15 'Always Online' Games That You Can't Play Anymore

7. Highguard

Highguard Game
Wildlight

You can't help but feel sorry for the developers of Highguard, Wildlight Entertainment. They were handed the opportunity of a lifetime by closing out The Game Awards in 2025, reportedly without even paying for it. Getting to show off their new game to a massive audience because Geoff Keighley saw something special in the project. 

Unfortunately, the rest of the world didn't see what Geoff Keighley saw, and the fact that it was announced at the end of The Game Awards, which is usually kept for big surprise announcements, left a sour taste in many gamers' mouths. The internet was quick to jump on the "this is just Concord 2" bandwagon, which didn't help the hype machine for Highguard at all. 

When Highguard released on the 26th of January 2026, it received pretty middling reviews from critics and, while having an all-time peak of 97,000 concurrent players on Steam, faced a quick and steep drop-off in player counts. So much so that the game was shut down merely 45 days after its launch. Its developer, Wildlight Entertainment, has also seemingly closed its doors as a result, although no official announcement has come from anyone within the studio; their website has been taken offline, and all communications from the studio have gone silent. 

 
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