After four months, hundreds of leaked gameplay videos, and everybody you know having played it, Valve finally admitted Deadlock exists | Gaming

Ever since the first leaks about Deadlock came out in May, Valve’s next game has been in a bit of a weird limbo: It has hundreds of gameplay videos in the wild, a public subreddit, and a peak player count of over 44,000 thanks to invites getting passed out like candy⁠—including to Steam tracking website, SteamDB. But the studio itself refused to acknowledge the game’s existence until today. Deadlock has a Steam store page, and we’re finally allowed to talk about it and share clips, as if that stopped anyone before.

The Deadlock store page is extremely bare bones⁠—you’re better off checking the game out on YouTube if you want any idea of what it’s about⁠—but it’s something. There’s a teaser video, some extremely low-resolution key art, and a ton of reminders that Deadlock is…