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WARDOGS
Developer BULKHEAD
Wardogs (stylised in all caps) is an upcoming first-person shooter video game developed by Bulkhead and published by Team17. It was released into closed beta on 22 August 2026 and into early access for Windows on 10 September 2026, with PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S releases scheduled for 2028. Inspired by the "King of the Hill" custom gamemode mod for Arma 3, Wardogs has players join one of three… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
386 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
60
Fresh
164 positive · 110 negative
95% range 54–65%
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| Steam reviews | 164 | 110 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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112 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
81,036 of 108,990 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Mixed launch with server issues, but core gameplay praised.
Many players praise the game as a perfect blend of Battlefield and Arma, offering tactical chaos and approachable milsim gameplay. They highlight the great gunplay, movement, and combined-arms mechanics, with some calling it the most fun they've had in an FPS since 2018 Tarkov. [3][7][4]
However, the launch was plagued by massive server queues and access denied errors, leading some to call it a 'queue waiting simulator.' Critics also point to a broken economy that rewards grinding over objective play, making it unfriendly to casual players and causing team stacking and gear imbalance. [1][25][31]
Praised gameplay blend of Battlefield and Arma · gunplay and movement · dev responsiveness
Criticised server issues at launch · unbalanced economy and progression · anti-casual design
Summary drafted by an AI model from the 36 reactions it cites ([n] links open each post), then checked by code: every paragraph cites real posts and every quote is verbatim. Written Oct 7, 2026. Method
Reactions
60 of 386 · most liked firstStarts up game, queue at 8k. Waits until end of queue; ACCESS DENIED. Restarts game. Queue 48k. Waits in queue; ACCESS DENIED. Restarts game. 128k queue. Waits in queue. ACCESS DENIED. 10/10 queue waiting simulator.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, but i miss colorblind mode.... i cant join the red team, since i cant see the red when running in a green environment. I would love if there was a way for me to change the colors of the teams. I have killed so many friendlies :C EDIT: Wow, seems my review got a lot more traction than i thought it would, some people even tracking my hours played..... So for all the people salty, a quick clarification: I do like the game, it is original and it has me hooked. The different…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →70 Hours in closed beta-before you say I don't, go check playtest instead of wardogs game lol Love the game, great studio/dev team. The launch today is rough, they obvs never expected the slam for Early Access like this. The love of gaming is why I am leaving this review asking you to not negative hit it and give it a shot when the servers settle down later today- They are getting actively DDOS attacks at the same time as launch. I will update this review as time passes. -Update The servers…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In its current state, I cannot recommend this game to competitive players. The foundation here is genuinely fantastic. The core mechanics, gunplay, movement, and role designs all feel great. Unfortunately, the entire experience is being crippled by massive systemic and community issues that drain the fun out of matches. 1. Severe Team Stacking and Culture (The Biggest Issue) The community has essentially broken the faction balance: Green (Tryhards/Sweats): Everyone wants to be on Green. Good…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you want Arma 3's KotH gamemode on the Arma 4 engine early, but without any of the Arma jank or learning curve, get this game. If you want PlanetSide 2 vibes, get this game. If you want Battlefield's approachability, get this game. If you want COD, go play Battlefield 6.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Perfect middle ground if you're tired of Arma and Battlefield. It's not as arcadey as Battlefield and not as hardcore as Arma. Devs are listening to players and care about what people have to say. Community is great too. Genuinely the most fun I've had in an fps game since 2018 Tarkov.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game itself is fun, BUT it suffers from TARKOV syndrome. Meaning you will always be at a massive disadvantage to players who only grind the game nonstop. All gear is level locked so you will be one shot by better weapons than you have access to, you will be unable to kill most enemies with better armour and they will demolish you with better access to vehicles. It completely saps the fun out of a game when a match is decided by who has spent more hours grinding for high-tier stat advantages…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even though the game is fun there are many many glaring issues that need to be fixed or addressed and currently I dont recommend buying the game in this state unless you can afford to spend 8hrs a day grinding 1. Infantry is not viable There is currently no incentive to play infantry over the other roles a standard lv 2 armour kit with a galil and meds will run you back 10k and require 5 kills to make back the cost of the kit at least, compare that to delivering pallets from a blackhawk it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is fun, launch is rough. Stay calm and carry on
