Homeworld 3
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Simulation-focused space strategy entry from Blackbird Interactive, with Gearbox Publishing as publisher. In 2024, Homeworld 3 launched at $59.99 and has 8,610 Steam reviews with 41% positive, a mixed reception signal.
Overview
Homeworld 3 is a 2024 Simulation game developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Gearbox Publishing. On Steam it has gathered 8,615 player reviews, 41% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Simulation category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $60. The pairing of developer Blackbird Interactive with publisher Gearbox Publishing is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Simulation projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 284,000 to 663,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Homeworld 3 can be compared against similar Simulation titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,615
Positive
41%
Steam appid
1840080
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0284K to 663K
units (median: 474K)
≈ $9.7M to $22.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$60 | +15 |
| positive_41% | -10 |
| final NB | 55 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Homeworld 3 at roughly 284,000 to 663,000 copies, with a median around 474,000, derived from its 8,615 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $16.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $32.77Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $32.77 to $59.99, averaging $56.00 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $32.77 on 2026-04-19.
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Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Homeworld 3 sold?
- indielist estimates Homeworld 3 has sold between 284,295 and 663,355 units (median 473,825), derived from its 8,615 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Homeworld 3?
- Homeworld 3 was developed by Blackbird Interactive and published by Gearbox Publishing.
- When was Homeworld 3 released?
- Homeworld 3 was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Homeworld 3 have on Steam?
- Homeworld 3 has 8,615 Steam reviews, of which 41% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Homeworld 3 within the Simulation segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Blackbird Interactive's other releases and Gearbox Publishing's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Homeworld 3 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Homeworld 3 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Simulation game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.