Homefront®: The Revolution
Homefront®: The Revolution
Game
Game2011
Homefront
Developer Kaos Studios, Digital Extremes
Homefront is a first-person shooter video game developed by Kaos Studios and published by THQ. The game centers around a resistance movement in the near-future fighting against a Korean occupation of the Western United States following a fictionalized WPK-lead reunification of Korea. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in March 2011. Homefront received mixed reviews. The single-player… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
322 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
65
Fresh
142 positive · 75 negative
95% range 59–71%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 142 | 75 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 14 | 14 | 72 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
3,540 of 6,125 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
64% recommend · 132 yes, 74 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 206 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (8,319 of 13,479 positive).
Players praise the game's engaging atmosphere and emotional setting of an occupied America. [1][2][3] The campaign is short but intense, with a decent story and solid pacing. [4][5][6] Some reviewers criticize the dated graphics, repetitive gameplay, and lack of replay value. [7][8][9]
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- [8]
Homefront is a very short (under 5 hours), fairly generic military FPS, with little replay value and dated gameplay mechanics and enemies. The multiplayer is dead, and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ part is that it's still advertised on the game page, and there's even 10 EUR worth of DLC still being sold, which is laughable. The only thing somewhat memorable about the game was the premise: the US getting invaded by a foreign force, …
- [9]
Homefront felt less like a finished game and more like a technical framework. While the premise of a North Korean invasion of the U.S. was bold for its time and rich in atmosphere, the actual gameplay was held back by repetitive scripting and an extremely short campaign. Gameplay & AI The AI follows very basic patterns: enemies simply hunker down behind cover and occasionally peek their heads out. Because of this, …
- [1]
I’d heard about Homefront for ages, and its world was always super intriguing, but I never got around to playing it… until recently. Seeing Modern Warfare 4 announce a North Korea-themed plot suddenly reminded me of this ancient classic, and I thought, “Yeah, I need to finally check this out.” Even though it came out in 2011, the story is set in 2027, with North Korea fully invading the US. Looking back now, it …
- [2]
this game is a surprisingly enjoyable military shooter that delivers an intense campaign from beginning to end. while it may not reinvent the genre, homefront stands out thanks to its engaging atmosphere, emotional setting and the constant feeling that you're fighting against overwhelming odds. from the very first mission, the game throws you into a brutal conflict where every street, neighborhood and ruined city …
- [3]
Homefront is a military first-person shooter built around an unsettling alternate-history premise: the United States has been occupied by a unified Korean military force, leaving ordinary Americans and surviving soldiers to organize a resistance movement. You play as Robert Jacobs, a former Marine Corps helicopter pilot living in occupied Colorado. After being forced from his home, Jacobs is rescued by members of …
Summarised from 34 of the 287 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
64% of the 206 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Homefront. The complaint that keeps coming up: dated graphics and technical issues. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Homefront was met with mixed reviews across all platforms. Some critics praised the atmosphere and story, while others panned those same aspects, along with the short length of the single-player campaign. However, the multiplayer aspect of Homefront was generally well received. Review aggregator GameRankings generated a score of 71.70% for the Xbox 360 version, 69.33% for the PlayStation 3 version and 68.89% for the Microsoft Windows version. Review aggregator Metacritic generated a score of 70 out of 100 across all platforms. Play praised Kaos studios for the different campaign mode and multiplayer, but criticized most other things. IGN praised the setting and presentation, while…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
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neutral · AI labelView post →Games Like Homefront. Hi Friends, I've been replaying Homefront lately. Its a great game, but has a very short storyline. https://store.steampowered.com/app/55100/Homefront/ What I like most: - intense firefights, giant explosions - good storyline - genuinely horrifying atmosphere with mass graves, rubble everywhere, a horrifying police state with North Koreans occupying the US. It's not hard to feel like a resistance fighter protecting your homeland - linear gameplay with a balance of…
positive · AI labelView post →My take on 'game most deserving a reassessment' is going to be controversial: Homefront: The Revolution. A game that recently DID get people coming back to it, only to dunk on it EVEN HARDER as 'Lol the game you can delete to unlock a Timesplitters 2 port'. But it's legit a polished urban Far Cry.