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Battlefield + Arma vibes, tactical chaos, private servers, only 41.7GB, and seasonal resets that turn your cash, levels & gear into cosmetic currency. Every death matters, you buy your guns & gear each spawn, and even a revive won't save your gear if you get looted. Now just gotta survive the 213,613 player queue...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wardogs feels like a combination of Battlefield 3 and Arma. There is no bunny hopping, slide canceling, or insane movement speed. Just good old fashion FPS goodness and I love it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was good now its just turned into whos must unemployed and can grind it out and ♥♥♥♥ on you, so boring if you have an actual job and cannot commit several hours a day/week
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beta was awesome. Game is great. Although the dev's should've put a ♥♥♥♥ ton more servers up. Sat in a queue of over 200k just to get booted in the last few thousand and have to start over. Aside from their lack of foresight to the demand via preorders, this game slaps in the best possible way
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL:DR - Recommended, but with major Early Access warnings. This game has a fantastic foundation with great gunplay, movement, roles, vehicles, logistics, and combined-arms gameplay. When you get a balanced match where everyone is actually fighting to win, it's an absolute blast. Unfortunately, the systems surrounding that gameplay are currently working against it. I still recommend WARDOGS because the core game is simply that much fun, but go in knowing that there are major systemic issues that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game that shows great respect for the support units.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WARDOGS has a good idea at its core, but right now there isn't enough content to back it up, and the progression ruins it. At the start you unlock a lot pretty quickly, and it feels great. Then it hits a wall. The gear that actually matters, like the M4, AP ammo and level 3 armour, is locked behind a huge amount of grinding, and you have to play a ridiculous number of matches to get there. The problem is you're not grinding in a vacuum. The people who put in more hours get that gear before…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For the first few days after launch, this game was absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately, some issues have started to emerge as people have gained more knowledge, and not for the better. Part of the issue is the game design itself. It's designed as a competitive game, yet there is absolutely no reward for winning, and thus no incentive to actually play to win. Instead, since your personal progress/unlocks are based around your experience and cash earned, people tend to focus on doing things that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Does no one remember the Helldivers 2 launch? What are these reviews talking about "streamers". They are having the same issues as other players... BurntPeanut, for example, is currently waiting in queue lol. It's an indie studio, it's their first major launch, and it's been recieving so much praise. Of course servers are going to be messed up right now. The devs are already working their asses off to fix the game. Ignore these 0.1-0.5 playtime reviews. They aren't even giving the game a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Launch Day Queue. Just like every online game that has ever existed. Great work BULKHEAD! Keep it up!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game has polish and a bunch of mechanics that work well together with the exception of a broken build + objective system combo that drags EVERYTHING down like a black hole. FoBs aren't overpowered so much as frustrating and boring. There's a huge, fun and well designed map. But 99% of your playtime will be focused around the same copy-paste tower with the same square FoB base underneath hiding a spawn vehicle that pours bodies into a meat grinder of endless mortar shells. If you're lucky there…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The less you play the objective in WARDOGS, the more you are rewarded. This game has a fundamental problem that is rapidly worsening, each team now just consists of players who do nothing all game but sit inside their F.O.Bs building, mortaring and farming XP and $$, but not actually contributing at all to their team. And the game encourages this playstyle, as an example: I bought a standard loadout ($10,000) and a helicopter ($6000) to get to the front. I brought 5 other people alongside…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overhyped and stupidly unbalanced piece of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. How am I supossed to kill someone with lvl. 4 helmet when my SKS does only 27 damage since the helmet absorbs 75 damage dealt? 