The Dead We Knew Discord: Finding the Real Community Hub

As of 2026-10-15, the official Steam store page for THE DEAD WE KNEW: Open World Survival does not list a Discord server, and neither does the game's Steam Community hub. If you are looking for somewhere to talk about the game with other players before or after launch, the Steam hub is the channel that is actually in use — that is where players are posting right now, and it is the page to check first if MAY19 STUDIO opens a server later.

What the Steam Community hub looks like today

As of 2026-10-15 the hub's feed is thin — a handful of threads rather than a busy forum. The visible posts are mostly questions and concerns from players: what the launch price will be, a request for proper Xbox controller and Steam Machine optimization, and several threads arguing about how familiar the game's assets and animations look. The thread with the most replies is titled "Delayed, again", and another, "the day before all over again", compares the marketing to The Day Before and warns other players not to build up false hope. Those are player opinions and player worries, not statements from the developer, and they reflect a community that is cautious rather than settled.

The game itself is listed as releasing in Early Access on October 22, 2026, developed and published by MAY19 STUDIO, with single-player, online co-op and Family Sharing on the store page. That co-op tag is the main reason people go looking for a server in the first place, so the hub's discussion threads are the practical place to start if you want to find others to play with.

Where official news shows up

MAY19 STUDIO has been posting announcements through the store page's news feed rather than through a chat server. The most recent posts there are a 2026-10-13 confirmation that the game arrives on Steam on October 22, and a 2026-10-09 note that the game passed 250,000 wishlists. If an official Discord is ever created, the store page news feed and the Community hub are the two developer-controlled pages where a link would appear first.

One thing worth not confusing with a server: the store page lists "In-game chat" as an interactive element. That refers to chat inside the game itself, not an outside community platform.

If you find a server calling itself official

For any unreleased or freshly launched survival game, Discord servers branded as "the official one" tend to appear before the developer links anything. As a general rule, treat a server as verifiable only when the invite comes from a page the developer controls — the store page, a news post, or the Community hub — and be sceptical of invites circulated in comment sections or video descriptions. You never need to hand over Steam login details, trade items, or payment information to join a game's community chat, and any server asking for those is not behaving like a normal fan or developer space.

If no server exists when you read this, the Steam hub's discussions are still the most direct route: start a thread there, and watch the news feed around launch, when studios typically open community channels.