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GUARDS!

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.

Released Mar 1, 2024 Developer WYLDERZONE, Lowkey GameDev Publisher WYLDERZONE Platforms Windows Online Co-OpCo-opFirst-PersonFantasyPvE
View on Steam ↗ $9.99 (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.

69.4%positive497 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“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
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“-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
Not recommended · 2 found this helpful

“game is unfinished and its been out for two years now. players other than host teleport.”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.

34achievements
3.8%median completion
0.2%rarest: Hostage Rescue
90.7% of players 80.9% of players 71.0% of players 69.0% of players 55.7% of players 39.1% of players 37.5% of players 26.9% of players 26.8% of players 21.6% of players 19.3% of players 9.1% of players 6.3% of players 5.9% of players 5.7% of players 4.8% of players 3.9% of players 3.8% of players 3.3% of players 2.2% of players 2.0% of players 2.0% of players 1.8% of players 1.3% of players 1.0% of players 0.6% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 0.2% of players 90.7% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
90.7%Mega Slums Patroller — Start a Patrol in the Mega Slums
80.9%First Patrol — Join an online Patrol
71.0%Heavy Weapon Expert — Hidden achievement
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%Hostage Rescue — Complete 20 Hostage Missions
0.3%Crypt Guard — Win 20 Patrols in the Crypt District
0.3%Patrol Officer — Complete 100 Patrols

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-08-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$9.99current · sampled 2026-09-25 21:36 UTC
$4.99lowest since tracking began2026-09-03
US9.99 USD
EU8.33 EUR
UK7.20 GBP
Australia11.99 AUD
Canada9.99 CAD
Japan999 JPY
Brazil24.99 BRL
China36.62 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$4.8 China Japan Canada Australia EU UK US≈$10.0

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 08-12 08-21 08-30 09-08 09-16 09-25

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jun 21, 2025
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

Apr 29, 2025
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

Mar 15, 2024
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

Mar 07, 2024
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

Mar 05, 2024
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.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie
Player tagsOnline Co-Op · Co-op · First-Person · Fantasy · PvE · Action · Dungeon Crawler · Hack and Slash · Medieval · Difficult · Third Person · Exploration (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesMulti-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Ukrainian *
ControllerFull support
Achievements34
Official sitehttps://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