Valve releases City Never Sleeps update for Deadlock

Valve has released ‘City Never Sleeps’, a major content update for its developing title, Deadlock. The update introduces six new heroes: Rat King, Deadman Danny, Baba, Nurse Harrow, Violet, and Solomon. These characters will be unlocked over time via a new voting system located in the pregame lobby.

A significant portion of the update focuses on a complete overhaul of the game’s map, set in a supernatural version of New York known as the ‘Cursed Apple’. The redesign includes more detailed buildings, increased verticality, and new routes to facilitate movement via dashes, wall jumps, and ziplines. The update also adds four new districts, two new objectives, and a ‘Cursed Item Shop’ that can corrupt items with debuffs while increasing stats.

Despite the scale of the update, Deadlock remains in development and is currently invite-only, with no official release date announced.