Highguard’s official website was taken offline on Feb. 17, 2026 and by Feb. 18 still showed the message “This site is currently unavailable,” while the game itself remained playable. Wildlight Entertainment confirmed widespread layoffs earlier in February, and a report about those cuts is available here. A separate report from GameFile named Tencent as one of the investors behind the first-person shooter. The identity of that investor had not been public previously.
Steam concurrent player figures referenced by third-party trackers show a low peak in recent days, a metric visible on SteamDB charts. Wildlight has said it will continue working on Highguard with the remaining team. Earlier in the year the developer issued a title update that added input and graphics options and listed stability improvements.
There is no official timetable for when the Highguard site will return and no public statement from Wildlight about the current outage at the time of publication. If you have a specific detail to share about Highguard’s downtime or the Wildlight layoffs, leave a comment and follow for updates on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram.
