Deadlock is an upcoming team-based multiplayer third-person shooter MOBA game developed and published by Valve.

[1] Later that month, Valve lifted rules on public conversation for playtesters[2] and published a Steam store page for Deadlock.

[6] Further details were reported in 2023, indicating that it would have been a team-based "third-person 'MOBA-lite'", in which players need to defeat a boss enemy at the opposing team's base.

[1] Players also have access to a private Discord server to discuss the game and forums to read change logs, report bugs and provide feedback to the developers.

[1] In August 2024, Valve lifted the rules on public conversation for playtesters[2] and published a Steam store page for Deadlock.

[14] Hollister noted that since he had not signed nor verbally consented to any legally binding non-disclosure agreement, he was free to write about it, despite being shown a dialog box telling him not to share any information about the game with others.

[15] Wired's Megan Farokhmanesh speculated that the secretive release strategy was a deliberate publicity stunt to tempt players to leak the game, building hype around it.