Highguard has a 78% positive rating from Steam players who've actually given it a fair shake

27 Jan 2026PCGamesN

Something really peed me off about Highguard's launch, and it wasn't just the inconsistent servers. As soon as the game launched yesterday, everyone raced to post Steam charts and that dreaded 'overwhelmingly negative' tag on social media. As is now the norm, forum threads offered users the chance to predict the game's peak player count in the first week. But we can't truly judge a game from just numbers and graphs, especially ones so easily manipulated. It turns out that, if you look past the review bombs from players who have hardly touched the game, Highguard's stats tell a different story.

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