https://steamdb.info/app/1422450/charts/

Valve keeping up with the trend of “worst kept secrets”. You need an invite to join the alpha but since everyone who owns it can refer their friends, it spread very quickly.

I’ve been playing it the past few days and it’s honestly very fun. Still a bit rough around the edges (especially in terms of balance) since it’s in early access, but it has serious potential to be dota 2 levels of popular.

For the unaware, Deadlock is a 3rd person shooter MOBA. It feels like a mix of Dota and Overwatch/Team Fortress. Nobody is allowed to share footage or screenshots, but obviously with so many playing there’s a ton of leaks out there.

    • SuperIce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      It literally has the second most concurrent players of any game on Steam at the moment and still has over half of the concurrent player numbers compared to its peak 8 years ago.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        Yo be fair a large and I do mean VERY large chunk of those players are in the Chinese custom games. It’s not abnormal for like a third or more of the player base of dota 2 at any given time to be playing the custom Chinese games.

        Dota 2 is as much a games platform as it is a game it self. Much like warcraft 3 was, or roblox or fortnite is now.

        There’s been instances where a new update for some of the more popular Chinese custom games can spike the number of people playing. Them to half the entire player base.

        It’s very very fair to say dota 2 isn’t that popular. Cause the game itself isn’t… It’s custom game modes and gatchas are.

        Hell there’s one custom game that’s literally a mobile gatcha game that i saw pulling over 60k players by itself.

      • djsaskdja@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Are there certain markets where it’s significantly more popular? I’ve never met anyone in the US that plays it.