Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
Before you can find your Homeworld, you must first unlock the secrets of the desert. Blackbird Interactive and Gearbox Software invite you to visit the deserts of Kharak in this new Homeworld story, where…
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Blackbird Interactive, released 20 January 2016 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Blackbird Interactive and released in 2016. It was published by Gearbox Software. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is a real-time strategy video game developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Gearbox Software. The game was released on January 20, 2016, and is a prequel to the 1999 space-based real-time strategy video game Homeworld.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 48 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-2100 (3.1 GHz) / AMD A10 5800k (3.8 GHz), 3 GB RAM and GeForce GT 440 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 4890 (1024 MB). At 3GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak launched on 20 January 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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