Highguard’s problems are well documented. After its reveal at The Game Awards as the final game, it was heavily slated online, with players calling it yet another generic hero shooter. The game launched, its player count sank, and a significant portion of its developers were sadly laid off. One such developer suggested the game was “turned into a joke from minute one.”
Just a few days after launch, the game fell below Fragpunk, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and something called Wobbly Life in Steam’s Charts, but that was just the beginning, as today, it fell to 2,500th place, below 2003’s Call of Duty and BioShock Infinite, among many other things.
Highguard Falls Abysmally Low In Steam’s Revenue Charts
Steam’s charts aren’t calculated by the number of downloads, but instead by the revenue a game generates. This means a free-to-play game would need to sell $40 worth of cosmetics in order to receive the same ranking as a $40 game. Highguard is evidently not making much money right now, if its chart position is anything to go by.
At the time of writing, Highguard has dropped to a lowly 2,458 in the Steam charts, according to SteamDB. This position means it is making less money than Call of Duty in 2003, which is being sold for $10; Bioshock Infinite, which is being sold for $30; and Red Dead Online, which was released as an online component of Red Dead Redemption 2 back in 2019.
Somehow, Highguard is making less money than a lot of standalone cosmetics for games, including the Monster Hunter Wilds – Hunter Layered Armor Set: Cypurrpunk, which retails for $7.99.
Highguard’s fortunes are best encapsulated by its ongoing player count and its Steam reviews. Right now, it has a dedicated 508 players on the Valve-owned platform (who are clearly not willing to spend their hard-earned cash on the game), and it sits with a current review score of just 45.33 percent positive.If the game is to have any chance of surviving, it’ll need to turn its monetary fortunes around quickly.
- Released
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January 26, 2026
- Developer(s)
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Wildlight Entertainment
- Publisher(s)
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Wildlight Entertainment
- Multiplayer
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Online Multiplayer
- Cross-Platform Play
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Full
