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Wardogs

Wardogs 1.0 and console release: Dec 2028Not announced: our best guess from Bulkhead's plan to bring Wardogs to PlayStation 5 and Xbox, with 1.0, in 2028.

Best guess

Bulkhead's launch trailer says Wardogs is "COMING TO CONSOLES IN 2028", and CEO Joe Brammer calls the goal "the 1.0 launch on console", but no date is announced, so we count to the end of 2028, the last day the announced year allows. Bulkhead on Steam

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Overview

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BulkheadWardogs is made by Bulkhead (formerly Bulkhead Interactive), a studio in Derby, UK, that says it was founded in 2015 and is known for The Turing Test and Battalion 1944. Tencent sold it in Dec 2025 to a consortium of Super Media Group, everplay and HIRO Capital; Team17 publishes Wardogs.
Development HistoryWardogs began at Bulkhead as a Tencent-backed AAA shooter and was scaled back to Steam Early Access after Tencent sold the studio in Dec 2025. It was built over 3+ years with the creators of the Arma King of the Hill mod (Sa-Matra), on Bulkhead's War Dynamics Framework in Unreal Engine 5, and planned for 5,000 concurrent players before 428,666 arrived.
Early Access and RoadmapWardogs has been in Steam Early Access since Sep 10, 2026, and Bulkhead says it will stay there "around 1 to 2 years", with 1.0 tied to the PS5 and Xbox versions planned for 2028. Planned but not yet in the game: player skills, custom loadouts, limited and primitive servers, more maps, fighter jets and the Black Market & Vault; the price is planned to rise from $39.99 to $49.99 and then $59.99.
Player CountWardogs had 85,929 people playing on Steam on Oct 26, 2026, with a peak of 199,595 in the past day. Its all-time Steam peak is 428,666 on Sep 13, 2026, three days after the Early Access launch, whose first-day peak was 337,157 (SteamDB). Season 2 lifted the count from about 125,000 to 336,679 on Oct 15.
Reception and ReviewsWardogs is rated Mostly Positive on Steam (74% of 80,852 English reviews) but Mixed over the last 30 days (55% of 45,402) as of Oct 26, 2026, after Season 2 and a 175 ms ping cap brought its worst review days. Critics like it: Eurogamer called it "a brilliantly refreshing take on the genre", and it has no Metascore yet.
Release HistoryWardogs was announced on Feb 5, 2026, opened pre-orders on Aug 11, ran two closed betas (the second turned into an open beta on Sep 5) and entered Steam Early Access on Thursday, Sep 10, 2026, at 16:00 UTC. Season 2 arrived on Oct 15, 2026, and Season 3 is expected on Nov 12, 2026, per Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer.
WardogsWardogs is Bulkhead's All-Out Warfare first-person shooter, published by Team17 and in Steam Early Access on Windows since Sep 10, 2026 at $39.99. Up to 100 players in three teams (Lonestar, Valkyra and Manticore) fight over a randomized 2x2 km Control Zone, the first team to 100 points wins, and every player starts with $10,000 in cash that carries from match to match within a season.