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GUARDS!
GUARDS! is an online co-op fantasy FPS that puts you in the underfunded and over-zealous steel boots of the City Watch. Kick down doors, bust criminals and cause excessive property damage as you fight to restore law and order to the corrupt city of New Alestead.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“This is UE5 asset shop slop at its finest - no offense to the devs. You know these models from various other slop titles, perhaps most with less attention given to them, but I don't believe you'll find that here. This is one of the fun ones, runs fairly well (on my system), and…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“-Destroy random Boxes because why not -get miffed up because of drugs hidden in these boxes -kill outlaws while on Drugs accurate day while working as a city Guard 10/10 can recommend”
— a player, Steam review · 57 hrs played“game is unfinished and its been out for two years now. players other than host teleport.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
GUARDS! Update #4 - Combat Clarity
Attention Recruits! As you may know from our previous update , we found ourselves in a situation where we couldn't actively work on GUARDS! as much as we'd like due to the ongoing console port. We are
GUARDS! Future Updates
Hello Recruits! People frequently ask if there will be future updates for GUARDS! and we're really happy that the game has found enough of an audience that there is demand for more medieval justice! T
UPDATE 8.2 - Removing Timers and more!
ATTENTION GUARDS! Version 8.2 is now live and with it we have addressed the most common issue you had with the game - timers! New Features Reinforcement Waves Timers are gone! Originally we added a ti
ADDRESSING YOUR FEEDBACK
ATTENTION GUARDS! It has now been a little under 6 days since we pushed the big green button and released GUARDS!. In that time we have had nearly 10'000 players and over 1.5 years worth of playtime g
DIFFICULTY UPDATE
ATTENTION GUARDS! Thank you to everyone who took the time to give us feedback on the forums, discord and in the reviews. Honestly, we were not prepared for the level of interest! Largely, the receptio
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Online Co-Op · Co-op · First-Person · Fantasy · PvE · Action · Dungeon Crawler · Hack and Slash · Medieval · Difficult · Third Person · Exploration (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Ukrainian * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 34 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://guards.cool |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64 Bit Processor: Intel i5, 3rd gen (or equivalent Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon HD 7870 DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 3 GB available space