Valve has finally officially announced Deadlock, their long-rumored hero shooter in development and quietly playtested for months now.

The new hero shooter was quietly confirmed via its new Steam store page, which confirms Deadlock is in “early development stages” and has “lots of temporary art and experimental gameplay.”

That’s all we have to go on for now, unfortunately, as the selected few that have had playtest access to Deadlock are naturally limited by the NDA required to play the game’s early builds. Some concept art is on the page, seen below:

However, in the past months the game – unannounced at that point but clearly running network tests – had amassed over 18,000 concurrent players by this month. Its playerbase went even higher later in the month, topping 44,000 players, so Valve is clearly ramping things up for Deadlock.

Further public details on the game are scant but very limited previews confirmed Deadlock is a 6-on-6 third-person hero shooter, with w MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) twist, set on four lanes with respawning waves of enemies.

Here’s the first teaser trailer for Deadlock, via its new Steam page: