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Custom games
inside Deadlock.

Run Midtown's rooftops in Freestyle, or duel 1v1 and 2v2 on the lane circles in Cursed Arena. Pick a mode here and Deadlock opens straight into it.

See the modes

No invite needed · Windows and Linux

First blood in a Cursed Arena round on Yellow Lane, with the round score, the fallen Haze bot and the lane minimap on screen
Cursed ArenaRound 1 · Yellow Lane · first blood

Ready to play

4 live
A Freestyle player finishing the Yellow Rollout to Bridge route in 5.92 seconds, with a clean heavy melee cancel

Freestyle

Live

Open movement on Midtown, with Flow chains, routes, races, puzzles and chat games.

Players
Drop in any time, with whoever is on the server
Heroes
Any hero, even one another player has picked
Souls
50,000 to start, so you can build any kit
Shop
Works anywhere on the map
Browse routes

  • Flow

    Chains · multiplier · score

    Dashes, slides, wall jumps and ziplines build a chain. Mixing moves raises the multiplier, and stopping banks the score.

  • Route playlists

    Ghost · tracer · target time

    Run creators' routes beside their ghost, with a tracer showing the line ahead, and compare your time with theirs.

  • Puzzles

    /puzzle · one stamina bar

    Climbing puzzles where you get a single stamina bar, so every dash and jump on the way up has to count.

  • HORSE

    /horse · turns · letters

    Take turns setting a line for the others to copy beside your ghost. A miss earns a letter, and HORSE puts you out.

  • Drill and build

    ] save · [ return · /build

    Save where you stand and return to repeat one jump until it's clean. /build lets everyone shape a spot together.

  • Flow chain · example×3.4
    12,480best 48,210
    DASHSLIDEWALL JUMPZIPLINE
The Cursed Arena rules vote, Classic, Haze, Random or Ladder, before both players ready up

Cursed Arena

Live

Hero against hero on Midtown's early lane circles. Every hero starts with all four abilities and no items or upgrades, so each fight is your kit against theirs.

Players
1v1 or 2v2
Length
About 6 minutes a match
Format
Rounds, or one timed 3:00 fight
Lanes
YellowBlueGreen
About Cursed Arena

  • Cursed Arena

    Any hero · first to 3

    Bring the hero you play best for a straight duel. Two kills take a round, and three rounds win the match.

  • Haze Duel

    Haze only · most frags

    Everyone plays Haze with infinite ammo while the circle closes in. The most frags after three minutes wins.

  • Random Mirror

    Same hero · best of 3

    Each round draws one random hero for both sides, so nobody brings a main. Win two rounds to take the match.

  • Hero Ladder

    8 heroes · kill to climb

    Start on Wraith and climb through Haze, Infernus, Grey Talon, Vindicta, Bebop and Shiv. A kill as Abrams wins.

  1. /readyEveryone readies up
  2. /voteVote mode and length
  3. FightOn one of three lanes
  4. RotateNext round, next lane
  5. /againSame players again
An Aimtrack challenge on level 1: a Vindicta, a Grey Talon and a third bot strafe across the yard toward Wraith

Aimtrack

Live

Aim practice against bots that strafe, weave and fly across an open yard. Shoot the back wall to switch hero, change the bots or take a late game build.

Players
Solo, or share the yard with friends
Heroes
Any hero, with endless souls for any build
Modes
Free aim, Vindicta Snipe and Headshot Flicks
Challenge
A timed ladder for each hero, with bots that shoot back
About Aimtrack
The Aim Range hub, with Easy, Medium and Hard pads for the static scenarios and the benchmark list of every scenario

Aim Range

Live

An aim trainer inside Deadlock. Nineteen one-minute Wraith scenarios cover the skills an aim benchmark tests.

Players
Solo
Scenarios
Clicking, tracking, switching, long shots and aerials
Difficulty
Easy, Medium or Hard
Rank
Your scores and rank show on your profile
About Aim Range

In testing

Early builds

These modes play today but are still being finished, so a round may break or a rule may change. Tell us what goes wrong on Discord.

Team Battles

Team fights across six arenas. The first team to three wins.

TeamsSix arenas

Chaos Mode

Team fights with one shared twist that changes every round. The first team to three wins.

TeamsA new twist each round

How it works

  1. Sign in with SteamYour Steam account signs you in.
  2. Install the Hyperline appA tray app for Windows or Linux.
  3. Press PlayPick a mode. Deadlock starts it.

Read the full setup guide

For creators

Routes

Record a route, build a playlist

Run a line in Freestyle and publish it. Your run becomes the ghost other players race, and your page lists your routes and playlists.

  • Your reference time is saved with the run
  • Players upvote the playlists they like
Game modes Coming soon

Build your own game mode

Write a mode in TypeScript and deploy it. Hyperline handles installs, lobbies and servers, and your name goes on the mode card.

  • Built on Modlock, which is open source
  • Ask on Discord to try it early

Source on GitHub

Modlock, our Hammer tooling and the custom tools behind Hyperline.

paralin/modlock paralin/modlock-sdk

Questions

Will it touch my mods or settings?

No. Hyperline keeps your existing mods as they are. It downloads content for Hyperline modes and helps you manage your mod collection.

My antivirus flagged Hyperline. Is it safe?

Yes. Hyperline is signed, but some antivirus programs, such as Avast, AVG, Norton and Windows Defender, flag new programs that work with a game. Restore Hyperline from the quarantine, add C:\Program Files\Hyperline and %APPDATA%\Hyperline as exceptions, then open Hyperline again.

What do I need?

Deadlock on Steam and a Windows or Linux PC.

Do I need an invite?

No. Sign in with Steam and you can play straight away.

What does "in testing" mean?

The mode plays today but is unfinished. A round might break or a rule might change while we tune it. Freestyle and Cursed Arena are the live modes.

Who makes Hyperline?

Dan "ddk" Kapadia and Christian "paralin" Stewart. Dan played Quake III professionally for 4Kings and Team Dignitas, then commentated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Majors, and now commentates Deadlock Night Shift, the weekly Deadlock tournament series. Christian has built open-source software for over a decade, including D2Moddin, which brought custom games to Dota 2 in 2014, and Modlock, the open modding framework Hyperline runs on.

Is this made by Valve?

No. Hyperline is an independent community project, not affiliated with Valve.