positive · AI labelView post →It reached a peak with the 2008 video game Homefront, that had North Korea somehow invading Western America and somehow winning.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’d heard about Homefront for ages, and its world was always super intriguing, but I never got around to playing it… until recently. Seeing Modern Warfare 4 announce a North Korea-themed plot suddenly reminded me of this ancient classic, and I thought, “Yeah, I need to finally check this out.” Even though it came out in 2011, the story is set in 2027, with North Korea fully invading the US. Looking back now, it gives a weird kind of time-travel vibe. Most FPS games loves to let you play as a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do think it's very funny that they decided they had to reboot HOMEFRONT — that one video game where fucking North Korea invades the United States — but they could only maintain suspension of disbelief by turning things upside down and making them fascists instead of communists
neutral · AI labelView post →Tricked into a Homefront 2 attempt and there's so many good concepts in a terrible game. You have to hide constantly in cities, you build IEDs from old electronics, it could have been such a good guerilla sim
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember folks, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 is a Microsoft product and therefore a BDS movement target. Also speculating from the teaser trailer, Homefront: The Revolution already came out in 2016 and is basically the same game
neutral · AI labelView post →Hi! I'm Matt, a games programmer from Manchester. I specialise in game engine architecture, graphics, and optimisation. I've worked on 26 games including Red Dead Redemption (Switch/PS4/PC), Rust (consoles), many LEGO titles, Homefront: The Revolution, TimeSplitters 2 Arcade, Tanglewood (Mega Drive)
neutral · AI labelView post →First playthrough review time. Homefront has an interesting story and gives that classic military shooter atmosphere from older FPS games. The campaign is short, but the pacing stays good and the later missions become better than the early parts. The shooting sections are simple and keep the game active from start to finish. The gameplay is decent overall, though the controls may take a little time to get used to, especially for players more familiar with modern FPS movement. The game also…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Homefront is an FPS released in 2011, developed by Kaos Studios. It’s basically a Call of Duty-like with a North Korean twist. Since the 2010s, North Korea has been arming itself to the teeth and gradually invading the world. Two years after the start of the occupation of the United States by this dictatorial regime, the dictatorship is total. Extreme violence reigns, with summary executions in the middle of the street, populations rounded up in makeshift camps or sent to forced labor, and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is a surprisingly enjoyable military shooter that delivers an intense campaign from beginning to end. while it may not reinvent the genre, homefront stands out thanks to its engaging atmosphere, emotional setting and the constant feeling that you're fighting against overwhelming odds. from the very first mission, the game throws you into a brutal conflict where every street, neighborhood and ruined city tells the story of a nation struggling to survive under occupation. it creates a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another 360 game for this week's #RandomGameSaturday I liked Homefront but it got a bad reputation, mainly because it talked big and under-delivered on those boasts
neutral · AI labelView post →I created a new playlist on my #gamedev YouTube channel "Examples from games". The first video is Object Interaction Mechanics and User Interface from Moons of Madness Homefront: The Revolution KONA The Forest Deliver Us the Moon SOMA Fallout 76 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDTA...
neutral · AI labelView post →there’s always such a strange feeling browsing game sales and eventually running into HOMEFRONT: THE REVOLUTION for 1.99 and even tho it costs less than a soda, im like “no thank you”
negative · AI labelView post →In 2011, THQ event organizers released over 11,000 red balloons across downtown San Francisco to promote the FPS game Homefront. The intent was to reference the use of balloons to communicate hope to North Korean citizens, but many of the balloons landed in the SF waterfront, creating massive waste.
neutral · AI labelView post →Homefront 1 really is a time capsule of a game in that it is the natural conclusion of American's fetishization of violence towards them and lust for a "justifiable war" with an easy to hate enemy combined with a bit of commie scare that was planted in videogames with modern warfare.
neutral · AI labelView post →Name Your Top 15 Shows: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Lost The X-Files This Is Us American Idol Homefront Thirtysomething Downton Abbey So You Think You Can Dance Gilmore Girls Game of Thrones Interview With the Vampire The Walking Dead Fringe
neutral · AI labelView post →Terminator Resistance strikes me as very similar to Homefront, played it a while after finishing the Homefront series and there were lots of similarities.
neutral · AI labelView post →From the franchise that brought you Copaganda: The Video Game.... And the publisher that brought Medal Honor: Rising Sun to TGS... Comes Homefront 2: European Boogaloo
neutral · AI labelView post →For a time this game became sort of wanted because it was revealed that the entirety of TimeSplitters 2 could be played within it in 4K... and then TimeSplitters 2 got re-released on both Xbox One/Series & PS4/5, which instantly made Homefront: The Revolution worthless once again.
