Steam just refreshed its wishlist rankings, and the list looks nothing like a typical hype chart. The game sitting at number one, Deadlock, still has no confirmed genre, no release date, and no public gameplay trailer. Yet it has pulled in over 5.5 million wishlist adds since its Steam page went live, according to independent tracking from Alinea Analytics.
| Rank | Game | Wishlist Adds Tracked | Release Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deadlock | ~411,000 | TBA steampowered |
| 2 | Light No Fire | ~235,000 | TBA |
| 3 | Fable | ~125,000 | Feb 2027 steamdb |
| 4 | Blight: Survival | ~154,000 | TBA |
| 5 | Kingmakers | ~100,000 | Soon |
| 6 | Total War: Warhammer 40,000 | Top 10 | TBA |
| 7 | Ark 2 | Top 10 | TBA |
| 8 | Witchbrook | Top 10 | 2026 window |
| 9 | ILL | Top 10 | TBA |
| 10 | Unrecord | ~136,000 | TBA |
That kind of pull with almost zero marketing tells you something about where PC gamers are putting their attention this year. Below is the full current top 10, what each game actually offers, and which ones are close to launching versus still stuck in “coming soon” limbo.
Deadlock is winning with almost no information
Valve’s own store page describes Deadlock only as “a multiplayer game in early development, with lots of temporary art and experimental gameplay”. Access right now is locked behind an invite from an existing playtester, so most of the 5.5 million people wishlisting it have never actually opened the game. SteamDB currently tracks it at roughly 411,000 recent wishlist adds, the highest of any title on the platform.
If you play multiplayer shooters and want in, your best bet is finding a friend already in the playtest. There is still no release window, so do not expect this one soon.
Fable jumped from 8th to 3rd after one trailer
Fable had been sitting quietly outside the top 5 for months. Then Playground Games showed a release date trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase in June, and the game jumped straight to number three with around 125,000 tracked wishlist adds. It now has a confirmed release date of February 23, 2027, and a listed price of 69.99 dollars.
This is the clearest example on the list of what a concrete date does to wishlist momentum. Games with vague “TBA” tags tend to plateau, while games with real dates spike hard.
Light No Fire is still coasting on a 2024 trailer
Hello Games’ open world survival project Light No Fire holds second place with about 235,000 tracked wishlist adds, and it is doing this almost entirely on the strength of a single announcement trailer from 2024. No second trailer, no release window, nothing new since. Players are clearly banking on the studio’s track record with No Man’s Sky rather than anything shown recently.
Blight: Survival and Kingmakers show how delays affect rank
Blight: Survival, a brutal medieval PvPVE horror game, sits at fourth with about 154,000 wishlist adds and still has no release window. Kingmakers, the time travel strategy title where you build a kingdom while somehow already knowing how to use a rifle, sits at fifth with around 100,000 adds. Kingmakers was originally supposed to hit early access in 2025 but got delayed while the developers kept tuning features, and it is now simply listed as “Soon”.
Neither game has fallen off the list despite the wait, which says a lot about how patient wishlisters are when the concept is strong enough.
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 and Ark 2 are the old guard
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 has held a top 10 spot practically since it was announced, helped recently by a closed beta reveal at the PC Gaming Show. Ark 2 is in a rougher spot. The first cinematic trailer came out in 2020, a second followed in 2021, and the originally promised 2023 release date has clearly come and gone. A statement shared through the Epic Games Store has pointed to a possible 2028 window instead.
If you are still holding onto that Ark 2 wishlist spot, you are in it for the long haul.
Witchbrook, ILL, and Unrecord round out the list
Witchbrook, the cozy magic school life sim from Chucklefish, is targeting a 2026 release window and remains a fixture in the top 10. ILL, a gory first person horror shooter, and Unrecord, a police body cam style single player FPS, both hold top 10 spots without confirmed release dates. Unrecord in particular has generated buzz for its realistic bodycam presentation style, even though there is still no window for when you will get to play it.
