Perhaps Highguard was destined for hate after its surprise reveal at The Game Awards a few months ago, or perhaps the hate is justified, because the game is getting slammed right now for being poorly optimized on PC. The Steam reviews are currently at Overwhelmingly Negative, with a shocking one out of five-star rating on Steam.
Many of the negative reviews note that the game is poorly optimized, even on powerful rigs. Even those running 40 and 50-series cards have experienced issues with frame rates and stability. From personal experience on a 4090, the game struggles to hit over 100 FPS, and even when I've changed some settings it doesn't seem to make a massive difference to performance.
Highguard is finally out, and despite the game receiving little marketing, early press previews looked promising. It spiked up to 90,000 players on Steam and, at one point, had a viewership of over 300,000 on Twitch. However, the game is now sitting at an Overwhemingly Negative score on Steam with over 1,000 negative reviews.
The vast majority of the reviews state that performance is the main issue. I'm reading through them and all I can see is people stating that...