neutral · AI labelView post →I honestly had a really good time with Homefront. I know the game got a lot of criticism when it came out, and I can definitely see where some of it comes from, but I still think there’s a good game here. I really enjoyed the setting and the whole idea of fighting through an occupied America. The gameplay feels a bit dated now, and there are definitely some rough edges, but it never stopped me from having fun. It’s far from perfect, but I genuinely think Homefront is a solid and underrated game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The chronological play order on the lead up to Modern Warfare 4 is: - download Homefront: The Revolution - get the mod that deletes the whole game except for the TimeSplitters 2 part - play TimeSplitters 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Everything they describe in the first few minutes of gameplay is a lighter version of what Israel has been doing to Palestinians for decades. I dunno, it's a very bland game for me, doesn't hold a candle to games much older than this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UNITED STATES KOREA Good FPS but plot is just bonkers! On the contrary - plenty of weapons, shooting is decent, levels are challenging and mostly well designed. Most of time jump between backyards, moving across abandoned streets while fighting KPA patrols as resistance force. Getting from cover to cover while moving on foot, no vehicles only two short rail shooter parts. Weapons are powerful so everyone takes major damage from any kind of gun. Enemies consist mostly of troops, sentry guns,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is really stupid considering how dumb the game was, but Homefront. There was this scene where you are on a bus and you are taken through the invaded city, and there is this little kid on his knees on a curb crying without his parents. I had just had my first kid and this scared me to death.
negative · AI labelView post →A bit of a deep cut is our 'Homefront' playthrough, which I've heard described as "a delicious one-and-done of a game with a disgusting plot." Honestly, we should probably re-do this one with a proper history section, since there's so much more to get into on it haha. youtu.be/DN0wHOMzkDw
neutral · AI labelView post →There was that one game (Homefront I think?) that originally had China occupying the western US until China got mad, then awkwardly fixed it in post so it was North Korea that had managed to do it
neutral · AI labelView post →For most of the review: https://backloggd.com/u/gamemast15r/review/5239382/ To start, I'll recommend VERY cautiously and here's why. It very much feels emotionally detached, like it’s a knock-off Call of Duty 4 that tries to hit its highs in terms of excitement but doesn’t end up doing so for the most part. That being said hypocritically enough, I feel like the game’s best aspects come out in the form of the actual background lore and the evocative imagery, to which I’m also going to fit the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RE: last tweet Working on Homefront: The Revolution, a game horribly reviewed, and everyone at that studio was putting their best effort into making that game as good as could be. They did excellent work! And so are many other people working on AAA games, let's not disparage their work.
neutral · AI labelView post →this game is Red Dawn the video game except it focuses on adult organized resistance. Its a bit older by now (It came out during PS3 era) and some of it is outdated but man is it a good time. Its short but packed. There is a point near the middle where it shifts to near constant action set pieces. It does feel a bit rushed sometimes. There are some serious emotional beats that you experience for 20 seconds and then move on, never to be mentioned for the rest of the game. It was a good way to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dead for ages I can barely remember it was alive 15 years ago but selling it now is a crime
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short but cool game, its always nice to kill some communists. 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite my specs being more than good enough, the game runs like bad chocolate pudding.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing a first person shooter that's over 15 years old is not recommended, especially one that would've been average at best upon it's release. Boring, tired, linear, meh!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really hate when narrative fps games hold you back physically. Like, I just want to shoot things. Anyway, John Milius (Conan the Barbarian, Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn) should be ashamed to have his name attached to this thing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Holy shit. Trying to play Homefront Revolution but it keeps crashing randomly every ten minutes. No one likes this game.
negative · AI labelView post →You know what was better than whatever tournament game was just on? Homefront (2013) with Jason Statham, James Franco, Kate Bosworth, and the hot redheaded vampire from Twilight
neutral · AI labelView post →Fuck that's what they should have done with that stupid Homefront game, instead of supertech NK invading US, shoulda been fascist US tech hijacking Europe, at least then we coulda gone 'wow how prescient'
neutral · AI labelView post →Short version: get Homefront the revolution, either as a cheap steam key, when it goes on sale or however else you might, you're an adult i trust you. Then install TS2 Redux from here github.com/HFTSRedux/TS... Would any #Vtubers be interested in some good old fragging?
positive · AI labelView post →Mine is weird because it’s not a game, but concept art for a game I haven’t even played (Homefront 2)
neutral · AI labelView post →I just realized I wrote Homeland, when I meant Homefront. One was a weirdly xenophobic tv show; the other was a weirdly and comically xenophobic video game. I regret my error.