3 headshots wasnt enough to kill a guy that has grinded his life away in this game. If you are a working man/women with a family there is no way that you will ever be in a "good position" in this game without spending a lot of time grinding since this game has wipe mechanic. No wonder everyone sits in base or does…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get killed, wait for rez, team mate comes up steals 20k loadout then rez me with my own defib. i don't have a gun anymore, just hands. punch him to death to get my ♥♥♥♥ back but cant loot tk'ed team mates even if they steal all of your ♥♥♥♥. if you are downed, your own team should not be allowed to loot your gear with out a confirmation, or only be able to loot the emergency resuscitator. also if you fall behind don't bother trying to catch up with the sweats just play a different game 10/10…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is amazing, love it and love the devs. It's quickly being ruined during all night time and morning hours by chinese flooding into NA west servers. They don't speak english, they don't play the objective, they farm exp off the map somewhere, many of them are obviously cheating. Game is great until you play during the late evening or morning hours then it is turning into 80% chinese lobbies in NA west. This is inexcusable. Region lock china or face the same fate as pubg. This will kill…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game for the unemployed, or moderate to large free time havers. Very bad game for people without much free time. Or want instant gratification. New info: game can freeze occassionally when you are flying helicopter or at important fights, causing forced latest input movement even until unfreeze, causing mass team murder or self suicide. devs please fix.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →REGION LOCK CHINA, Amazing game, love almost all aspects regarding what is on offer for an early access title, the game we have been waiting for since bad company 2 IRT sniping and destruction as well as the relative variety of how and what way you wish to play, my only gripe that has almost ruined my experience for this game is that every server/round in the afternoon always has a laggy high ping Chinese or Russian's that cheat and ruin the experience, high ping and 90% headshot ratio, it is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone who loves Arma 3 KOTH, Hell Let Loose, and old school Battlefield games.. this feels like the perfect mix of the three. The economy system is such a great way to incentivize team play. Teammates almost always go for revives or wait for a full vehicle before leaving spawn because it’s actually worth it, especially for new players that are broke. Proximity VOIP across all teams is amazing, immersive, and hilarious. The logistics and FOB building is amazing, and it’s still early…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Technical incompetence meets anti-casual game design. 1. Zero Tech Support for Game-Breaking Errors Windows update KB5124010 completely broke the game with error WD-L020. While major developers push compatibility fixes in hours, Team17 takes days sending copy-paste templates telling us to force-uninstall system files. For a studio making over $80M CAD, their technical response is embarrassing. 2. Anti-Working-Class Wipes The seasonal reset/wipe loop is a disaster for anyone with a job.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really really really really want to like this game but they have a few things to fix first. I have updated this review after additional playtime. If I were you i'd wait until the first big wipe/patch day in a couple weeks and see how it's going from there. Good: Gunplay generally feels ok. I think the game concept as a whole is fine. When its actually working I have fun. Any issue can probably be fixed without major game restructuring. The Bad: Team balance is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gunplay and core concept are great, but the progression balance is so out of whack and most people haven't realized the full ramifications of that, but in 2 weeks from review date (with no patches) the entire narrative toward this game is going to change. People who can grind 120 hours in 2 weeks are going to have and always will have an incredible advantage, the countermeasures against high tier items are gated behind "only" 40 hours of grinding, and the things you have to do to grind…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you cannot afford to put 50+ hours a week into this game then it is not worth the money. You will have no chance in 80% of the combat scenarios. For reference, I have around 60 active hours and I've only hit level 60 something which is no where near reaching the strongest gear (tier 4 armor, armor pen ammo, best weapons, etc.). The players who lack employment / social lives / anything outside this game have an INSANE advantage. You can hit someone 8 times (1 head, 7 body) and not kill…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game currently held back by its unbalanced economy Edits: Slightly updated wording & formatting for better readability. Game overall is great and has been a blast. Rather than go over the same positives that everyone has already stated multiple times in other reviews, I want to focus on the biggest issues I've noticed over the 50 hours I've played over the past week: The economy heavily incentivizes avoiding combat The biggest problem I've noticed is that the economy doesn't properly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not able to play because of WD-L020 CRASH ERROR.... Multiple days and no reaction or communication from devs
