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Early Access Promise Clock

How long did they say Early Access would take, and how long has it been? · 2,574 in Early Access · 3,538 promises read · 1,189 announced, not started

Export CSVHow this is readQuestionnaires read up to 13 Sep 2026
Overdue (746)On the clock (1,276)Graduated (27)No promise (552)
AppliedClock started in 2021Tag: ExplorationClear 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
20261,1791,154252%2 months1,11895%42of 1,006 parsed—
202545245200%13 months41892%154of 358 parsed—
202424624600%2 years 1 month23093%138of 186 parsed—
202312712700%3 years 2 months11792%72of 95 parsed—
2022878700%4 years 2 months7991%52of 62 parsed—
2021656500%5 years 2 months5889%35of 44 parsed—
2020545400%6 years 2 months5194%26of 33 parsed—
2019535300%7 years 3 months53100%27of 30 parsed—
2018323200%8 years 2 months3094%21of 22 parsed—
2017393900%9 years 3 months3897%19of 21 parsed—
Overdue

Past the promised maximum

GamePromisePromisedElapsedClockVerdict
Fat BabyNo one · entered 24 Dec 2021Fat BabyNo one · entered 24 Dec 2021It depends on what our community wants to add to the game. I would guess anywhere from 3-6 months.read 9 Sep 20263–6 months4 years 9 months944%Overdueby 4 years 3 months
Death TrashCrafting Legends · entered 5 Aug 2021Death TrashCrafting Legends · entered 5 Aug 2021We don't know exactly how long this game will still be in Early Access. Our past attempts at predicting it were way too optimistic. We are a small team working on our first large game and didn't expect the complexity of this project. We are doing our best to get Death Trash done as soon as possible while still achieving the quality it deserves. Our current state (June 2025): We have more than 50% of the work done which was planned for Early Access. (Talking about the actual work tasks here, not the accessible content.) The remaining tasks are concrete content-related, not vague, and almost all of them consist of stuff we have already done in the past. There is a rough roadmap in the game client and here on the store page.read 12 Sep 20263 years 11 monthsuntil 30 Jun 20255 years 1 month130%Overdueby 14 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.