HHighguard Cheats — The Game Shut Down: What Happened & Where to Play Next

Highguard is gone. The studio behind it permanently took the servers offline, the game was delisted, and it can no longer be played, bought, or queued into on any platform. That means Highguard cheats are dead too — there is no live server to connect to and nothing left to inject into, so any aimbot, ESP, or wallhack tool you find for it is selling you access to a game that does not exist. This page explains exactly what happened to Highguard, whether it really had a cheating problem, and points you to live games where cheats still work.

What Happened to Highguard

Highguard launched free-to-play on Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S as a 3v3 PvP raid shooter and looked, for a moment, like a hit. It peaked at roughly 97,000 concurrent players on Steam — nearly six figures out of the gate. Then the floor dropped out. The game lost around 90% of its player base inside the first week, slid into "Mixed" reviews amid review-bombing, and within a couple of months it struggled to hold even a few hundred peak players.

A single final patch went out — adding a new Warden, a weapon, account-level progression, and skill trees — and then the servers went dark for good. From launch to lights-out, Highguard lasted about six weeks — roughly 45 days — a short life even by the standards of live-service flops.

Can You Still Use Highguard Hacks or Cheats?

No. Highguard hacks stopped working the moment the servers went offline, and nothing is going to bring them back. A cheat needs a live match to do anything — aimbot needs enemies to lock onto, ESP and wallhack need a server feeding it player positions. With the servers gone, there are no lobbies, no opponents, and no game state to read or manipulate. Easy Anti-Cheat is a non-issue now for the simplest reason possible: there is nothing left to protect.

So if you came here looking for a working Highguard aimbot or ESP, the honest answer is that it does not exist anymore and never will. Anyone still selling "Highguard cheats" is selling a key to a locked, empty building. Save your money — and if you want to actually use cheats, point that budget at a game that is still online.

Why Highguard's Anti-Cheat Couldn't Save It

Here is the bitter irony of Highguard. To play a free game, you had to clear one of the highest security bars in the entire shooter market. Highguard required Secure Boot, Easy Anti-Cheat, and TPM 2.0 just to run — meaning you had to flip BIOS/UEFI settings and hand a kernel-level driver ring-0 access to the deepest part of your PC, the kind of bar you normally see on the biggest paid shooters, not a free-to-play title. That armor came at a price: the anti-cheat build was never enabled for Linux, so Steam Deck and Linux players were locked out with a "no anti-cheat module" error, and older PCs without a TPM or Secure Boot couldn't run it at all. The driver didn't even remove itself on uninstall; players had to delete Easy Anti-Cheat by hand.

And after all of that? Players reported rampant cheating anyway. Steam threads filled with reports of aimbotters dropping people across the map and suspected wallhackers who always knew where everyone was hiding. One player summed it up with a sarcastic shrug: "Game has Secure Boot and TPM 2.0, cheating impossible, stop trolling." The most invasive anti-cheat on the market shut out legitimate players, failed to stop the cheaters, and the game died in weeks anyway.

Live Games Like Highguard — Where Cheats Still Work

If Highguard was your thing — squad-based objective fights, distinct hero kits, a loot-and-extract rhythm — these games scratch the same itch and, unlike Highguard, they are still online with cheats that actually function. Each link below is a live, supported title:

• The Finals — objective fights in destructible arenas, the closest gameplay cousin to Highguard's contested-objective loop.
• Apex Legends — Highguard was built by veterans of the Apex Legends team, and its gunfeel came straight from the same playbook.
• Marvel Rivals — a hero shooter with deep, distinct kits if the Warden hero-picking was the draw.
• Arena Breakout: Infinite — squad-based loot-and-extract raids with Highguard's gear-up-or-lose-it heartbeat.
• Delta Force — large-scale objective warfare plus squad extraction, the closest match for Highguard's whole package.

Highguard FAQ

Why did Highguard shut down?

It couldn't hold onto players. The game peaked near 97,000 on Steam at launch and then lost about 90% of that base within a week. The developer said it had "not been able to build a sustainable player base to support the game long term," and after most of the team was laid off, keeping the servers running was no longer viable.

Is Highguard coming back?

There is no sign of it. The servers were taken offline permanently, the studio was gutted by layoffs, and there has been no announcement of a relaunch or offline mode. Treat it as gone for good.

Can I get a refund?

Some players did. Highguard was free-to-play, so refunds applied only to real-money in-game purchases. PlayStation issued refunds for in-game purchases tied to the shutdown, while on Steam players generally had to submit a refund request manually, with some reporting success. The Xbox situation was less clear.

Were there really cheaters?

Yes — and that was the whole punchline. Despite kernel-level anti-cheat, mandatory Secure Boot, and TPM 2.0, players actively reported aimbotters and suspected wallhackers in lobbies during the launch window. The fortress-grade security didn't keep them out.

Highguard's story is a short, honest cautionary tale: the heaviest anti-cheat on the market couldn't stop the cheaters or save the game. If you still want the squad-based, objective-driven shooter loop — with cheats that work because the servers are actually online — start with The Finals or Delta Force, the two closest matches to what Highguard was trying to be.