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ignore the noise. Negative reviews are about overloaded servers at launch. Something that has never happened in any game release ever. /s Game itself is brilliant. I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. Edit: Comments absolutely malding because in 2026, cutting a small studio some slack for a miscaluclated launch counts as shilling out. Not even sure what there is to be mad about. I woke up at dead dark ♥♥♥♥ you hours of the morning to play first thing but then spent 6…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its got everything I love about Battlefield, Squad and Hell Let Loose in one game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game came out of the blue for me, but as someone who grew up with BF3 and CoD4 and has been looking for the same experience I once had, I can wholeheartedly say: I've found it. Milsims have never been my cup of tea, but this game is the perfect blend between all my favorite fps games. That, in combination with the devs being based af, makes me recommend this game to any millennial with a craving for the good old times. 11/10 would play games till 4am again only to realize I have a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →spent a good hour learning the game and 3 and a half hours calling people slurs and getting called slurs back. Didn't get banned. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →**The progression system is way too slow** I really enjoy the gameplay, but the progression system is becoming a major problem for me. Unlocking new gear feels **unnecessarily slow and grindy**. At this point, it almost feels like you need a second job just to unlock the equipment necessary to stay competitive. A lot of the unlocks aren't just cosmetic or optional either. You need better gear to properly deal with certain threats, better healing options to survive longer during fights,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Update: It appears they've fixed server issues. After playing a couple games, and playing closed beta, I can say it's a great game. Day 1 release: Very long queue times (FIXED). They should've at least let us access the firing range portion of the game without queue. Hopefully the queuing is fixed soon. Played the closed beta and it was good. edit Got to the front of the queue, then denied, then to the back of queue. Went from 0 in queue to 341k. Makes me want to suck start a 12 gauge.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a memory of playing Operation Flashpoint as a lad at a LAN party. A sniper was stationed on the top of a mountain, taking out every enemy vehicle as they attempted to assault their "hill". No objectives there. Just wanted a hill to call their own. I spent the better part of that afternoon assaulting that hill. When I finally got him, it became my hill. I held that hill the rest of our play session. We had some outstanding firefights on that tiny hill. Made a lot of great memories…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very fun game with friends solo bit mixed but enjoyable still would be great if our one friend would join us and we could all have fun you know who you are
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wardogs is amazing and fun to play. It’s for old heads like myself who don’t appeal to the twitchy shooting or battlepass-like Call of Duty or Battlefield 6. I like how you can earn money just being a good teammate, like reviving teammates, scouting and tagging enemies, transporting players and supplies, etc. It makes you feel like you’re contributing to the team while leveling up. I also enjoy the tactical feel of the guns and how much attention to detail they put into bullet velocity. For EA,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’ve been super addicted to a game called Wardogs 🫠 Obviously I have a super power advantage and can hold my sniper position way longer than most 👀 And it’s totally not cheering cause I heard real snipers do it too 😤 #abdl #abdlboy #adultdiaper #diaperboy
unlabelledView post →Great game, Devs should have known the amount of people who would play to have enough servers up on release
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, but sucks that they removed linux support.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Digital Heroin. This game helped me clear quite a bit of hard drive space as I've uninstalled all of my other shooters.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Uninstall — Would you like to uninstall Battlefield™ 6 from this device? It will remain in your Games Library, but to play it in the future, you will need to first redownload all of its content. Uninstall Battlefield 6 is just mindless slop. Their own “action around every corner” philosophy was taken to the literal extreme, completely destroying any design for meaningful and realistic teamwork and coordination of effects within the battlespace. While I understand they’re…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A breath of fresh air in the FPS genre. The launch was ♥♥♥♥♥♥, no doubt about it, but within a day things were up and running, and I honestly haven’t encountered a single issue since. I’ve only played a few matches so far, and I was initially concerned about there only being one game mode. But every