WARDOGS release date and Steam Early Access launch

WARDOGS release date is September 10, 2026. The launch was a Steam-only Early Access event rather than a multi-store rollout — the Steam store page for AppID 1867240 is the canonical listing and the September 10 EA date appears directly on the store page. The launch landed inside the Steam Popular Coming Soon window, and the wishlist signal approaches nearly one million per Games.gg.

The September 10 date placed WARDOGS inside a tight pre-launch cadence. The Closed Beta weekend ran 2026-08-21 to 2026-08-23, giving pre-order players and invited testers a public test window three weeks before the EA launch., the EA window is live and the Steam store page has transitioned from Coming Soon to Available. Post-launch roadmap items, day-one patches and DLC plans are not announced.

The Steam Early Access base price is $39.99 USD. The Supporter Edition lists at $54.99 USD on the Steam store page. Eurogamer's pre-launch coverage confirms there is no micro-transaction beyond the two editions, so the EA monetization surface is the two flat-rate editions and the in-match cash economy that drives loadout purchases inside Control Zone rounds.

The price and edition structure means a launch-window search user should anchor on two facts: $39.99 for the base EA game and $54.99 for the Supporter Edition. Both are listed on the Steam store page, and the Eurogamer pre-launch coverage carries the same numbers. Any third-party key-reseller pricing, regional storefront pricing, or post-launch discount windows are not part of the canonical EA surface and are not re-confirmed here.

The Closed Beta weekend (2026-08-21 to 2026-08-23) was the only public pre-launch test before EA. Access was tied to pre-order plus invited Discord and Steam Playtest Request holders, per the Steam store page and Eurogamer pre-launch coverage. Easy Anti-Cheat Kernel Level was active during the test, which kept the beta surface clean of cheat reports.

The Closed Beta window is already past as of the 2026-09-28 research date, so the EA launch is the canonical touchpoint for any search user arriving in the launch window. Future test plans, additional closed beta weekends, and open beta status are not announced. The Steam Playtest Request channel stays open on the store page but is not promoted as an active test sign-up.

The relevant launch-window state changes are:

• 2026-08-21 to 2026-08-23: Closed Beta weekend runs (pre-order and invited players).
• 2026-09-10: WARDOGS release date — Steam Early Access goes live on AppID 1867240.
• 2026-09-28 (research date): EA is live; Steam review band and post-launch balance changes tracked from this point.

This is a single-store, single-date launch. There is no announced demo, no announced day-one patch, and no announced post-launch roadmap beyond the gold bars / Black Market / Vault end-game framing on the Steam page.