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Wardogs servers outage
The gist
WARDOGS servers went down on its Sep 10 Steam Early Access launch.
Over 300,000 players rushed in, leaving Mixed reviews and queue fixes to watch.
How it unfolded
- Sep 10, 2026WARDOGS launches into Steam Early Access on PC at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET, crossing 1 million sales and hitting a peak concurrent player count of 337,157 on SteamDB.
- Sep 10, 2026Servers go down on launch day as over 300,000 people rush to play; players hit error codes, long queues, or cannot get into the game.
- Sep 10, 2026Bulkhead releases a 200+ MB client hotfix, forcing all logged-in players to close and restart the game; everyone returns to the login queue and is let in in controlled batches that gradually increase.