WARDOGS
You just lost a $7,000 kit and you are back at the vendor. Which gun is worth the money: a weapon tier list from 5 attributed sources, and the recorded stats and price behind every one of the 35 weapons.
WARDOGS launches on Steam Early Access on 10 September 2026. Everything here is a pre-launch read of the closed tests, and every source says it will re-rank from the live vendor.
Worth the money
Full tier list →The top two bands of a consensus built from 5 attributed sources, labelled with the builds they actually read (Pre-launch, Closed Beta 1 to Closed Beta 2). Hover a weapon on the full list to see who placed it where.
Every gun, by class
Weapons index →35 weapons recorded across the closed tests, in the vendor's own nine classes. Each page carries the recorded damage, rate of fire, range and price, and our shots-to-kill arithmetic where the numbers allow it.
Our guides
All articles →What Bulkhead has said, quoted and left fixed, and what the recorded numbers say, read live so they move when the vendor does.
EditorialPre-launchSep 6, 2026
Cost Per Life: Why the Best Gun in WARDOGS Is the One You Can Afford to Lose
Every other shooter asks which gun wins the fight. This one asks which gun you can lose twice and still play. Those are different questions with different answers.
Beta notesClosed Beta 2Sep 6, 2026
WARDOGS Closed Beta 2: What Bulkhead Changed, What It Did Not Say, and What Launch Week Looks Like
There are no patch notes. That is the first thing to know about Closed Beta 2, and it tells you what the test was for.
Common questions
What this page is, and what is deliberately missing while the game is still in closed tests.
What is this WARDOGS page for?
You have $10,000 and one life to spend it on. This is where to see which guns the people who have played the closed tests rate, what each one costs, and the recorded numbers behind that. A tier list built from 5 attributed sources rather than one opinion, and a page per weapon with its stats and price. Statistical data is based on external APIs and publicly available information. It may differ from official data.
Where do the stats come from? Bulkhead has not published any.
Correct, and that is why every figure is labelled community-recorded. Community-recorded from Closed Alpha and Closed Beta vendor screens, cross-checked across independent databases. Bulkhead publishes no official weapon figures, and Early Access can retune any of them. A number is only shown where the independent databases agree; where they disagree or nobody recorded it, the page says "Not recorded" instead of picking one.
Is this the Early Access meta?
Not until the sources re-rank against the live vendor. Every list here was published against the closed Alpha and Beta builds, the page says which, and the tier list carries that label rather than the date. Expect it to move in the first weeks after launch.