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Early Access Promise Clock

How long did they say Early Access would take, and how long has it been? · 2,564 in Early Access · 3,522 promises read · 1,184 announced, not started

Export CSVHow this is readQuestionnaires read up to 13 Sep 2026
Overdue (738)On the clock (1,274)Graduated (27)No promise (552)
AppliedClock started in 2014Tag: AdventureClear 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
20261,1771,152252%2 months1,11595%40of 1,003 parsed—
202545245200%13 months41892%154of 358 parsed—
202424524500%2 years 1 month22993%137of 185 parsed—
202312712700%3 years 2 months11792%72of 95 parsed—
2022878700%4 years 2 months7991%52of 62 parsed—
2021636300%5 years 2 months5689%34of 43 parsed—
2020545400%6 years 2 months5194%26of 32 parsed—
2019535300%7 years 3 months53100%27of 30 parsed—
2018313100%8 years 2 months2994%20of 21 parsed—
2017383800%9 years 3 months3797%18of 20 parsed—
Overdue

Past the promised maximum

GamePromisePromisedElapsedClockVerdict
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 months3522%Overdueby 11 years 5 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 9 months2357%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 months1566%Overdueby 11 years
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
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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.