Bulkhead and Team17 today announced that Wardogs has surpassed one million copies sold, as the 100-player tactical FPS launches into Steam early access today.
The milestone comes after huge interest in Wardogs throughout its road to launch, with the game previously reaching more than one million Steam wishlists, just a month prior.
Wardogs reached 100,000 Steam wishlists just three days after its reveal a while ago, and it passed 500,000 in May and hit one million wishlists in August. Now, as the game enters early access today, the one million wishlists have become more than one million copies sold.
“To cross a million copies sold as we launch into early access is mental,” said Joe Brammer, CEO at Bulkhead, in a statement. “We’ve spent the last few months showing people exactly what Wardogs is, what it isn’t, and at one point literally gave everyone ten reasons not to buy it. We didn’t want people buying into blind hype. So seeing more than one million people choose to jump in and play the game at early access launch means a huge amount to all of us.
But this is still early access. We’ve got things to fix, things we want to improve and a lot more we want to build. The best thing players can do now is keep playing, keep telling us what they think and keep giving us those ridiculous Wardogs moments.”
Player feedback has shaped Wardogs throughout its road to Early Access. Nearly half a million players joined the August Closed Beta, while the final pre-launch test peaked at 245,118 concurrent players on Steam.
The tests helped Bulkhead improve performance and stability, while thousands of community clips, streams and videos gave players an unfiltered look at the game ahead of launch.
To celebrate the community, Bulkhead is running the #WARDOGS100K Clip Contest, looking for the best plays, biggest fails and most chaotic moments from the game.
The best overall clip will win $100,000 in cash, with the rest of the Top 100 each receiving $100,000 in Wardogs in-game cash. Visit wardogs100k.com for more info.
Wardogs is available now in Steam Early Access: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1867240/WARDOGS/
Wardogs will launch on PlayStation 5 and Xbox in 2028, with players able to wishlist the game on both platforms from today.
Wardogs is a Tactical All Out Warfare FPS where 100 players split across three rival teams fight for control of a dynamic battlefield.
Combining tactical gunplay, combined-arms combat, construction, destruction and large-scale team play, Wardogs gives players the freedom to decide how they fight, how they support their team and how they make their money.
Bulkhead is a video game development studio based in Derby, United Kingdom, with an ambition to make a mark on the FPS genre.
Founded in 2015 by a small group of friends the studio has expanded from creating acclaimed indie titles like The Turing Test and Battalion 1944 to building a larger team focused on ambitious multiplayer experiences such as Wardogs. The studio was recently acquired from Tencent by a newly-formed consortium comprising SMG, Everplay and Hiro Capital Capital and Bulkhead’s latest title Wardogs is being published by Team17.
Founded in 1990, team17 is part of everplay group plc, and a passionate and creative developer and publisher dedicated to its pioneering independent partners and games. Team17 has an extensive portfolio of over 150 titles that players around the world love for a lifetime, including Dredge, Date Everything!, and Overcooked.