A weirdly enjoyable side effect of a massive game launch is that it shakes up the most-wishlisted games on Steam. Subnautica 2 has been perched (haha, fish pun) atop the most-wishlisted games on Steam for ages, probably since Hollow Knight: Silksong was released in September 2025.
But as of last week, Subnautica 2 is out! There must be a freshly crowned most-anticipated PC game on Steam! A new king of the hill!
And there is—but that new king shouldn’t even qualify for the most-wishlisted games list in the first place. Because it’s friggin’ Deadlock.
I know Valve likes to pretend its third-person MOBA hero shooter hybrid isn’t out yet, but, like… it is. Deadlock has been out for almost two years already. It’s updated regularly, including with new characters. It has a peak concurrent playercount of 171,490, and on average more than 50,000 people are playing it at any given time. Millions of people, probably, have already played it at some point.
That qualifies as “out,” and when games are out, they drop off the most-wishlisted list, just like Subnautica 2 did when it launched into early access last week. But at the top of the list right now: friggin’ Deadlock! It’s Schrödinger’s game: it’s never been released and yet it’s one of the most-played games on Steam.
So yeah, real talk, Valve: your weird Team Fortress-ass MOBA is out and you can’t keep pretending it isn’t. Deadlock isn’t “unreleased” or “coming soon” or “to be announced”: it’s flippin’ out, in early access—you know, the term you made astoundingly popular with Steam?
Hell, Deadlock is even in my Steam library despite the fact that I don’t like MOBAs and don’t have friends. I have no idea who even invited me, but someone did. I’ve played it. Not much, but I’ve played it. In 2024, on the same day it should have dropped off Steam’s top wishlists page.
Anyway. This is a long-winded way of saying what I actually wanted to say, which is that since Subnautica 2 has launched, the new most wishlisted game on Steam—the real one, I mean—is Light No Fire. Congratulations to Hello Games! Feels like the perfect game to top the list: it looks great, it’s got lots of followers, and most importantly, it hasn’t been released yet.
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