Fleet looks promising.

Star Wolves, Fragile Existence & Falling Frontier: Are we a joke to you?

Oh... O.R.B. I still remember days when I played it. My favorite moment when in skirmish mode vs AI I send my carrier to jump out from a battle and this thing jumped directly trough enemy battleship(press F to both)

Excited for the second list !

Nexus The Jupiter Incident’s designs have been formative on world building of my own sci-fi setting I loved it so much

Surprised how many of these I've already played. Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, Ancient Space, Haegemonia, Legions of Iron, Battlefleet Gothic-Armada 2 (also played 1), Sins of a Solar Empire

I have to mention Star Wolves series. It's a mix of the 3D space RTS gameplay with party rpg

Share with us which have you played and liked, and what new ones are you looking forward to that are similar to Homeworld! Also your favorite Homeworld moments would be lovely to read!

X Beyond the Frontier (X1 the beginning of the X series currently at X4 with XBTF being played through by Drew Wager on RU-vid) and Homeworld were both 1999 games a great year for the Genre.

Looking forward to that second list of games. Homeworld and Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion are probably my 2 fav games, but Sins slightly edges it due to its 4X characteristics and ability of sandbox roleplay. I am rather sure i am aware of every game like that, fitting my personal criteria, but perhaps there is some mysterious gem i never heard of, that you will include, so i am definitely curious. Regarding this list, i think old game from 1997 called Star Command Revolution deserves a mention. Its not fully 3D like HW, or actually 3D at all, but it revolves around mothership, thats the only unit that can move between interconnected sectors, while every sector has some enemy, you need to remove, before advancing to the wormhole leading to another sector on the other side of the map (sector). Sometimes there is more of these wormholes, so you can actually choose, which way to go and actually you can move back and forth with the mothership. On every sector you can then harvest resources and build bunch of structures and units. The key element of the game are those resources, its 5 of them, they are finite and persistent across all the sectors, 4 of them are used to build specific types of units, that are hard counters to other units. So it can happen to you, if you are wasteful with them, at some point of the "campaign" it may happen to you, that you lack specific resource to build essential unit type to defeat enemy in that particular sector. All in all, it was very unique game, but very fun and entertaining, having the classic rts elements like unit construction and resource management, while being rather action based and oriented on unit micro-management. Despite that, i feel its rather obscure and unjustly overlooked - unfortuntely it had to compete with Starcraft back in the day. Anyway I believe it does by itself deserve its own video from you.

Nebulous: Fleet Command. As a long-term enjoyer of Homeworld 2 and Remaster I can say confidently that Nebulous plays almost exactly like Homeworld. While it possesses smaller-scale naval warfare on the scale of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2, it's intricate fleet customization and sheer depth of gameplay more than make up for it and actually meshes very well with said smaller scale.

Man, the list keeps growing.

For me Imperium Galactica 2 is the complete and primal masterpiece. There is no other game the puts all those elements together, in a single art game. IG2 has everything we need in a game, of course that with the chronological considerations. It has star wars in a 3D plan, colony management, merchant relations, diplomatic relations, spy relations, research and development resources and much more. It was a complete shame it was not updated. I have HW2 and is an excellent game, but nothing compared to IG2, really. Those guys were geniuses.

Stellar Warfare is the kind of project that deserves so much attention. i joined their discord and almost immediately the developer asked me what I thought, how I learned about it, and what could be changed to make it better. Games like this, with a single developer riding the reins. They have to be supported and respected. Also. You are right, no game can compare to Homeworld. Even Deserts of Kharak maintains the same design and love for the series. They need to remake Cataclysm. I don't care that Blizzard copyrighted that name. It needs a remaster.

With some of those mentions, maybe X4:Foundations & definitely House of the Dying Sun should have been mentioned. The latter is almost Homeworld with a cockpit perspective fighter flight sim element. The former lets you buy or build you own fleets that you can give orders to and command.

Nexus, The Jupiter Incident & the Haegemonia games really need a remake or sequels.

1154 "and spacefaring junkayards called Orkships!" yeap that pretty much sums up anything Orkish in Warhammer 40K and it still makes me laugh hearing it everytime XD

To be honest one of the most "Homeworldlike" would be "Project Earth: Starmageddon" - I really enjoyed it as a kid, but you won't get it on Steam or GOG, at this moment it's pretty much an abandonwere...

im literally playing nexus: The jupiter incident again right now lol

hey, good stuff thanks.. It would even help to divide the video time slider according to a title and its name, so that it would be easy to write down/access the titles.

sorry about my last comment. Im looking forward for your next video !

