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Early Access Promise Clock

How long did they say Early Access would take, and how long has it been? · 3,266 in Early Access · 4,562 promises read · 1,435 announced, not started

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Overdue (1,125)On the clock (1,492)Graduated (43)No promise (649)
AppliedClock started in 2014Parsed promises onlyClear allFurthest past the promise first
By the year the clock started

Graduations and promises, year by year

YearGamesIn Early Access nowGraduatedMedian time in EAPromise readOverduePromise kept
20261,3561,319373%2 months1,31497%58of 1,177 parsed—
202556056000%14 months53596%214of 462 parsed—
202428928900%2 years 1 month27896%170of 224 parsed—
202315515500%3 years 2 months14795%94of 122 parsed—
202210810800%4 years 2 months10395%65of 78 parsed—
2021858500%5 years 2 months7892%52of 62 parsed—
2020686800%6 years 2 months6799%39of 46 parsed—
2019616100%7 years 3 months61100%34of 38 parsed—
2018545400%8 years 3 months5296%39of 40 parsed—
2017969600%9 years 4 months9599%61of 64 parsed—
Overdue

Past the promised maximum

GamePromisePromisedElapsedClockVerdict
Dragon: The GameRed Level Games · entered 7 Nov 2014Dragon: The GameRed Level Games · entered 7 Nov 2014Early Access will continue to our retail launch in the winter of 2017. We will follow an aggressive development road map with major updates every three to seven weeks.read 9 Sep 20261–2 months11 years 10 months8894%Overdueby 11 years 9 months
CubeGuncandyrocketstudio · entered 21 May 2014CubeGuncandyrocketstudio · entered 21 May 2014It'll take one month or tworead 9 Sep 20261–2 months12 years 4 months7394%Overdueby 12 years 2 months
Colossal Kaiju Combat™: Kaijuland BattlesSunstone Games, LLC. · entered 11 Aug 2014Colossal Kaiju Combat™: Kaijuland BattlesSunstone Games, LLC. · entered 11 Aug 2014We anticipate about 3 months of Early Access will be necessary to really tune in the combat & controls.read 9 Sep 2026about 3 months12 years 1 month4840%Overdueby 11 years 10 months
Anarchy ArcadeElijah Newman-Gomez · entered 3 Sep 2014Anarchy ArcadeElijah Newman-Gomez · entered 3 Sep 2014AArcade's development is nearly complete and will be coming out of Early Access WITHIN A COUPLE MONTHS. The April 20th release date has been pushed back as we eagerly await news on a VR update to the Source engine.read 8 Sep 20262–3 months12 years4815%Overdueby 11 years 9 months
Cavern KingsVINE · entered 30 Sep 2014Cavern KingsVINE · entered 30 Sep 2014Cavern Kings will be Early Access until a final build is released. It's difficult to say how long that will take but my current goal is to fully release the game by the end of 2014.read 10 Sep 20263 monthsuntil 31 Dec 201412 years4785%Overdueby 11 years 9 months
Pro Wrestling XWrestling Gamers United · entered 18 Nov 2014Pro Wrestling XWrestling Gamers United · entered 18 Nov 2014Pro Wrestling X is as much a platform as it is an actual game; as such, we'll always be in on-going development. We'll continue to tweak, break, add new features, perfect old ones for quite some time. So the line between "Early Access" and "Final" is a bit blurred. In fact, there likely is no "Final". With that said, we've laid out a "Roadmap to 1.0" feature list in our long description. Once we complete that list, we'll transition away from Early Access. We're hopeful this is a 3-4 month timeline.read 9 Sep 20263–4 months11 years 10 months3549%Overdueby 11 years 6 months
Mission Control: NanoMechWisdomTools · entered 17 Dec 2014Mission Control: NanoMechWisdomTools · entered 17 Dec 2014The team is planning on 3-4 Months, but it is dependent on community feedback and the technical difficulty of any enhancements made.read 10 Sep 20263–4 months11 years 9 months3525%Overdueby 11 years 5 months
IsomerIonising Software · entered 11 Jul 2014IsomerIonising Software · entered 11 Jul 2014A few months, enough time to polish and balance all of the mechanics and add all the features we originally planned.read 9 Sep 20263–6 months12 years 2 months2437%Overdueby 11 years 8 months
Wild WarfareRocketSnail · entered 15 Jul 2014Wild WarfareRocketSnail · entered 15 Jul 2014Wild Warfare will likely remain in Early Access for most of 2014. At this point, no official release date for the full version of the game is confirmed.read 9 Sep 20266 monthsuntil 31 Dec 201412 years 2 months2435%Overdueby 11 years 8 months
CubeZMETAPHOR · entered 1 Dec 2014CubeZMETAPHOR · entered 1 Dec 2014We expect to stay in early access for around 6 months.read 9 Sep 2026about 6 months11 years 10 months2359%Overdueby 11 years 4 months
BLOCKADE 3DNovalink · entered 19 Dec 2014BLOCKADE 3DNovalink · entered 19 Dec 20144-6 months.read 9 Sep 20264–6 months11 years 9 months2349%Overdueby 11 years 3 months
