While all of this exposure on the flexibility of space in video games is great, the realtime strategy genre has yet to see any true releases in this new-found boom of space-based games. Space is no longer the final frontier as developers are constantly coming up with new ways to bring fantastic adventures to the fans of the genre as evidenced in No Man’s Sky. Relic truly got something right with Homeworld really set the bar high for space-based realtime strategy games in gameplay, graphics, storytelling and balance, you will not find another title quite like Homeworld.Įnter 2014 and the space-based gaming genre has seen an explosion of games from massive productions like Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous to less-known titles like Distant Worlds: Universe, X: Rebirth, and the Strike Suit titles. Some ten years later there has yet to be a space-based RTS game like Homeworld and Homeworld 2, though Sins of a Solar Empire comes very close (though it is more of a 4X-RTS hybrid, which is excellent and totally okay) it was not quite the level of Homeworld. I was immediately hooked and eagerly awaited the sequel which came in 2003 and after playing it heavily for nearly a year, the title disappeared in the shadow of 2004’s World of Warcraft (as so many great titles did).
Pirates and other evil-doers would jump in-system and start skirmishing with my patrol ships which would then escalate into an all out war between two massive fleets. My mothership, tucked away in some dusty nebula could send out ships to salvage from asteroids while roving bands of bombers, fighters, frigates and corvettes would protect my resource gathers operations. A space-based realtime strategy game that allowed me to control a fleet of wicked looking space craft through the truly 3-dimensional “space” of deep space.
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