Thanks . A bit necromancy - but i found new games to play :)

Wish they would make a Star Trek armada 3 with homeworld like gameplay (with some base building).

Haegemonia is actually Imperium Galactica 3 but Digital Reality had to change its name because they lost the licence to use the original name.

I'm surprised Haegemonia - Legions of Iron is even mentioned. I used to play it constantly as a kid. Its ambient and battle soundtracks are phenomenal!

Perafilozof! You need to check out a game called nebulous fleet command, it would have fit this video very well. It focuses more on the combat part and not so much the economy part. But it plays similar to this but with more realism

O.R.B - was such an underrated game. Played it years back, and really happy I did. I remember loving the sh1t out of the ambient music too.

I'm curious if you have every played Sid Meyer's Starships? For me, it had some great-looking features and some nice gameplay but it felt like a long tutorial than an actual Campaign.

Dammit man I played Jupiter Incident way back and now you have reminded me how good it was!, and I am going to have to dust it off now! One question, like other games, of that era does it need a degree in computer programming to get it working on win 10 (or 11)?

might be a bit unrelated, but I do recommend playing Highfleet

Assembly underway. Assembly underway. Assembly underway.

kudos for mentioning nexus

I would imagine that star wars Empire at war would be a part of this list.

AAAAAA Stellar warfare. I knew I was forgetting something

have you played nebulous: fleet command as well? seemed like it could fit here

buen video great choices

To touch on Hegemony and Imperium Galactica without mentioning it's great spiritual predecessor: Merits Galactic Reunion. Shame, such a shame. But bonus point for Nexus: The Jupiter Incident and by association the Imperium Galactica III tech demo.

Omg, I loved Nexus: The Jupiter Incident... so sad it never really caught on... iirc, a while back they did a kickstarter for a sequel? Not sure what happened to it in the end...

the dev of Ephemeris should post again on his blog.. nothing since December 2022. Got good hopes for that one!

Falling Frontier - will never come out. I wish listed it in 2022 when it said it was coming out. It keeps getting pushed back and is now listed at 2025.

i have played nexus so many times over the years but i have never been able to finish the last level

Problem with nexus jupiter incident is i like the start of the game...and the moment it goes "future scifi" im not longer invested.

Didn't we talk about this just few weeks ago? :d

a new IG3 would be great. Nexus should become Imperium Galactica 3, unfortunately the developer went bankrupt. it's time for a strategy game with big battleships like Imperium Galactica. Like total war in the Galaxy

Imperium Galactica 2, definitely. You mentioned it but not sure why/where you're drawing a distinction since most of the games you're listing don't have a mothership or space mining anyways.

Funny, how match fine tuned polish means to a game, lot of game have amazing concept, idea, and even gameplay, but an unpolished release sometimes dooms it!

Isn't Heagemonia not the successor of Imperium Galactica 1 and 2?

Have you heard of Void Destroyer 1 & 2? Did they not make the cut?

Haegemonia combact was a let down in SPECTACLE??!! I think you would be hard pressed to find NOWADAYS a game with combats as cinematic as those! Gameplay-wise, on the other hand... usually it ended up in two costant streams of missile battleships clashing in the middle

And soon ageofcores!

Which game was it that had a Battle Royale mode?

Is there a game that actually plays & feels like Homeworld? I mean all these game play very different as far as I know.

2d gamestyle is not a downside. in homeworld 2 it is really difficult to use the 3rd dimension without having something to click on, for example resourse asteroids. so i think 3d rts is not really worth it yet because it requires a solution not invented yet. there is a game should be mentioned everywhere, and thats FIVE NATIONS. that is the best space RTS i have ever seen, unfortunately one guy makes it in his free time and no one appreciate it...

What about Star Wolves 1-3?

void destroyer

What about *Nexus: Jupiter Incident* ?

how about Capital Command ?

Nexus is an okay game but it feels a bit like two games stapled together.

Hello, im at fraking start of the video and hear that shit (1:58-2:30 ) and in instant i know that u probably never hear about X4 Foundations

2D space combat in a space game should be criminal action.

what a waste of my time.