Highguard Jumps up to "Mixed" Rating on Steam After Recent Update

Things seem to genuinely be looking up for Highguard, as the game has finally managed to shake that dreaded “Mostly Negative” rating on Steam thanks to Wildlight Entertainment’s latest patch.

Is Highguard a good game? That’s a great question. It’s also, unfortunately, impossible to answer.

When the game dropped on January 26, after getting memed into the ground following its reveal at The 2025 Game Awards, Highguard managed to earn itself a rather nasty Mostly Negative score on Steam, with only 26% of its reviewers rating the game positively.

It didn’t take a genius to figure out that a lot of the reviews on Steam weren’t written in earnest. People just thought it would be funny to make jokes about it being “Concord 2,” and you can tell as much from all the 0.1 hour playtime negative reviews on the Highguard page.

However, that doesn’t mean that the game doesn’t have issues. Optimisation on PC is the big one, and that’s where most of the genuine negative reviews took issue with the game.

Well,

the latest patch for the game, which dropped last night, seems to have fixed some of the performance-related issues players were running into.

More importantly, though, it also introduced a new mode: 5v5 raids. Turns out that this was enough for most people, because the reviews for Highguard on Steam are now up to Mixed, with 40% of the reviews being positive.

Here’s what some of the new reviews have to say about the latest patch.

“game was a wasteland with the 3v3 mode. 5v5 is absolutely a better pace and actually brings purpose to the farming and looting side of the game,” commented Steam user thyAuctive.

“w devs for not blaming the community and actually listening. def worth at least trying and forming your own opinion.”

“The bones of a fun game is there. Just waiting for a massive performance update right now. 5v5 is fun and I saw my performance improve a little bit with the recent patch,” writes Steam user Cλscade.

Honestly, I’ve kind of felt bad for the Highguard devs throughout this entire debacle. They suddenly became the internet’s punching bag because… I guess people didn’t like that their trailer was overhyped at The Game Awards?

I just hope they can keep introducing updates that slowly bump that score higher, because I’m kind of rooting for them now. At the very least, Wildlight Entertainment seems to be listening to their players (which is more than you can say for most publishers these days).