BULKHEAD and Team17 have scored an immediate multiplayer hit with WARDOGS. The 100 player tactical shooter cleared 2,000,000 sales in under 5 days on Steam Early Access. The breakout release also hit an all time peak of 428,666 concurrent players on Steam according to data from SteamDB.
Interest built up rapidly ahead of the public release. The project collected 100,000 Steam wishlists within 3 days of its initial reveal, eventually topping 1,000,000 wishlists just before launch. That early demand quickly translated into full servers as hundreds of thousands jumped into combat. BULKHEAD chief executive Joe Brammer spoke about the sudden influx of players.
Two million in less than five days is completely ridiculous. We knew there was a huge amount of excitement around WARDOGS going into launch, but nothing really prepares you for seeing this many people actually jump into the game. The numbers are massive, but the best part has been watching what players are doing with it. The clips, the insane strategies, the last second victories, the absolute chaos, that is the stuff we built WARDOGS for. We are still in Early Access and we are not pretending the work is finished. We are reading and watching reactions, fixing things, improving things and building what comes next.
The player base generated enormous statistics during the opening weekend. Matches produced over 122,200,000 kills, 86,100,000 headshots, and 60,700,000 teammate revives. The community racked up 188,900,000,000 total experience points while spending $561.9 billion in virtual cash out of $1.28 trillion earned.
Team play emerged as the primary way to earn score. Support is currently the top class by capturing 21.42% of all earned XP, followed closely by Assault at 20.54% and Medic at 19.97%. Recon secured 18.66% of the total, while vehicle roles rounded out the field with Driver taking 10.57% and Pilot holding 8.70%.
Extensive public testing helped stabilize the network before release. Pre launch test sessions drew nearly 500,000 participants, giving the developers valuable telemetry to polish server performance. BULKHEAD is now running a community clip competition offering a $100,000 cash prize for the top highlight, with 100 runners up receiving in game currency.
WARDOGS is available on Steam Early Access for PC players. Console editions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox are scheduled to arrive in 2028, with store wishlist pages open on both platforms.