Journey of the KingDigitalWorldEntertainment · entered 15 Dec 2014Journey of the KingDigitalWorldEntertainment · entered 15 Dec 2014We expect Journey of the King to be completed by August 2015.read 10 Sep 20269 monthsuntil 31 Aug 201511 years 9 months1567%Overdueby 11 years
Blockscapeioneo · entered 3 Jul 2014Blockscapeioneo · entered 3 Jul 2014Not much longer. The game is close to what I want it to be. I will not put a date on 1.0. I guessed “a year” when Early Access started, and that was wrong. I will leave Early Access when I am proud to call it finished. Until then I keep working. Quiet periods mean I am working, not that I have stopped. This is the project of my life. I will never abandon it.read 7 Sep 2026about 12 months12 years 2 months1221%Overdueby 11 years 2 months
Undead OverlordJumpCore Productions · entered 18 Jul 2014Undead OverlordJumpCore Productions · entered 18 Jul 2014The game may be in Early Access for quite some time. That will mostly depend on whether the game’s player community grows large enough to justify the addition of stretch goals, but also on the lives and fortunes of the game’s team of developers. Our goal is to reach a final release state for the game no later than one year after its release on Early Access. In the end, though, it will be done when it’s done. We want to bring the game to you as quickly as we can, but we are still only human (not yet having achieved interdimensional transcendence ourselves).read 9 Sep 2026about 12 months12 years 2 months1217%Overdueby 11 years 2 months
ACE - Arena: Cyber EvolutionSpearhead Games · entered 18 Aug 2014ACE - Arena: Cyber EvolutionSpearhead Games · entered 18 Aug 2014Until we reach a level where we can confidently organize pro-caliber tournament! We expect it to take somewhere between 6 months and 1 year.read 12 Sep 20266–12 months12 years 1 month1208%Overdueby 11 years 1 month
Xsyon - PreludeNotorious Games · entered 29 Dec 2014Xsyon - PreludeNotorious Games · entered 29 Dec 2014Early Access will continue throughout 2015 until the upcoming feature checklist listed below is complete.read 9 Sep 202612 monthsuntil 31 Dec 201511 years 9 months1172%Overdueby 10 years 9 months
Bot ColonyNorth Side Inc. · entered 16 Jun 2014Bot ColonyNorth Side Inc. · entered 16 Jun 2014Bot Colony will stay in Early Access until we consider our robots have achieved satisfactory understanding and until we release Riot (2018). Building a truly genre-defining game is a daunting task: intelligent assistants like Siri, Alexa or Watson don't yet match the multi-step dialogue capability of Jimmy (the domestic robot in Intruder). And we still have a long way to go!read 8 Sep 20264 years 7 monthsuntil 31 Dec 201812 years 3 months267%Overdueby 7 years 8 months
LEVEL UP!Ranmantaru Games · entered 24 Nov 2014LEVEL UP!Ranmantaru Games · entered 24 Nov 2014Currently on hiatus until spring 2020. I'm focusing on other projects for now.read 10 Sep 20265 years 6 monthsuntil 31 May 202011 years 10 months215%Overdueby 6 years 4 months
RodinaElliptic Games · entered 28 Jul 2014RodinaElliptic Games · entered 28 Jul 2014As I mention below, I'm currently working on a Roadmap which will take me out of Early Access. This roadmap will take me through 2022.read 9 Sep 20268 years 5 monthsuntil 31 Dec 202212 years 2 months144%Overdueby 3 years 9 months
Tail DriftBlocky Pixel · entered 30 Oct 2014Tail DriftBlocky Pixel · entered 30 Oct 2014We are targeting 2024 for a full release.read 10 Sep 202610 years 2 monthsuntil 31 Dec 202411 years 11 months117%Overdueby 21 months
Amazing Frog?Fayju · entered 21 Nov 2014Amazing Frog?Fayju · entered 21 Nov 2014We will leave Early Access before the end of 2025 (if not Jan 2026) The good news is we have almost finished our time in Early Access. We've been in early access for almost 11 years and as we approach the 'Law & Order' update, we will leave Early Access with a '1.0' of Amazing Frog?read 11 Sep 2026about 11 years11 years 10 months107%Overdueby 10 months
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A game is in Early Access when the store lists it among its genres; the clock starts on the day the ledger saw it enter or, for a game that launched into Early Access, on the release date the store prints. The promise is the developer’s own questionnaire answer, kept word for word; only ranges and single figures are compared, open answers are listed as open, and answers the parser could not read say so. Graduations are recorded from 3 Sep 2026, so earlier years undercount them. A game whose questionnaire has not been read yet says “not read yet” under No promise (how). Data by SteamPeaks.com.