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WARDOGS price and editions

Two editions, one difference, and a commitment about everything that comes after the purchase that is worth more scrutiny than the price itself.

EditionUSDWhat is different
Standard39.99The game.
Supporter Edition+10.00Cosmetic content only, framed by the studio as a way to fund development rather than as a content pack.

Listed on WARDOGS Steam store page

The WARDOGS Supporter Edition graphic showing a helicopter camo, three rifle camos, a scoreboard tag, and helmet and grenade bobbleheads.
Everything the extra buys, as the studio drew it: a Littlebird helicopter in a yellow and black taxi camo, three rifles in faction camos, a supporter tag on the scoreboard, and helmet and grenade bobbleheads. Official graphic: BULKHEAD, from the Steam pre-order announcement.

A correction worth making

There are three app records associated with this game, and only two of them are things you can buy. Appid 4809960 is the Supporter Pack. Appid 4809930 is the playtest — a free distribution channel used during the closed test period, not something anyone buys. If you have seen a “third edition” listed somewhere, that is what it was.

The monetisation commitment

The studio stated its position on this in plain terms before launch: no battle pass, no pay-to-win, cosmetics earned by playing written in Steam announcement — TOP QUESTIONS. It went further in the pre-order announcement and said there would be no monetisation at all during Early Access with the single exception of the optional Supporter Edition stated in Steam announcement — Pre-Order Now.

That is a specific, checkable promise rather than a vague one, which makes it the most useful thing on this page. The in-game economy has its own currencies — a cash balance and gold bars spent in a cosmetics market — and both are earned by playing. How that works is on the cash page, and how it sits next to Battlefield 6’s coins, Battle Pass and Pro tier is on the Battlefield 6 comparison.

The price is set to rise during Early Access

Separately from the monetisation commitment above, BULKHEAD CEO Joe Brammer told GamesRadar+ in a Gamescom interview that the base price itself is on a schedule to go up as the game grows: “We have scaling pricing.” Around the time the game reaches version “0.5”, roughly 12 months out, the price is set to rise to $49.99, and by around 24 months it is set to reach $59.99. His reasoning: “If you don’t want to get in now, wait for there to be more content, more stuff, buy it later.” And: “You want to buy in cheap now? That’s fine too. But really, we just think it’s fair to scale the price as the game becomes bigger and bigger and bigger.” Said in GamesRadar+ — CEO Joe Brammer on Early Access pricing

Current appdetails still list $39.99. This is a stated plan, not a Steam-confirmed price change — treat the two future numbers as the studio’s intent until the store page itself moves.

Refunds

The studio has told players more than once to refund if the game is not for them: pre-order buyers whose beta did not meet expectations, and Linux buyers who expected Proton to work. Valve still decides every refund under its own conditions, and the studio’s encouragement adds no time to them. The Linux page has that second case, and the refund page covers where Steam’s two-hour limit still catches people out.