The developers behind indie gem Firewatch once had another single-player first-person adventure in the works called In the Valley of Gods. That was, until Valve snapဣped 'em up and put the team to work on other projects. I'm stil♋l bummed out about it, though one former developer has stepped up to reveal a peep at what we could have got – and hey, might still get.

Over on , Valve's Matthew Wilde – who is also behind Counter-Strike 2's water shaders and – has shown off what water looks like in The Valley of Gods, and it's▨ beautiful. The six-second clip shows us walking behind our protagonist, surrounded by water, in a rather wee cave, with a shot of light in the distance.

remains up with a December 2029 release w🅷indow locked in, though I⛎ imagine that's more of a placeholder situation right now.

In the Valley of Gods was initially announced in 2🌊017, with a 2019 release set to follow. As you can imagine, that didn't quite happen. Developer Campo Santo was snapped up by Valve in 201🍸8, and by the time the release window came, the project was put on hold as other developers had been put on other projects like Half-Life: Alyx and Dota Underlords.

The official line remains that the game is on hold and not scrapped, though we've not heard much sin🅷ce. If it resurfaces, though, we know the water tech will be tꩲop-tier.

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