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1. Developer: Bulkhead
2. Publisher: Team17
3. Status: Early access on Windows via Steam
4. Early access launch: 10 September 2026 (per Wikipedia contributors)
5. Platforms at early access: Windows (Steam) (per Valve (Steam))
6. Planned additional platforms: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S (2028)
7. Price (Standard): $39.99
8. Price (Supporter Edition): $49.99
9. Steam user reviews: Mixed, 64% positive of 9,576 reviews
10. Overview
11. Wardogs is an in-development multiplayer first-person shooter from the British studio Bulkhead, with Team17 acting as publisher on the Steam store page. According to Wikipedia contributors, the game entered early access on 10 September 2026 and is not a finished release. Bulkhead has stated that it plans to keep the game in early access for roughly one to two years before a full release.
12. According to Team17, the developers describe the game as 'Tactical All Out Warfare'. The Wardogs format draws on the 'King of the Hill' mod for Arma 3.
13. Gameplay
14. A Wardogs match puts one hundred players on a single server. Those players are split into three teams that contest a randomly placed 2 by 2 km control zone inside a 256 km² sandbox map, with the first faction to reach 100 points winning the round. According to Valve (Steam), the map and its cover are destructible, and the three-team structure is what distinguishes the game from a two-sided shooter.
15. Each player begins a life with $10,000 in in-match cash and uses it to buy a custom loadout drawn from weapons, gear, utility and vehicles. Valve (Steam) records that Cash earned during play persists across matches, forming a persistent economy tied to the player's account. The Steam store page describes the game's anti-cheat approach as kernel-level.
16. Content available at early access launch, as listed by Tech Times, includes three maps with three variations each, 37 weapons, 21 vehicle types, the persistent cash system, and proximity voice chat.
17. Platforms and pricing
18. Early access launched on Windows through Steam on 10 September 2026. In September 2026 Bulkhead announced that Wardogs would also release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2028. The studio has also said it is working on Proton and Linux support.
19. The Standard Edition is priced at $39.99 in early access, with a Supporter Edition available for $49.99.
20. Development
21. Bulkhead Interactive is a British studio based in Derby, founded in 2015 by University of Derby graduates, and was previously part of the Tencent-owned group that included Splash Damage.
22. According to Wikipedia, Bulkhead pitched Wardogs to Tencent at a budget of around £10–12 million; Tencent rejected the project, saying it wanted to 'go bigger', after which Bulkhead signed with Team17.
23. During development Bulkhead laid off several workers, a step the company has said directly affected QA testing. In September 2026 BisectHosting was announced as a hosting partner for Wardogs, with the aim of balancing server performance before full release.
24. Marketing and announcements
25. Team17 announced Wardogs on 5 February 2026 alongside a reveal trailer uploaded to its own YouTube channel the same day. A gameplay trailer followed on Bulkhead's YouTube channel on 6 June 2026 and was also shown at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase that day.
26. Bulkhead ran its own inaugural FPS Games Show showcase on 3 September 2026, after the studio said it had been quoted $300,000 for a 60-second slot at an existing event. At the show a $100,000 Clip Contest was announced, with entries closing at 23:59 BST on 8 October 2026; the top clip was set to win $100,000 in real money, with 99 finalists each receiving $100,000 in in-game cash. A full-game showcase was livestreamed to Twitch the same day.
27. Reception
28. On Steam, English-language user reviews for Wardogs sat at 'Mixed' with 64% positive out of 9,576 reviews as of 11 September 2026. Wardogs reportedly reached the number-one position on the Steam charts within hours of its early access launch on 10 September 2026, with over 1,000,000 Steam wishlists and 1,000,000 copies sold by that point.
29. Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer said the studio's internal target for Wardogs had been 5,000 concurrent players, a figure that closed-beta numbers far exceeded. He also publicly expressed concern that Wardogs 'hype' would 'die down' before launch, and described the in-game cash system with the line 'Cash is the best anticheat'.
30. Player figures across the test events
31. The first closed beta ran from 21 to 23 August 2026: Tech Times reported nearly 500,000 unique players and a peak of 105,774 concurrent Steam players according to SteamDB, while Wikipedia gave a peak of 'over 100,000'. The second closed beta ran from 3 to 6 September 2026 and peaked at 245,118 concurrent Steam players on 5 September 2026 at 17:38 UTC, per SteamDB; Tech Times reported the game passing 200,000 concurrent players shortly before that peak, placing it fourth on Steam behind CS2, Dota 2 and PUBG.
32. Videos
33. The reveal The publisher Team17's reveal trailer, uploaded to its own YouTube channel on 5 February 2026, showing how the game was first presented to the public.
34. What Wardogs is The developer Bulkhead's own showcase from the FPS Games Show on 19 August 2026, outlining the 100-player, three-team, single-zone format.
35. A round played end to end A player's recording of an ALPHA playtest from 11 August 2026: roughly twenty-four minutes of unedited match footage recorded a month before early access release.
36. 2026-02-05: Wardogs announced by Team17; reveal trailer uploaded to Team17's YouTube channel.
37. 2026-06-06: Gameplay trailer released to Bulkhead's YouTube channel; also shown at Future Games Show Summer Showcase.
38. 2026-08-11: Player-recorded alpha playtest footage published.
39. 2026-08-19: Bulkhead showed Wardogs at its own FPS Games Show showcase.
40. 2026-08-21: First closed beta: nearly 500,000 unique players; peak 105,774 concurrent Steam players (SteamDB).
41. 2026-09-03: Bulkhead held the FPS Games Show livestream on Twitch and announced the $100,000 Clip Contest.
42. 2026-09-03: Second closed beta peaked at 245,118 concurrent Steam players on 5 September 2026 at 17:38 UTC (SteamDB).
43. 2026-09-07: BisectHosting announced as hosting partner for Wardogs.
44. 2026-09-10: Wardogs entered early access on Windows via Steam, priced at $39.99 (Standard) or $49.99 (Supporter).
45. 2028: Bulkhead announced planned PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S release.

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