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WARDOGS

BULKHEAD · Team17 · 2026-09-10

Steam

ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 10, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

WARDOGS is a TACTICAL ALL OUT WARFARE FPS where one hundred players split across three teams fight over the control zone. Set in the derelict industrial mountains of Eastern Europe on a destructible battlefield where teamwork pays and cash is king.

WARDOGS is a 2026 Action Indie Massively Multiplayer Simulation game priced at $39.99, with a review sentiment of Mostly Positive (76% of 93355 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-27

95,603
playing now
74%
positive of 116k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
6,118
twitch viewers (latest)
21.2
viewers/channel (concentration)
2
Nexus mods (1.6k downloads)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$39.99
steam price (US)

95,603 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 01:00 UTC (census sample)

Wardogs is an upcoming multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by British video game developer Bulkhead and published by Team17. It was released into close beta on 22 August 2026 for people who pre-ordered it and then released into early access for Microsoft Windows on 10 September 2026. Wardogs is revolved around a "cash is king" style of play, with each player starting out with $10,000. The game takes inspiration from the Arma 3 mod called "King of the Hill". In September 2026, Bulkhead announced that Wardogs is scheduled for release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S in 2028.

Trailer

WARDOGS trailer thumbnail

Wardogs - Official Reveal Trailer

≈262,174 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Thriving
  • · 95,603 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 96,816 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~24,204/week).
  • · Top 1% of 27,751 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-17

Tier history: unknown→thriving (Sep 17), thriving→unknown (Sep 16), unknown→thriving (Sep 12)

Estimated sales: 2.3M–5.2M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 116,336 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $32.70 at AllYouPlay (2026-09-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 1 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
43k43k20262026Week of 2026-09-10: 43,333 positiveWeek of 2026-09-10: 14,255 negativeWeek of 2026-09-17: 12,283 positiveWeek of 2026-09-17: 5,122 negativeWeek of 2026-09-24: 8,555 positiveWeek of 2026-09-24: 4,737 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 5,314 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 3,217 negativeWeek of 2026-10-08: 563 positiveWeek of 2026-10-08: 358 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

378k54k2026-09-15 01:00 — 287,064 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 159,333 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 269,208 players2026-09-18 15:00 — 286,864 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 326,171 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 360,644 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 265,324 players2026-09-22 15:00 — 249,064 players2026-09-23 15:00 — 234,908 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 229,149 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 239,540 players2026-09-26 15:00 — 273,228 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 295,161 players2026-09-28 15:00 — 209,120 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 192,288 players2026-09-30 15:00 — 183,670 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 172,955 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 177,336 players2026-10-03 15:00 — 217,727 players2026-10-04 15:00 — 230,543 players2026-10-05 15:00 — 150,912 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 142,791 players2026-10-07 15:00 — 133,932 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 129,470 players2026-10-09 15:00 — 134,057 players2026-10-10 15:00 — 164,317 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 175,660 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 125,798 players2026-10-13 15:00 — 110,824 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 100,368 players2026-10-15 01:00 — 95,603 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#5#82026-09-152026-10-152026-09-15 — #52026-09-16 — #52026-09-17 — #52026-09-18 — #52026-09-19 — #52026-09-20 — #52026-09-21 — #52026-09-22 — #52026-09-23 — #52026-09-24 — #52026-09-25 — #52026-09-26 — #52026-09-27 — #52026-09-28 — #52026-09-29 — #52026-09-30 — #52026-10-01 — #52026-10-02 — #62026-10-03 — #62026-10-04 — #62026-10-05 — #62026-10-06 — #62026-10-07 — #82026-10-08 — #82026-10-09 — #82026-10-10 — #82026-10-11 — #82026-10-12 — #82026-10-13 — #82026-10-14 — #82026-10-15 — #8
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
2.8k2.8k2026-09-162026-10-142026-09-16: 2,787 new positive2026-09-16: 868 new negative2026-09-17: 2,238 new positive2026-09-17: 790 new negative2026-09-18: 2,066 new positive2026-09-18: 713 new negative2026-09-19: 2,129 new positive2026-09-19: 1,052 new negative2026-09-20: 2,195 new positive2026-09-20: 980 new negative2026-09-21: 2,230 new positive2026-09-21: 911 new negative2026-09-22: 1,736 new positive2026-09-22: 734 new negative2026-09-23: 1,614 new positive2026-09-23: 689 new negative2026-09-24: 1,420 new positive2026-09-24: 733 new negative2026-09-25: 1,493 new positive2026-09-25: 779 new negative2026-09-26: 2,762 new positive2026-09-26: 1,744 new negative2026-09-27: 1,319 new positive2026-09-27: 1,000 new negative2026-09-28: 1,037 new positive2026-09-28: 662 new negative2026-09-29: 968 new positive2026-09-29: 664 new negative2026-09-30: 1,359 new positive2026-09-30: 642 new negative2026-10-01: 1,100 new positive2026-10-01: 504 new negative2026-10-02: 1,059 new positive2026-10-02: 529 new negative2026-10-03: 1,150 new positive2026-10-03: 718 new negative2026-10-04: 837 new positive2026-10-04: 608 new negative2026-10-05: 796 new positive2026-10-05: 589 new negative2026-10-06: 608 new positive2026-10-06: 433 new negative2026-10-07: 593 new positive2026-10-07: 378 new negative2026-10-08: 507 new positive2026-10-08: 338 new negative2026-10-09: 1,148 new positive2026-10-09: 686 new negative2026-10-10: 1,006 new positive2026-10-10: 345 new negative2026-10-11: 734 new positive2026-10-11: 352 new negative2026-10-12: 703 new positive2026-10-12: 272 new negative2026-10-13: 681 new positive2026-10-13: 219 new negative2026-10-14: 587 new positive2026-10-14: 169 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$39.99$32.772026-08-112026-09-122026-08-11 — best price $39.992026-09-04 — best price $39.992026-09-08 — best price $39.992026-09-10 — best price $32.772026-09-11 — best price $39.992026-09-12 — best price $39.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

