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Early Access Promise Clock

How long did they say Early Access would take, and how long has it been? · 2,754 in Early Access · 3,815 promises read · 1,261 announced, not started

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Overdue (849)On the clock (1,333)Graduated (27)No promise (572)
AppliedClock started in 2014Tag: Early AccessClear 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
20261,2181,193252%2 months1,16395%46of 1,048 parsed—
202548848800%13 months45693%170of 390 parsed—
202425725700%2 years 1 month24395%147of 197 parsed—
202313613600%3 years 2 months12693%81of 104 parsed—
2022939300%4 years 2 months8692%55of 66 parsed—
2021737300%5 years 2 months6690%42of 51 parsed—
2020575700%6 years 2 months5698%30of 37 parsed—
2019535300%7 years 3 months53100%27of 30 parsed—
2018373700%8 years 3 months3595%27of 28 parsed—
2017474700%9 years 3 months4698%25of 27 parsed—
Overdue

Past the promised maximum

GamePromisePromisedElapsedClockVerdict
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 month4838%Overdueby 11 years 10 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 201411 years 11 months4783%Overdueby 11 years 8 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 months3523%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 months2436%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 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 months1567%Overdueby 11 years
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 months1216%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 month1207%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 months1171%Overdueby 10 years 9 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
Tail DriftBlocky Pixel · entered 29 Oct 2014Tail DriftBlocky Pixel · entered 29 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.