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Left 4 Dead 3 isn't happening, says developer

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Published 15:56 5 Jul 2023 GMT+1

Left 4 Dead 3 isn't happening, says developer

Left 4 Dead 3 isn’t in development, and Valve wants you to stop asking them about it.

Sam Cawley

Sam Cawley

Left 4 Dead 3 isn’t in development, and Valve wants you to stop asking them about it.

Ever since Left 4 Dead 2 dropped in 2009, the series has quite literally been left for dead, and as a final nail in the coffin, Valve have said there are no plans for a third game and wish players would stop asking them for one. In some respects, the Left 4 Dead series lives on through its spiritual successor Back 4 Blood which was released in 2021, and was developed by the same team behind Valve’s zombie-shooter. While it sold well, its popularity sharply declined along with its player numbers, many of which felt it missed the mark in many ways and couldn’t live up to its predecessors.

Many fans never gave up hope for Left 4 Dead 3 though, and have been hounding Valve for years for confirmation on the game’s development.

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Unfortunately though, a former Valve employee has burst everyone’s bubble, saying Left 4 Dead was always intended to be a testbed for the source engine, and that Left 4 Dead 3 isn’t on the cards. This was confirmed in an interview for The VŌC Podcast with former Valve writer Chet Faliszek, who said the following: "As we were working on Source 2, we often used Left 4 Dead as the testbed … So you may see things that came out of there that were really more the testbed than, 'Hey, we're making a new Left 4 Dead.'”

Faliszek went on to say, "With everything at Valve, there's a bunch of stuff happening in the background, things are being tried and whatnot … But Left 4 Dead is a good base to try things on because it's a multiplayer game. So you're gonna exercise that muscle, it’s co-op, you're working together."

Essentially, the Left 4 Dead series was a way for Valve to test new ideas that also doubled as a fun arcade-shooter to play with friends. That being said, while there are reportedly no plans for a third Left 4 Dead game, it doesn’t mean one won’t stumble its way out of Valve in the distant future, which you’d think would be a no-brainer given the immense popularity of the series.

Featured Image Credit: Valve

Topics: Left 4 Dead, Valve, PC, Steam, Xbox, PlayStation

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