8.2k412026-08-25 — 164 pageviews2026-08-27 — 506 pageviews2026-08-29 — 396 pageviews2026-08-31 — 392 pageviews2026-09-02 — 854 pageviews2026-09-04 — 3,765 pageviews2026-09-06 — 2,801 pageviews2026-09-08 — 2,104 pageviews2026-09-10 — 7,890 pageviews2026-09-12 — 6,313 pageviews2026-09-14 — 6,498 pageviews2026-09-16 — 7,198 pageviews2026-09-18 — 4,770 pageviews2026-09-20 — 4,211 pageviews2026-09-22 — 3,424 pageviews2026-09-24 — 1,139 pageviews2026-09-26 — 1,199 pageviews2026-09-28 — 515 pageviews2026-09-30 — 80 pageviews2026-10-02 — 74 pageviews2026-10-04 — 63 pageviews2026-10-06 — 41 pageviews2026-10-08 — 51 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

52k2.4k2026-10-01 01:12 — 8,962 viewers2026-10-01 08:34 — 17,042 viewers2026-10-01 16:12 — 10,459 viewers2026-10-01 23:34 — 19,988 viewers2026-10-02 07:12 — 10,769 viewers2026-10-02 14:34 — 26,203 viewers2026-10-02 22:12 — 17,613 viewers2026-10-03 05:34 — 17,860 viewers2026-10-03 13:12 — 3,608 viewers2026-10-03 20:34 — 24,159 viewers2026-10-04 04:12 — 4,819 viewers2026-10-04 11:34 — 15,091 viewers2026-10-04 19:12 — 22,107 viewers2026-10-05 02:34 — 18,741 viewers2026-10-05 10:12 — 14,428 viewers2026-10-05 17:34 — 29,845 viewers2026-10-06 01:12 — 37,568 viewers2026-10-06 08:34 — 13,332 viewers2026-10-06 16:12 — 8,179 viewers2026-10-07 01:34 — 13,633 viewers2026-10-07 09:12 — 6,121 viewers2026-10-07 17:34 — 15,859 viewers2026-10-08 02:12 — 5,777 viewers2026-10-08 09:34 — 11,904 viewers2026-10-08 21:34 — 14,441 viewers2026-10-09 05:34 — 8,680 viewers2026-10-09 14:34 — 10,177 viewers2026-10-10 01:34 — 11,633 viewers2026-10-10 09:12 — 3,903 viewers2026-10-10 20:35 — 21,227 viewers2026-10-11 08:34 — 8,017 viewers2026-10-11 20:35 — 12,787 viewers2026-10-12 05:34 — 9,016 viewers2026-10-12 13:34 — 10,235 viewers2026-10-12 23:34 — 13,024 viewers2026-10-13 07:12 — 4,303 viewers2026-10-13 19:34 — 11,194 viewers2026-10-14 05:34 — 4,687 viewers2026-10-14 20:34 — 12,630 viewers2026-10-15 00:34 — 6,118 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

10
achievements tracked
59.7%
earned "This is WARDOGS"
0.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPSteam AchievementsCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsStereo SoundSurround SoundFamily Sharing2 DLC

13 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Polish…

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2026-07-03, latest 2026-09-10 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)0—10

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Recent updates

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