Now that Subnautica 2 is out, the most wishlisted game on Steam is… a game that's been out for almost 2 years?

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 ...