respawn feels different enough to keep things fresh, and the variety in each match makes it surprisingly replayable. The teammates I’ve encountered have also been funny and, most importantly,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally Gamers made a game. Listen as of 9/11/2026 this is the most fun you will have in a shooter. Here is what's awesome - The social element, the cash game, large selection of weapons and attachments, Huge detailed maps with lots of cover and vertical, Everyone has their role to help the team - its concentrated ARMA. One of the most important thing this game nails is infantry speed - It feels like GrayZone with the ability to expend all your stamina to doubletime. If this is the start of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Misleading Progression Information I LOVE WARDOGS. I'm having an absolute blast playing this game. But I really wish I knew this before I started grinding, your level progression is reset at the end of the season, along with the unlocks tied to it. The problem is that this information is completely absent from the Steam store page. As of today, it talks about XP, progression and unlocking content, but does not say anywhere that your level progression is reset at the end of a season. That's a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →super fun game......until the unemployed no lifers finally unlock every single item in the game because they spend every waking second playing this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Progression information is misleading. I bought WARDOGS expecting a long-term progression experience, but I was disappointed to discover that seasonal wipes are part of the game. The biggest issue is that the Steam store page does not clearly explain how progression works or what happens to your unlocks after a wipe. If I had known that my progress could be reset, I would have made a different purchasing decision. I enjoy the combat, but I don't want to repeatedly grind for weapons,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Start was terrrible, couldn't play it, but rn devs fixed it. After 7k+ hours in CS I lost interest to play other games, Wardogs gives me that feeling that I can once again enjoy a game, which gives me joy and funny moments. I stopped playing CS and didn't have interest on other games, all was boring. Devs W. I am enjoying to play this game alone and with friend. Of cource this game has a lot bugs and stupid stuff with fps and etc, but it's playable and you don't even notice it if you have…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's a decent game in here somewhere, but at the moment it needs a lot of rework and balancing. Snipers are everywhere, mortars are crazy overpowered and nobody seems to bother chasing the objectives. Most people just build a base and sit in it, not bothering to go after the hot zone where the points are. This means most of the fighting boils down to being sniped or firing mortars at each other. You can go entire rounds without having more than one or two close combat fights, the rest is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tried taking a break from this game for a week, came back and everyone is almost max level, i cannot do anything without being sniped or blasted, attack helis are annoying as ♥♥♥♥, AT is clunky. I had alot of fun with this game the first week but after that its just miserable to play on official servers and not TEG servers. I hope they atleast do something with the meta progression, i am not very good in this aspect but still...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, the vehicle physics could still be improved
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After almost 50 hours on this , I came with the conclusion that as of right now , the game is mega ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with even a bigger ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of a community. The amount of unbalanced problems this game faces from Blue getting stomped every match (you sometimes rarely see them win) , from green having the best camo (and I really blame devs here for slight obvious bias because how as a developer of this game handling textures , etc , you look at green team then at red and blue and decide to go "Yeah ,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun game. I love how you are rewarded heavily for working as a team. My biggest complaint is progression. It should not take 220,000 xp to go from level 10 to level 20 when the cap is level 100. The grind feels too slow for a game that is planning to reset your progress every few months. No one will ever make it to the higher levels if that stays the same and that's kinda BS. I think that if they can tweak progression to not be such a slog fest then I think this game will continue to stay…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- excellent gunplay - cool vehicles - looks good and runs good - stable and polished at launch - some balance issues here and there but for the most part everything is good - the only battlefield style game in existence where medics will actually do their job and revive you - voice chat shenanigans - lots of different ways to play (can be truck driver, medic, heli pilot, sniper, builder, recon, artillery, mechanized infantry, annoying rat who blows up the other teams truck drivers and…
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