Deadlock's numbers have never really dipped, but they have most definitely spiked a few times these past few days thanks to the rollout of its City Never Sleeps update. The update will add six new characters to the game over the coming weeks, and the latest addition led to Valve’s popular MOBA setting a new concurrent player count record.
According to SteamDB, 236,730 people were all playing Deadlock at the same time at 2 pm PST on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. That is the exact time that Baba was added to the game. A vicious pigeon lady who is not to be trifled with, and the second of the six announced heroes coming via the new update.
Baba’s arrival means the record Deadlock set just four days prior, when the City Never Sleeps update went live, didn’t last long before it got broken again. 228,000 people were playing when the first new character, The Rat King, joined the game on Friday, breaking the previous, longer-standing concurrent player count record by more than 50,000.
It’s somewhat ironic that Baba has managed to outdo The Rat King when it comes to player count due to the way Valve determines the order...
