It’s incredible: after four months, many gameplay leaks and thousands of players, Gabe Newell’s company has finally confirmed that this is not a joke, but a real game…
We first heard about Deadock back in May, and since then it’s been spreading like wildfire across the Internet. With a bunch of gameplay videos, a public subreddit and over 44,000 concurrent players, Valve’s rather (and rather unsuccessfully…) secret game has become a huge success. It’s already on SteamDB, but Gabe and his team have refused to say a word about it. But that’s all over now: Deadlock has its own Steam page, and there’s no embargo anymore: you can talk about your experiences with the game and share your footage.
Deadlock’s Steam page is still pretty empty, but at least it exists. There’s a teaser video, some low-res concept art, and almost every corner is marked as a multiplayer title in early development, so there’s a lot of preliminary art and experimental gameplay. So Valve is swearing the stars out of the sky to make us believe that it’s really not in a “store-ready” state yet…
Deadlock developers allowed public conversations about the game. You can freely share and discuss gameplay footages from now on.
“Nothing else is changing with our state of development. We are remaining invite-only and continue to be in an early development stage with lots of… pic.twitter.com/QnNtGP9PVo
— Gabe Follower (@gabefollower) August 23, 2024
It cannot be wishlisted yet, which is not very often. Anyway, Valve fan Gabe Follower shared a picture on Twitter of the Deadlock Discord server, where a Valve employee (who goes by the name of Yoshi) wrote this: “We are lifting the rules on public conversations about Deadlock to allow things like streaming, community sites, and discussions. Nothing else is changing with our state of development. We will still be invite-only and will still be in an early stage of development with lots of temporary art and experimental gameplay”.
So Deadlock wants to have a kind of soft launch, i.e. they want to open the door to the public more and more, without openly saying that THIS is when Valve’s game will be available to everyone. This strategy is mostly used for mobile titles.
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