Homeworld Remastered Collection

Homeworld Remastered Collection brought back to modern PCs two key installments of the cult space strategy series, Homeworld and Homeworld 2, with reworked graphics, improved ship models, and a modern interface, but with gameplay faithful to the originals from the late nineties and early two-thousands. The collection allowed a new generation of players to discover the story of the Kushan, a wandering people searching for their lost home planet, which was praised at the time as one of the most ambitious sci-fi stories in the strategy genre.

The core gameplay system remained untouched – the player commands fleets in genuinely three-dimensional space, where altitude, angle of attack, and unit formations matter, which was utterly groundbreaking at the time of the original and to this day few strategy games match it for depth of spatial thinking. The remaster added higher-resolution textures, new ship models preserving the original design, reworked explosion and lighting effects, and also an updated multiplayer using modern network infrastructure, allowing the online community around the game to come back to life after years of silence. The audio and music, one of the strongest elements of the original games, were preserved in full glory and still shape the characteristic melancholic atmosphere of traveling through space that players remember to this day.

The game was received very positively as a sensitively executed return of a classic that respects the legacy of the originals while making them accessible on current hardware without the need to hunt down old drivers and compatible systems. Homeworld Remastered Collection is today the standard gateway for new players who want to discover the roots of spatial strategy, and a reminder of how innovative Relic's approach to three-dimensional fleet command was at the end of the nineties, long before similar ideas became common in the genre.

Why play: For new players wanting to discover the roots of spatial strategy, it's the standard, hassle-free gateway to a classic, with no need to hunt down old drivers and compatible systems.