Highguard did actually have some unique things that made it stand out like the raiding aspect.

The bigger problem is it was under baked. They released basically a demo after getting featured at the Game Awards instead of taking the time to finish building out the game.

The innovation of high guard is so profound that it'll spawn a whole genre of games. They'll copy everything, even the name, but they'll use a thesaurus like high to over and guard to watch, that sort of cheap knock-off style of game you know? But gamers are too savvy for that kind of chump move.