How long did they say Early Access would take, and how long has it been? · 2,418 in Early Access · 3,261 promises read · 1,095 announced, not started
| Year | Games | In Early Access now | Graduated | Median time in EA | Promise read | Overdue | Promise kept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1,140 | 1,116 | 242% | 2 months | 1,07394% | 37of 963 parsed | — |
| 2025 | 431 | 431 | 00% | 13 months | 39191% | 142of 335 parsed | — |
| 2024 | 225 | 225 | 00% | 2 years 1 month | 20692% | 120of 166 parsed | — |
| 2023 | 122 | 122 | 00% | 3 years 2 months | 11191% | 67of 89 parsed | — |
| 2022 | 82 | 82 | 00% | 4 years 2 months | 7490% | 49of 58 parsed | — |
| 2021 | 59 | 59 | 00% | 5 years 2 months | 5288% | 30of 39 parsed | — |
| 2020 | 50 | 50 | 00% | 6 years 1 month | 4692% | 23of 29 parsed | — |
| 2019 | 48 | 48 | 00% | 7 years 3 months | 48100% | 25of 28 parsed | — |
| 2018 | 28 | 28 | 00% | 8 years 1 month | 2693% | 17of 18 parsed | — |
| 2017 | 34 | 34 | 00% | 9 years 3 months | 3397% | 17of 19 parsed | — |
| Game | Promise | Promised | Elapsed | Clock | Verdict | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prehistoric KingdomPrehistoric Kingdom | During the Early Access release in April 2022, the team felt that around 20 content updates would be necessary to make Prehistoric Kingdom feel polished and feature-complete. As of the time of writing in 2026, the team is hard at work on Update 18 and is aiming to fully release the game with Update 19, which is currently scheduled for 2027.read 5 Sep 2026 | 5 years 8 monthsuntil 31 Dec 2027 | 4 years 5 months | 77% | On the clock15 months left |
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.