Love Locks has a release date, and its idea of a romantic trip to Paris involves rather more scrap metal than a nice dinner. Collision Games and publisher Blue Brain Games’ first-person cleanup game launches on 3 December 2026 via Steam, putting players to work removing 100,000 padlocks from a bridge.
The setting is inspired by the Pont des Arts, but the task is less about leaving your own declaration of undying affection and more about clearing everyone else’s. Discarded keys have ended up in the Seine, so part of the job involves magnet fishing for them and finding the locks they fit. Useful tools can turn up alongside the keys, giving you more ways to get through the mountain of metal.
Progression steadily turns that quiet cleanup into something rather more excessive. Removed locks add to your collected scrap, which helps unlock equipment ranging from pliers and saws to bolt cutters, angle grinders and eventually lasers. It is quite a journey from carefully opening one padlock to deciding that the entire fence needs a science-fiction solution.
You can work alone or invite friends to keep you company, with each player retaining their own locks and progress. That detail matters: the Steam description presents it as sharing the space while working through your own cleanup, so you can hang around together without everybody having to tackle exactly the same patch of railing.
The store also makes a point of letting players dip in and out. Removed locks stay removed, allowing you to clear a small area, leave it there and return later when the urge to dismantle someone’s grand romantic gesture strikes again. For a game built around an enormous number, the pace sounds deliberately unhurried.
Love Locks is scheduled for 3 December on the official Steam page, where it can be wishlisted now for Windows PC. Pricing has not yet been announced, so the cost of this particular romantic getaway remains to be confirmed.