What's going on? Valve's unannounced shooter Deadlock was played by 17,000 people over the weekend

An amazing situation is developing around Valve's team-based shooter Deadlock.

Since the beginning of 2024 in the network appeared such a huge amount of materials, videos, screenshots, descriptions and detailed opinions about Deadlock that no one doubts the existence and the imminent release of the game, but Valve keeps complete silence and does not comment on any information.

It has long been clear that the developers give access to Deadlock to their friends and family to test the shooter, but last weekend their number surprised.

Here's What We Know

According to SteamDB service at the time of writing there are 14.5 thousand players in Deadlock, and on Sunday their number almost reached 17 thousand.

The graph shows that the online shooter has grown dramatically in a few days, which may mean that several thousand people got access to the game at the same time.

Of course, Valve is an extremely secretive and non-public company, but even for it such silence looks surprising.

Perhaps in the near future the developer will still officially at least announce the game.

Recall. according to bloggers who have familiarised themselves with the game, it is similar to Valorant, Overwatch, Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 at the same time.

Source: SteamDB