Posted on: May 13, 2025
DoomFruit
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Fun, but with some annoyances
First up: Linux compatibility. It's not officially supported, but it works perfectly under Linux when using Wine. Always good. Performance: my system is a Ryzen 5600 and a Radeon 6500XT. The game runs pretty well at 1920x1080 with all the options set to max (except annoyances like depth of field and motion blur, those are disabled for the sake of my sanity). It chugs a bit during some in-game cutscenes, but oddly enough runs perfectly during gameplay. Is it fun? Yes. It really is Homeworld in 2D - there's no fixed base and your "mothership" produces all your units. The difficulty level is about right - not a cakewalk, but not a punishing nightmare either. Combat feels satisfying and punchy, the music is pretty good and the plot kept me engaged. But it's not perfect. I'll say it up front - I've been spoiled by Supreme Commander. That, to me, is the absolute pinnacle of RTS gameplay. You can zoom in and out in Deserts of Kharak, but only so far. You can zoom out further to get a bigger overview of the map, but that's a separate mode which you need to toggle. SC let you go smoothly from being right up in the face of your smallest unit to seeing the entire battlefield. Not being able to smoothly zoom in and out is a bigger annoyance than it seems. Many other RTS games have a minimap, but not DoK. It wasn't present in Homeworld because the 3D nature and very large scale precluded it, but that's not an issue here and it would have been very useful. And there's no way to pause the game while still being able to look around, let alone issue orders when paused. It's also a very short game, even more so when you don't know what the level triggers are (which might end a mission earlier than you want). But all that said, I don't regret my purchase. I enjoyed playing it and I'd recommend it to any fan of the RTS genre.
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