negative · AI labelView post →Still better than the MW4 Beta.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Homefront is a very short (under 5 hours), fairly generic military FPS, with little replay value and dated gameplay mechanics and enemies. The multiplayer is dead, and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ part is that it's still advertised on the game page, and there's even 10 EUR worth of DLC still being sold, which is laughable. The only thing somewhat memorable about the game was the premise: the US getting invaded by a foreign force, which was anyway overshadowed by CoD: Ghosts, which has a similar story, just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game 4: Homefront So this was a interesting game, its about the US being invaded by North Korea, the story was interesting along with the gameplay, great ost too. Aside from two crashes, a tedious mission and a very unwelcomed slur, its not that bad of a game 9/10
positive · AI labelView post →The world would be a better place if there were more Wolfenstein-like games but with communist enemies. This would be amazing if it was longer and more gameplay-focused.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →People saying Homefront and The Last Guardian (which is bizarre) clearly never got a copy of Bubsy 3D for Christmas as their only game for the PlayStation
neutral · AI labelView post →The only reason I'd ever go to bat for that game is because I can point to Spec Ops: The Line and say that was what the first Homefront was likely trying to be and failed miserably at it.
neutral · AI labelView post →4 hours of killing Norks (I played on Guerilla difficulty, which is the hardest difficulty you can put on). It's one of those alternative history settings that are so ridiculous that they're pretty enjoyable to experience: North Korea and South Korea peacefully unite into the Greater Korean Republic; they successfully invade some Southeast Asian countries, and they even annex Japan and invade the USA. American resistance is portrayed as underdogs, even though they are able to get mortar rounds…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh hey, it's Homefront: Revolution. Still funny that TS2 is just. Inside the game.
neutral · AI labelView post →linear 4-hour fps where you murder and blow all sorts of ♥♥♥♥ up while collecting random news clippings for 'lore'. priorities. the story is told in 7 chapters, dystopian future when it came out in 2011, now it's alternate history, and the way things are going, maybe soon reality. the scenery is mostly destroyed suburbia, some warehouses, and the golden gate bridge in the finale. not too shabby. my favorite was chapter 5 with all the sneaky sniping in the countryside but it didn't last long,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had fun playing this game. I'm from San Francisco, so it was cool playing a FPS on the Golden Gate Bridge 😆🇺🇸👋. Spoiler alert below: Don't forget to create an "F" Key at the end facing the North Korean Goliath vehicle. That's your anti-missile CM counter measure defense.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The entirety of the US right now largely mimics the opening sequence of the video game Homefront.
neutral · AI labelView post →I knew KAOS made Homefront 2011 what I didn't know They made another FPS game before Homefront. #FrontlinesFuelofWar
neutral · AI labelView post →Runs like absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥ - frustrating! I threw a handful of grapes at my uncle!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It tries too hard to be edgy and different, and ends up being cringe and eye-rollingly boring. Took me 4 hours to finish the game on the hardest difficulty WHILE getting all 61 collectibles, that's how short the game is.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Homefront is actually a critique of the United States. It shows, by reversing the roles, exactly what the U.S. has done to other countries. It depicts how the "rebels" in countries occupied by the U.S. (through Israel's actions and support networks, for example) may resort to suicide attacks and the use of dangerous weapons that can end up harming their own forces. It shows how resistance movements sometimes make wrong decisions that put innocent lives at risk, and how they can become…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Homefront describes and shows a real world example of life under rule of the reform UK party save YO MONEY DIS GAME SODOMISED ME WITH ITS 0 MULTIPLAYER a friday night in the irish centre oh how i wish it was friday every day drink my drink bro show me how a real man drinks an IPA
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There should be a game thats a thematic cross between Spec Ops: the line and Homefront: the revolution, where the US is invaded and you join the resistance, but its all messed up and you get to the end and it was actually fine the whole time, and you’ve just been attacking humanitarian workers
neutral · AI labelView post →Homefront felt less like a finished game and more like a technical framework. While the premise of a North Korean invasion of the U.S. was bold for its time and rich in atmosphere, the actual gameplay was held back by repetitive scripting and an extremely short campaign. Gameplay & AI The AI follows very basic patterns: enemies simply hunker down behind cover and occasionally peek their heads out. Because of this, the combat feels predictable rather than dynamic. Gunplay & Feedback The…
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