has spent many years in development but at long last, the third game in the 3D RTS series is now available. As with all such games in this genre, pitching dozens of spacecraft against each other—with missiles and laser beams everywhere—can get pretty demanding on your PC hardware, especially on your CPU. So it makes a pleasant change to a new game that runs quite happily on low-spec components, even ones that are six years old.
The built-in benchmark figures are better still, though the single-player maps typically perform somewhere in between the results achieved in the multiplayer tests and the benchmark runs.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors
"In terms of the way Homeworld 3 interacts with players' CPUs, we’ve found during development that core count doesn’t matter nearly as much as core speed. Six cores are the expected minimum, as the game routinely uses four fully. Essentially, more cores won’t necessarily translate to better performance."It first launched in 2014 and the last update to it was in August 2021, so Blackbird Interactive had a consistent platform with which to fine-tune its game over the past few years.