We played Valve’s secret new shooter, Deadlock

Blasting away with finger guns in Deadlock’s training level. | Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The Verge

It’s been nearly five years since Valve announced a truly new game — and counting. Valve has still not announced Deadlock, its new hero shooter that takes cues from Overwatch, Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, and more. But that hasn’t stopped nearly 20,000 people from trying the game, including me.

And I’m not under NDA. I have signed no contracts and made no verbal agreements; I haven’t even clicked through a EULA.

Screenshot by Sean Hollister / The Verge

This message does pop up when I launch Deadlock, but I didn’t click “OK”; instead, I hit the Escape key and watched it disappear.

Earlier today, I received a no-strings-attached invite to play Deadlock on Steam. Steam claims the game is made by Valve. It displays…

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