Highguard is better than you’d expect, given the Steam ratings. It launched to a barrage of bad reviews, averaging ‘extremely negative’ within minutes on Valve’s storefront, despite it being impossible for anyone to have played enough to come to a genuine conclusion in the seconds since it launched. This average rose only to ‘mostly negative’ the next day and has now settled at ‘mixed’ as players have had a chance to actually appraise the game. This farce of a Steam launch is no fault of developer Wildlight Entertainment, however. The blame lies with bad actors and Steam’s outdated review system.
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