The survivors journey with their spacecraft-constructing mothership to reclaim their ancient homeworld, encountering a variety of pirates, mercenaries, traders, and rebels and forging unlikely alliances along the way.
[3] Homeworld was considered an influential title, as it was the first RTS video game that allow players to move units in a fully three-dimensional space rather than being limited to a two-dimensional plane.
[4][5] A standalone expansion for the game, Homeworld: Cataclysm, developed by Barking Dog Studios, was released in 2000.
The story follows a small mining clan named Kiith Somtaaw, which encounters a race of hostile nanobots that threaten the peace of the galaxy.
Due to the desert setting, the gameplay focuses on vehicular combat, terrain control and ground battles instead.
[11] Rob Cunningham, one of the co-founders of Relic, founded Blackbird Interactive in 2007 and began working on a real-time strategy game named Hardware: Shipbreakers.
[13] Gearbox also partnered with developer Stratosphere Games and released Homeworld Mobile for iOS and Android in October 2022.
The studio partnered with Gearbox and Blackbird, and employed Martin Cirulis, one of the writers for the first Homeworld game, for the project.
[19] A board game titled Homeworld Fleet Command, also developed by Modiphius Entertainment, was announced in August 2022.