Valve is a company that is notoriously quiet about its future projects yet tends to send out proverbial beacons whenever people suspect it is working on something. As such, a recent discovery of new projects on Valve’s Steam page has resulted in quite a bit of speculation.
Reddit user Relevant_Basis5444 caught changes to Valve’s Steam page, hinting that Deadlock might not be the only upcoming title the company is working on. In a post on Reddit, Relevant_Basis5444 caught the fact that Valve’s Steam Page lists two titles as upcoming releases, despite Deadlock being the only one visible.
While one could chalk this up to a simple display error on the Steam page, it could also hint that Valve has yet another title that it is gearing up to release.
Considering the company is Valve, quite a bit of speculation revolves around the possibility of a new Half-Life game in development. A sequel to Half-Life 2: Episode 2 has been one of the largest subjects of conspiracy when it comes to Valve making new titles, and the fact that the company has largely focused on multiplayer games since then has done little to quell speculation.
For context, the last major single-player title released by Valve was the VR-exclusive Half-Life: Alyx. Since then, the company has been working on several projects, including ongoing support for Dota 2, Counter-Strike 2, and more recently, the alpha test release of shooter MOBA hybrid Deadlock.
Half-Life: Alyx itself, while being a prequel to Half-Life 2, also ended up fuelling quite a bit of speculation because its ending has major implications for the entire Half-Life setting, and especially the ending that was originally set up by Half-Life 2: Episode 2.
While Valve itself has been characteristically quiet, rumours from a few years ago indicated that the company wasn’t focusing on a Half-Life sequel and instead was putting all of its efforts at the time behind the Steam Deck. Reports from 2020 also revealed a few cancelled projects from Valve, including Half-Life 3 and even Left 4 Dead 3.
More recently, Valve has been constantly working and iterating on its next competitive multiplayer title Deadlock. A combination of hero shooters and MOBAs, Deadlock pits two teams together, each tasked with taking out the other’s base. While the game is still early in development, it has been getting constant patches and updates for balance tuning.
