Today, 12th March 2026, Highguard has been delisted from digital storefronts, and is no longer playable as developer Wildlight Entertainment shuts the game down.
Indeed, searching for Highguard on PS Store now returns zero results.
A free-to-play online multiplayer shooter from some of the minds behind Apex Legends and Titanfall, Highguard failed to generate similar levels of interest as those titles, ultimately winding things down just 45 days after its official launch.
Highguard made its debut at The Game Awards 2025 as the final announcement of the show, and this alone left a bad taste in the mouths of the people watching.
Total radio silence from Wildlight followed, leading many to speculate that the game could be in some sort of trouble after the tepid reaction from Geoff Keighley’s awards show.
However, the game launched on 26th January as planned, and initially reached pretty impressive player counts. Unfortunately this didn’t last very long, with most of its users ditching the game pretty fast.
Exactly why it failed to resonate is tricky to pin down, but we saw a lot of commentary online about its complex main mode, slow pacing at the start of matches, and a desire for higher player counts.
Whatever the case may be, Highguard was obviously planned to be around for a long time, but because it didn’t pick up any steam, Wildlight Entertainment had to lay off a majority of its staff in an effort to keep it alive, just two weeks after launch.
It’s not a very fun story, but it’s perhaps the perfect example of just how risky it can be to enter this part of the market.
There’s huge potential for big success when it comes to live service multiplayer games; many of the biggest titles around are exactly that. However, the flip side is just as steep.
For every Helldivers 2 or ARC Raiders, there are games like Concord or Highguard that simply don’t move the needle. And it’s not even that they’re bad, really; the competition is just unbelievably tough.
Anyway, that’s that. Were you a fan of Highguard? Are you sad to see it go offline? Tell us in the comments section below.
