Homeworld Mobile 9+

New To Homeworld Entirely! HWM is still alive and worth it.

I started to get into the whole Homeworld franchise roughly 3 months ago. After watching the original HW game then HW2 and later HW Deserts of kharak, I started to love the game by which it takes place and the story behind the Hiigarans. I was later introduced to Homeworld mobile which got me even more excited as I learned this game takes place 15 years after the events of HW2. Being a mobile game I have found it most entertaining and although there’s been minor issues from log in crashes, minor crashes while playing or moments of non clarification within the game, I’ve still enjoyed the game immensely. Yes in the beginning you are thrown in the game with little to no explanation of the basic mechanics and later have to figure out what is what. But for me as a player within games, I enjoy learning as I go and I like to get creative with how I play within a game. Being a sci-fi lover and geek, the creative approach of building your own fleet and having to manage your stuff, staff and over all upgrades appeals to me. To me, I get to role play how I want and imagine how I would lead my fleet within Homeworld lore. So before you judge this game because of its technical issues, really give it a chance and you’ll see, this game is wonderful and beautiful at its core!

Fun! But ….

I’ve enjoyed the game play so far. The environment looks great and the ships are cool. I looked forward to later game mechanics and getting into bigger ships and changing their components. Sadly, the game has some serious bugs. The game often crashes and requires a restart. The chat function doesn’t work most of the time, and you need it to work to complete certain tasks. I can progress no further in the game as I am stuck with two research missions in chapter 17. They refuse to complete no matter how many research I complete. I’ve heard you have to use fleet A and not change fleets during the research, but this hasn’t worked for me. No matter what fleet or ship I use it doesn’t work. I want to see this game succeed and would love to continue progressing in the game, but currently I’m at a roadblock. Perhaps if they fix some of these issues I can give it another try. For now the game is unplayable.

Update: The recent version update seems to have fixed a number of the original issues I was having. I’m progressing along now and enjoying the game very much. Thank you for the response from the developers. I’m excited to see where the game goes from here.

Developer Response ,

Thank you that you took the time to give your feedback. We are constantly working on updating Homeworld Mobile. The described chat lock is our number 1 priority right now and is being heavily investigated by our team. We are sorry that your quest is not progressing. Right now the "Reverse Engineering" and "Rebuilding Efforts" quests are only progressing when you start a new research project and not after you leveled up research you have already researched before. We encourage you to contact us on Discord so that we will be able to manually help you, as we hope that you will be able to continue having fun with our game.

Great and excited to keep playing… but bugs

I wish I could give this 5 stars, but it keeps crashing. I love homeworld stuff, and I love that the ships and voice lines are similar to the pc games, but it keeps crashing and I currently can’t play

Update: Thanks so much for the devs responding to my review and for continuing to work on the game. A lot of the bugs are getting addressed and chat now works which is great. I still experience crashes often, but they are less frequent. Some things I think are vital to fix are unit responses. Resource controllers seem to work well. But the targeting of other units is very odd. I often can’t focus fire on a target like I’m wanting to as my ships quickly overwrite that command and started attacking whatever seems to be closest. Also while in a fight moving your ship can be buggy as it seems to overwrite the move command and again just attack a random target nearby. But I can tell y’all are working on the game so I raised the review to 4 stars. This mobile game is getting me more excited for the next console homeworld release!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your review and for supporting our game. We have released a new update on Tuesday that addressed some of the crash issues that you are experiencing. We are additionally investigating further crashes right now. If you want to help us, it would be great if you could join our Discord server so we can get more information about the crashes that you are experiencing. We are working hard on a fix and hope that you will be able to enjoy Homeworld Mobile afterwards.