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GUARDS!

WYLDERZONE · 2024-03-01

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: TBD (PlayStation 5), TBD (Xbox Series X|S), Mar 01, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

GUARDS! is an online co-op fantasy FPS that puts you in the underfunded and over-zealous steel boots of the City Watch. Kick down doors, bust criminals and cause excessive property damage as you fight to restore law and order to the corrupt city of New Alestead.

GUARDS! is an Action, Adventure, Indie game released in 2024, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and Mixed (69% of 498 reviews).

0
playing now
69%
positive of 498 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 84% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (190 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 27,701 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 10.0k–22k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 498 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2025-04-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 18 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12812820242026Week of 2024-03-01: 128 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 7 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$3.742024-03-012026-07-292024-03-01 — best price $11.992024-04-15 — best price $11.992024-06-27 — best price $11.992024-08-12 — best price $9.742024-11-27 — best price $7.492024-12-05 — best price $7.492024-12-20 — best price $7.492025-01-13 — best price $9.742025-02-24 — best price $10.492025-03-13 — best price $7.492025-04-27 — best price $3.742025-06-09 — best price $7.492025-06-27 — best price $7.492025-07-25 — best price $7.492025-09-12 — best price $3.742025-09-29 — best price $5.242025-10-26 — best price $7.492025-12-10 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-01-20 — best price $9.992026-03-13 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-04-27 — best price $9.992026-06-15 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-07-29 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

34
achievements tracked
90.7%
earned "Mega Slums Patroller"
3.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-03-01 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4392%34

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

PvECo-opActionCombatFantasyMedievalDifficultExplorationFirst-PersonOnline Co-Op

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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