Deadlock, the one game Valve refuses to publically acknowledge, is currently going through extensive playtesting, which was recently opened to waves of new players. So many of them have been flocking to the game that it now has more players than its supposed main competitor, Smite.
According to SteamDB, Deadlock is hosting some 9,171 players at the time of writing (Aug. 10), while Smite‘s player count is a tad lower at about 7,360 concurrent players. Being a third-person MOBA, Deadlock is seeking to tackle the market dominated by Smite for years, as no other such game arose to prominence over the past decade or so.
