Deadlock might not be the only upcoming release by Valve if the company’s Steam page isn’t just a simple error; it could even be Half-Life 3!

Valve, being a company that is notoriously quiet about its future projects, tends to send out proverbial beacons whenever people start to suspect that it is working on something, and a recent discovery of new projects on Valve’s Steam page has set up 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 2 titles as upcoming releases, despite Deadlock being the only one visible.

While this could be chalked up to a simple display error on the Steam page, it could also be a 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 being developed. 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 owing to the fact that 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 between 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.