How do players who really played Homeworld 3 rate it? TrueGG Rating 41.4%

Release date: May 13, 2024 Data as of 2026-10-17 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it about the same as Steam overall. Ratings tend to be steady from the first hours. Recent reviews are recovering.

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗

41.4%

± 0.7 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 5+ hours (all time) · 6,586 reviews

TrueGG, all time: 41.4%
Steam overall: 40.7%
Japanese, all time: —

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 9.1% of all reviews. Their positive share is 27.1%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (5h+)JapaneseRight: reviews

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (all time). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

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Playtime	Positive	Japanese	Reviews
0–1 h	22.3%	100.0%	403
1–2 h	31.9%	0.0%	398
2–5 h	45.1%	0.0%	1,443
5–10 h	37.9%	0.0%	2,647
10–20 h	42.1%	100.0%	2,738
20–50 h	46.6%	50.0%	1,029
50–100 h	47.7%	—	128
100–200 h	66.7%	—	27
200+ h	70.6%	—	17

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 5+ hours. 14% had 20+ hours and 0% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

Homeworld 3 has a TrueGG Rating of 41.4%, based on all-time reviews from players with 5+ hours (6,586 reviews) because recent reviews are few. Steam's overall rating is 40.7%.

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 9% of the total, with 27% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.

Beyond the first hours, approval is fairly even across playtime.

Negative reviews most often mention updates and the developers (less than at launch) and boredom. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels, graphics and music, and price.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (39.8% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-17.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on the game's design (Boring / repetitive). These rarely change with updates, so the rating likely reflects the game itself. Judge by whether it suits you.

− Most mentioned complaints

Updates & developers13% of negative reviews (9% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · less than at launch
Boring / repetitive12% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · ongoing since launch

+ What players praise

Fun & feel40% of positive reviews (13% of negative)
Graphics & music33% of positive reviews (14% of negative)
Price10% of positive reviews (6% of negative)
Difficulty8% of positive reviews (5% of negative)

＋ definitely＋ enjoyed＋ bundle＋ addition＋ perfect＋ solid＋ bit＋ hate− waste− gone− garbage− literally− disappointment− money− half− mess

Counted from 307 recent negative and 305 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

Metric	Positive	Scope
Official Steam rating	40.7%	All time, all languages · 8,782 reviews
Adjusted rating	39.8%	Weighted by trust (95% range 39.1%–40.6%), −0.9pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews	41.7%	All time, Japanese-language reviews (+1.0pt vs overall) · 12 reviews · Few reviews; indicative only

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Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

Condition	Positive reviews	Negative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review	6%	11%
Very short text	11%	9%
Key activated outside Steam	56%	50%
Received for free	1%	1%
Owns very few games	10%	5%
Over 100 reviews written	8%	8%
Average trust (1.0 = full)	0.79	0.82

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 11.3 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-17

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative

Positive share per month

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

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Month	Positive	Negative	Positive
2024-05	1,626	2,165	42.9%
2024-06	165	299	35.6%
2024-07	44	117	27.3%
2024-08	43	101	29.9%
2024-09	25	40	38.5%
2024-10	33	34	49.3%
2024-11	51	91	35.9%
2024-12	58	54	51.8%
2025-01	42	36	53.8%
2025-02	22	27	44.9%
2025-03	17	21	44.7%
2025-04	17	19	47.2%
2025-05	10	21	32.3%
2025-06	12	17	41.4%
2025-07	10	26	27.8%
2025-08	6	19	24.0%
2025-09	12	15	44.4%
2025-10	8	15	34.8%
2025-11	10	11	47.6%
2025-12	15	6	71.4%
2026-01	13	6	68.4%
2026-02	6	9	40.0%
2026-03	7	13	35.0%
2026-04	10	7	58.8%
2026-05	10	10	50.0%
2026-06	9	10	47.4%
2026-07	24	21	53.3%
2026-08	12	6	66.7%
2026-09	8	10	44.4%
2026-10	2	11	15.4%

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Day	Positive	Negative
2026-09-17	0	0
2026-09-18	0	2
2026-09-19	0	0
2026-09-20	0	0
2026-09-21	0	0
2026-09-22	0	1
2026-09-23	0	0
2026-09-24	0	1
2026-09-25	1	0
2026-09-26	1	0
2026-09-27	0	0
2026-09-28	0	2
2026-09-29	0	0
2026-09-30	0	1
2026-10-01	0	0
2026-10-02	0	0
2026-10-03	0	0
2026-10-04	0	2
2026-10-05	1	2
2026-10-06	0	0
2026-10-07	0	0
2026-10-08	0	1
2026-10-09	0	2
2026-10-10	0	0
2026-10-11	0	0
2026-10-12	0	0
2026-10-13	0	2
2026-10-14	0	2
2026-10-15	0	0
2026-10-16	1	0