Cataclysm utilizes a equivalent stake engine when a original Homeworld, & is fundamentally an additional back's worth of the equivalent sort of content - strategic three-dimensional space combat - sustaining a select few tune-ups to the original, somewhat clumsy interface. A story occurs as newly of these, focusing on the struggles of the antecedently unimportant mineworker of Kiith Somtaaw, the minor kinship group amongst a Kushan, when it unknowingly release a fatal menace called The Beast on the galaxy and seek to contain it.

A game is little inside shell than its predecessor & streamlines a choice of ship types by reducing a total of different ships when enhancing a versatility of the odd ones.

Unluckily, a game was like ill-received & is considered somewhat imbalanced inside multiplayer battles.

Although a cases of the game keep around non been officially dismissed when non-canonical, it is non mentioned in the avowedly sequel, Homeworld Two.