{"id":1583655,"date":"2026-05-19T22:52:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eKmcTgzFgurwh9HM4swekd"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:52:01","slug":"now-that-subnautica-2-is-out-the-most-wishlisted-game-on-steam-is-a-game-thats-been-out-for-almost-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/now-that-subnautica-2-is-out-the-most-wishlisted-game-on-steam-is-a-game-thats-been-out-for-almost-2-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Now that Subnautica 2 is out, the most wishlisted game on Steam is\u2026 a game that’s been out for almost 2 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A weirdly enjoyable side effect of a massive game launch is that it shakes up the most-wishlisted games on Steam<\/a>. Subnautica 2 has been perched (haha, fish pun) atop the most-wishlisted games on Steam<\/a> for ages, probably since Hollow Knight: Silksong was released in September 2025. <\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

And there is\u2014but that new king shouldn’t even qualify for the most-wishlisted games list in the first place. Because it’s friggin’ Deadlock.<\/p>\n

I know Valve likes to pretend its third-person MOBA hero shooter hybrid isn’t out yet, but, like\u2026 it is<\/em>. Deadlock<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n

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 Schr\u00f6dinger’s game: it’s never been released and yet it’s one of the most-played games on Steam.<\/p>\n

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