Just a few weeks after launch and less than three months after it was first announced at the Game Awards, Highguard is…still alive. But its official website is suddenly down, sparking online rumors that the game is not long for this world.
The raid shooter’s big reveal as the last teaser of the night at the 2025 Game Awards in December didn’t go over as planned, with people turning on the game in seconds, declaring it generic and criticizing whether the world needed another free-to-play online-only shooter. A period of radio silence followed, leading to content creators filling the void with endless amounts of negative videos and online speculation running wild. When Highguard finally did launch in January, it kicked off with over 90k concurrent players on Steam before losing nearly all of them within 48 hours. Later updates and a 5v5 mode didn’t help bring people back. Layoffs hit Wildlight Entertainment shortly after. And now the website for the game is down, and people are wondering if this is it.
As spotted by Rebs Gaming and others, it appears that earlier today, the official PlayHighguard.com website was replaced with a static page, with a message that just says “This site is currently unavailable” and an email to ping about it. Kotaku has contacted Wildlight.
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