Wardogs, the brand new tactical shooter from Derby-based studio Bulkhead, has bought greater than 1,000,000 copies and passed 350,000 concurrent players inside hours of launching into Steam early entry.
As IGN experiences, the sport’s server queues crammed up shortly in consequence, with loads of gamers unable to leap straight right into a match on account of server congestion.
“To cross 1,000,000 copies bought as we launch into early entry is psychological,” stated Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer. “We have spent the previous couple of months exhibiting individuals precisely what Wardogs is, what it is not, and at one level actually gave everybody ten causes to not purchase it. We did not need individuals shopping for into blind hype.”
He continued: “So seeing multiple million individuals select to leap in and play the sport at early entry launch means an enormous quantity to all of us. However that is nonetheless early entry. We have got issues to repair, issues we need to enhance, and much more we need to construct. The perfect factor gamers can do now could be maintain enjoying, maintain telling us what they assume and maintain giving us these ridiculous Wardogs moments.”
Wardogs’ matches put as much as 100 gamers into three-way fights for management factors, mixing tactical taking pictures with car fight, base development, and destructible terrain.
The sport is at the moment PC-only by way of Steam, priced at £36.99, with Bulkhead confirming PS5 and Xbox variations are coming in 2028, although with no agency launch date.
Bulkhead has stated it expects curiosity to cool down over time, given the studio is planning a slower drip of content material updates reasonably than attempting to maintain launch-day numbers indefinitely.
For extra, take a look at our authentic protection of the early entry announcement, together with Bulkhead’s now-infamous “10 Reasons NOT to Buy” pre-order trailer here.