Homeworld Mobile has been announced in a curious new teaser trailer.
We don’t know a whole lot about what this new mobile game will offer. We do know that Homeworld is the original 3D space-based RTS from Relic Entertainment, a 1999 classic that went on to define the genre and spawn a sequel. The only reason the franchise didn’t keep up its momentum was due to a series of financial missteps that eventually saw the IP fall into legal purgatory before it was finally picked up by Gearbox in 2013.
After that, Gearbox partnered with developer Blackbird Interactive to create Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, a prequel that took place on-planet and thus wasn’t quite the same sort of space-based strategy that fans of the series were after.
But PAX West last week we found out that there will be two new Homeworld games coming. The first is Homeworld 3, the proper sequel that fans have waited almost two decades to get their hands on. They’ll have to wait a bit longer as the game is still in its infancy and is in fact still getting crowd-funded over on Fig.
The other is Homeworld Mobile, which got its own 30-second teaser video courtesy of Gearbox.
Pretty much everything we know about Homeworld Mobile comes from the teaser trailer. We know that Stratosphere Games will be the driving force of Homeworld Mobile and that the footage shown is actual gameplay. That’s about it.
The footage looks suspiciously like the original Homeworld gameplay, so we’re assuming at this point that Homeworld Mobile is a port of the original game, or otherwise modifies some of the original game’s assets to work on a mobile device.
Which honestly sounds great. The original 1999 title still holds up even today thanks to a gritty and riveting plot along with an iconic soundtrack. Mobile devices should be easily able to handle a game from before the millennium when computers were just running on as little as 32MB of RAM (that’s megabyte with an M, in case you’ve never even seen a number that small).
There’s no release date, price, or even what operating systems Homeworld Mobile will run on. You can sign up for updates on the official website, but don’t expect to hear anything for a little while at least.
