Steam’s wishlist leaderboard is a strange aquarium: every upcoming game swims around hoping someone taps the glass, and in 2026 the biggest fish is Subnautica 2. With Hollow Knight: Silksong finally out of the waiting room—after briefly making digital storefronts faint like overworked Victorian gentlemen—the top spot has opened up, and Unknown Worlds’ underwater survival sequel has slid into it with the smug grace of a hermit crab wearing a crown it found in a shipwreck.

For the uninitiated, Steam wishlists are the platform’s collective anticipation ledger. Players add upcoming games to their wishlists, and Steam ranks the most-wanted titles for everyone to see. It is not a sales chart, and it is not a review score; it is closer to a mood ring for the PC gaming crowd, except the mood is usually “please, please, please be good.” The ranking gives smaller games a chance to be discovered and gives big games a public scoreboard for bragging rights. In the late-2025 snapshot that inspired this dispatch, the scoreboard had a new name at the very top.

At the time of that snapshot, Subnautica 2 sat at No. 1, followed by Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock, the co-op looter-shooter Borderlands 4, the highly anticipated FPS Battlefield 6, Hello Games’ ambitious Light No Fire, the extraction shooter ARC Raiders, Arena Breakout: Infinite, Dying Light: The Beast, the roguelike deckbuilder Slay the Spire 2, and ARK 2. The full Top 10 looked like this:

Rank Game Quick Vibe Check

1 Subnautica 2 Alien ocean survival with friends

2 Deadlock Valve’s hero-shooter

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