Highguard, the new FPS from former Apex Legends and Titanfall devs, hits Steam after weeks of teasing silence

We did get that prank fanart call, though

Created by erstwhile developers of Apex Legends and Titanfall, Highguard was the last crippled announced during December 2025’s Keighley Awards. It’s a free-to-play, guns & sorcery, PvP raid shooter successful which magic cowboys successful capes vie for power of an uncharted continent. It’s got temples, airships, rideable panthers, fireballs, frost giants, and enchanted siege engines connected caterpillar tracks. It’s besides retired present connected Steam. That was quick.

Highguard has kindled a batch of curiosity by having astir zero selling - a pleasant reprieve from the accustomed drip-feed of pre-order bait that has provoked acute withdrawal symptoms among quality writers addled by years of quality spotlight trailers. Geoff Fest trailer aside, the crippled has cruised on connected the spot of the pursuing scanty Steam blurb: “From the creators of Apex Legends and Titanfall, comes Highguard: a PvP raid shooter wherever players volition ride, fight, and raid arsenic Wardens, arcane gunslingers sent to combat for power of a mythical continent. Battle rival Warden crews for possession of the Shieldbreaker, past interruption into and destruct the force basal to unafraid territory successful this all-new breed of shooter.”

I’m not peculiarly enticed by that elevator pitch, but I bash similar maine a mounting that can’t determine whether it's Call Of Duty oregon God Of War. I besides o.k. of the developer’s perchance calculated soundlessness pursuing the announcement, due to the fact that it has truly annoyed a batch of radical and I americium a profoundly pathetic quality being. Pranksters person sought to capable the breach: a fake Bluesky telephone for instrumentality creation past week attracted a fewer responses of the “I’m John Highguard” variety.

James included Highguard connected his idiosyncratic database of astir anticipated PC games of 2026, contempt observing of the aesthetic that “you could suffer way of it successful a vessel of porridge”. I’m a spot warmer connected the visuals than James, but I tin good ideate Highguard vanishing without trace. Still, I americium besides 1 of the galore who didn’t spot Helldivers 2 becoming much fashionable than bread. Perhaps we’ll look backmost connected Highguard’s pre-launch play arsenic a palmy illustration of ever leaving ‘em wanting more?