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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.

GUARDS! is a online co-op, co-op and first-person game developed by WYLDERZONE and Lowkey GameDev and published by WYLDERZONE.
Released on March 01st 2024 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil and Ukrainian.

It has received 461 reviews of which 326 were positive and 135 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 7.39€ on Steam with a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified GUARDS! into these genres:

Online Co-Op Co-op First-Person Fantasy PvE Action Dungeon Crawler Hack and Slash Medieval Difficult Third Person Exploration Procedural Generation Combat Time Management Physics Adventure Atmospheric Crime Action-Adventure

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • 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

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April 2025
People claiming this game is dead are wrong. The game is super fun and playable as it is! This isn't a crazy expensive game, and not all games need to forever be in development. The reason people are upset is because they enjoyed the game and just wanted more. So do I! This game is HILARIOUS to play with friends.
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March 2025
GUARDS feels better as a friend party game full of strategy that quickly melts into instinctive chaos for one reason or another. Older versions of the game were rough in more ways than one, with originally having timers on all missions, no easy way to keep items, and reinforcements appearing after a mission ends, forcing players to run like a bat out of Hell to the starting point or risk losing at the tail end of the mission. The Friendly fire adds to the chaos (if enabled), making your teammates more of a threat than the actual perps. The games can end quickly in victory or defeat depending on what happens, like a bomb thrower behind a corner or two hammer wielders, or someone bringing a tripwire crossbow. At the end of the day, on the year anniversary of this game, having 100% the game at the time of writing this, I rate this game a 7/10: + Chaotic Fun + Beans + Nearly anything being a weapon + Unorthodox methods of winning fights + Okay Character Customization + Timers on most missions removed - Difficulty Spikes - Poor Default Lighting - Unfair enemies - Hostage Missions
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Dec. 2024
A little challenging but incredibly fun. There's a good bit of jank in this game, but it adds to its charm.
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Aug. 2024
An interesting game developed by a small team and the game play is fast, zaney and gets derpy chaotic from there I've played a decent a good chunk solo (you can tell it's meant for group play and it's cheap in price deff worth a gift to friends so you can play together) but when playing with friends it was great we'd end up sabotaging each other for laughs, great amount of customization to personalize your guard to fit your preferences. Haven't taken down a king pin yet because my group couldn't get passed some missions because we were enjoying messing around to much but when we played serious we arrested, cited, and "subdued" all of the criminals for the sake of JUSTICE!
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June 2024
STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM This is 100% Oblivion guard simulator, the game. It is honestly a great value for the full asking price of $15 USD, and I'm actually surprised this game isn't more popular given that. You have a great, physics based combat system that just bleeds slapstick comedy and tactical objectives/mechanics that are weirdly reminiscent of SWAT 4 (all hail the GOAT) or Ready or Not. Do you bring a sword to quickly cut through your foes? Or do you bring a nonlethal club that allows you to arrest people (and take their gold) but at greater personal risk? They each have their place depending on the mission and what your teammates are bringing. I do have my issues with it, of course. For one, I wouldn't play it singleplayer, but being a coop game I'm not sure this is a strike against it. I think some weapons like the frying pan are way too good (but this is also hilarious) and I feel the game would really benefit from having more open maps to allow players more freedom in how they tackle objectives, but these are relatively minor complaints. It's good, it's fun, and it's cheap. If you have any interest, I'd highly recommend giving it a go.
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Frequently Asked Questions

GUARDS! is currently priced at 7.39€ on Steam.

GUARDS! is currently available at a 50% discount. You can purchase it for 7.39€ on Steam.

GUARDS! received 326 positive votes out of a total of 461 achieving a rating of 6.74.
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GUARDS! was developed by WYLDERZONE and Lowkey GameDev and published by WYLDERZONE.

GUARDS! is playable and fully supported on Windows.

GUARDS! is not playable on MacOS.

GUARDS! is not playable on Linux.

GUARDS! is a multi-player game.

GUARDS! includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

There is a DLC available for GUARDS!. Explore additional content available for GUARDS! on Steam.

GUARDS! does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

GUARDS! does not support Steam Remote Play.

GUARDS! is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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GUARDS!
-50% 14.79€ 7.39€
6.7
326
135
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
3
Developer
WYLDERZONE, Lowkey GameDev
Publisher
WYLDERZONE
Release 01 Mar 2024
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