WARDOGS game

WARDOGS game is a 100-player three-squad tactical FPS developed by BULKHEAD and published by Team17 on Steam under AppID 1867240. It entered Steam Early Access on September 10, 2026 at $39.99 USD with a $54.99 Supporter Edition. The Closed Beta weekend (2026-08-21 to 2026-08-23) ran one month before launch and is past as of 2026-09-28. Players fight in Control Zone matches with a persistent cash economy that funnels into gold bars, a Black Market and a Vault end-game. ## WARDOGS game identity and launch window WARDOGS game is a brand-new Steam AppID rather than a sequel or port. The developer BULKHEAD (a UK-based studio) and the publisher Team17 are both credited on the Steam store page for AppID 1867240, and the September 10, 2026 Steam Early Access launch is the first public launch window. The Steam page also lists Easy Anti-Cheat Kernel Level and 14 supported interface languages including Simplified Chinese, which means WARDOGS game ships with broad language coverage on day one. The Closed Beta weekend (2026-08-21 to 2026-08-23) was the only pre-launch public test before Early Access. That window is already past at the research date, so the September 10 EA launch is the canonical search user touchpoint. The Steam wishlist signal approaches nearly one million wishlists per Games.gg, and the Steam Popular Coming Soon / Top Sellers rankings tracked in the build-now brief point to a single-store, single-launch-day release. ## Control Zone mode and gameplay loop The headline mode is Control Zone, a 2x2km random zone where three squads (up to 100 players total) race to 100 points on a 30-second scoring tick. The lineage is ARMA KOTH, a king-of-the-hill pattern lifted into a three-faction economy. The mode is supported by the official Steam description and the BULKHD 'Early Access & Beyond' reveal video on the studio's YouTube channel. Inside the squad, deployable roles change how a single player contributes. The named roles on the Steam page and the BULKHD reveal include a ghillie suit sniper, an arms dealer who sells to squadmates, a supply-ferry helicopter, artillery, a builder who Fortifies locations and a medic. Fighter jets are framed as a later-season unlockable. Each role interacts with the destructible and buildable environment — rocket launchers can collapse apartment buildings, tanks can shove through towns, and Fortify calls lock down strongpoints. ## Persistent cash economy and end-game WARDOGS game runs on a persistent cash economy rather than a per-match reset. Each squad starts a Control Zone round with $10,000 in match cash, equipment and vehicles are purchased across rounds, and cash carries between matches. A Hot Zone doubles the cash reward inside the active control area for risk-taking squads, which pushes squads into contested fights rather than passive holds. The end-game layer is gold bars. At the end of each season the persistent cash funnel converts into gold bars, and the gold bars feed into a Black Market and a Vault system that sit above the per-match economy. The economy framing is taken from the official Steam description and the BULKHD 'Early Access & Beyond' reveal video. Specific weapon and vehicle prices, and the exact gold bar exchange rate, are subject to Early Access tuning as the launch window opens. ## Launch vehicles and roles at EA The launch vehicle surface covers a helicopter that doubles as attack and supply ferry, a tank with an artillery variant that locks down a position, and the ground-based artillery role. Fighter jets are framed as a later-season unlockable in the BULKHD reveal, so they are not on the EA launch roster. Vehicles are purchased through the same persistent cash economy that drives the role kit, and each vehicle fits a different tactical slot in the squad. The named role set at EA is the same six: ghillie suit, arms dealer, helicopter pilot, artillery, builder and medic. Combined with the three-squad Control Zone race, that gives WARDOGS game a layered tactical loop where squad composition, vehicle choice and the cash economy all feed the same race to 100 points. Proximity voice chat is on by default, and Hardcore mode removes killcam, simplifies the HUD and forces vehicles into first-person view. ## Launch-window summary For a search user in the launch window, WARDOGS game boils down to a handful of load-bearing facts. The Steam AppID is 1867240. The developer is BULKHEAD and the publisher is Team17. The Early Access launch is September 10, 2026 at $39.99 with a $54.99 Supporter Edition. The mode is a 100-player three-squad Control Zone race with a persistent cash economy and a gold bars / Black Market / Vault end-game. Day-one platform is Windows PC on Steam, with PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, Switch 2 and Steam Deck verified status not announced as of 2026-09-28.

Release

September 10, 2026

Developer

BULKHEAD + Team17

Platform

Steam (AppID 1867240)