New game from Valve: "Deadlock" is only available unofficially so far
Thousands are playing the shooter "Deadlock", even though it hasn't been announced or has a Steam page. Valve has so far remained silent about its new project.
Scene from the Valve shooter "Deadlock"
(Image: Youtube-Kanal "Deadlock and Me")
Valve has developed a new online shooter: "Deadlock" is a kind of mixture of "Overwatch" and "Team Fortress", as gameplay scenes published by users show. The curious thing is that Valve has neither announced "Deadlock" nor created a Steam page. Instead, players can apparently play via invitation links that they exchange with each other.
The fact that "Deadlock" exists is no longer a big secret. Gameplay scenes have been circulating the internet for months. Now more and more people seem to be able to play the shooter. This is shown by statistics from the unofficial Steam database SteamDB. According to this, "Deadlock" was played by over 18,000 players at peak times.
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Clearly developed by Valve
The first representatives of the gaming press have now also been able to play "Deadlock" via an invitation link, including the US technology magazine The Verge. Screenshots from The Verge show that when you start the game, you are first greeted with a reference to the early development stage of "Deadlock". Many of the graphic assets are placeholders. "Please don't share anything about the game with anyone," Valve writes - whether this is meant as a joke or simply naive is unclear.
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Early players do not have to sign an NDA. There is also the suspicion that the early launch of the shooter, which is reminiscent of guerrilla marketing, is intended to attract public attention. We don't know for sure: Valve remains stubbornly silent about "Deadlock". There is not even confirmation that the game exists at all.
However, there is no doubt that the game is from Valve: anyone who has received the invitation link will see the game in their library as a Valve development. The Verge also writes that the signature of the executable and legal notices in the game files refer to Valve - not to mention the Valve logo that can be seen when the game is launched.
According to The Verge, players who have access to "Deadlock" can invite any number of Steam friends. It is therefore only a matter of time before the player numbers for "Deadlock" continue to skyrocket. Perhaps the game will also be announced at some point.
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