Developer Build of Dead Island Accidentally Released on Steam

An unfinished version of Dead Island, the tropical co-op zombie title from Techland, was mistakenly released on Steam in North America. According to Develop, the game’s publisher, Deep Silver, plans on replacing the developer-only version with proper retail code as soon as possible.

Sleuths on Steam and Dead Island forums uncovered code suggesting that the software was actually a pre-release console build:

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Other errors and undefined variables in the code could explain the vast array of bugs and multiplayer connectivity issues, as well as the ability to clip through environments with the press of a button. Deep Silver hopes to address a whole host of problems (which have been catalogued by Destructoid) with its day-one patch.

If you have been eagerly awaiting Dead Island ever since its clever debut trailer released in February, you may want to wait a little longer.

Source: Develop