A new Valve game is coming soon. Thousands of players are Deadlockis a team-based shooter with multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) elements, and while Valve has yet to officially announce it, screenshots, gameplay, and even gametimes have already surfaced online.
As of this writing, Valve has not said anything about whether or not the game belongs to them, and no effort appears to be being made to remove it. Deadlock More than 15,000 people were playing the game on Steam on Tuesday, according to SteamDB, and it hit an all-time high of 18,254 players on Monday.
It is unclear how long this will last Deadlock It’s available to play now, but one user on the game’s subreddit claims to have been playing it for months, and screenshots and gameplay footage have been circulating on platforms like X and YouTube for days.
Though Valve has remained silent (the company did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment), the mystery may be a boon for the game. half life, Portaland Team Fortress 2Valve is notoriously secretive, which often leads to heavy hype around its titles, and players have been eagerly awaiting a sequel. Half-Life 2 For almost 20 years there has been little to no information from the company.
According to The Verge, which released a hands-on preview, DeadlockIt reminds me of Blizzard’s 6v6 shooter. Overwatch“Your team of heroes will try to wear down the enemy team and push them back, taking control of the map,” Sean Hollister wrote in the preview. “But you’ll also be leading an army of NPC soldiers in four different lanes to destroy the enemy team’s stationary defenses. Dota 2 Or any other MOBA game.”
Hollister was subsequently banned from the game, presumably for his article, which referenced a launch popup that warned players that the game was still in “early development” and asked them “not to disclose information about the game to others” (Hollister said he could have opted out by pressing Esc).
Online, some gamers have been upset by The Verge’s reporting on the title, which currently requires an invite to play, but interest in the title appears to be growing. that That’s what happens in the end.
When and Deadlock Will it be released more widely? That remains a mystery.
