Valve is behind some of gaming's greatest, genre-defining hits, like Half-Life, Portal... and Ricochet.
Ricochet 2 confirmed?????
If you haven't heard of it, I don't blame you. Just imagine the infamous Xen levels, but in an arena shooter where you leap across the void and fire discs at each other. Released in 2000, it's easy to see why people were so disappointed. Valve followed up Half-Life with a middling platformer where you only had one weapon — thank god for Counter-Strike and Team Fortress.
I'd say that it at least became a cult classic in the over two decades since its release, but it only ever reached a concurrent player peak of 95, hardly ideal for a multiplayer game. And when I tried to interview the dregs of its near-non-existent playerbase for an undeserved retrospective, I couldn't find any active players, just a couple of lone wolves idling in the few servers left. But that's about to change.
For April Fool's Day, the Valve community is honoring this "forgotten" game with a dedicated event, #RicochetingTheBar. At 8pm BST/3pm EDT, fans will flock back en masse to Ricochet to boost its peak player count. This momentous...
