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WARDOGS 100 players. Three teams. One zone.

Bulkhead's 100-player shooter is playable for three days in its first Closed Alpha, and access is invite-only. This hub tracks what is actually confirmed — and labels everything that is not.

Closed Alpha starts in

01 Days
10 Hrs
16 Min
04 Sec

7–9 August 2026 · Steam only · Invite only
Bulkhead has not published a start time, so this counts to 00:00 UTC on 7 August.

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What is actually confirmed

Straight from Bulkhead, Team17 and the Steam page. Every card links to where the claim came from.

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Players per match Confirmed

Up to 100

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Teams Confirmed

3

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Map size Confirmed

256 km²

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Control Zone Confirmed

2 × 2 km, randomised each match

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Cash per life Confirmed

$10,000

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Release Confirmed

2026 — Steam Early Access

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7–9 August

Alpha access

How Bulkhead is handing out invites, what the FirstLook survey did, and what to do if yours has not arrived.

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Mechanics

How WARDOGS works

Three teams, a randomised Control Zone, and a cash economy that resets every life. The confirmed rules, in plain terms.

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Hardware

Can your PC run it

The published minimum and recommended specs, plus a quick check against the parts you actually have.

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Why every fact here carries a label

WARDOGS has not shipped. A lot of what circulates about it is a press paraphrase of a paraphrase, and some of it is simply wrong. Rather than flatten all of that into confident prose, every claim on this site is tagged with how well it is sourced.

Confirmed
Stated by Bulkhead, Team17, or the official Steam page.
Reported
Published by credible games press, not yet on an official page.
Unconfirmed
Community claim or not yet announced. Treat as speculation.

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