How long did they say Early Access would take, and how long has it been? · 1,737 in Early Access · 1,955 promises read · 669 announced, not started
| Year | Games | In Early Access now | Graduated | Median time in EA | Promise read | Overdue | Promise kept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 932 | 924 | 81% | 1 month | 82088% | 23of 749 parsed | — |
| 2025 | 305 | 305 | 00% | 13 months | 24881% | 84of 205 parsed | — |
| 2024 | 159 | 159 | 00% | 2 years 1 month | 13686% | 77of 109 parsed | — |
| 2023 | 93 | 93 | 00% | 3 years 2 months | 7985% | 44of 62 parsed | — |
| 2022 | 62 | 62 | 00% | 4 years 2 months | 5284% | 33of 40 parsed | — |
| 2021 | 46 | 46 | 00% | 5 years 2 months | 3678% | 21of 27 parsed | — |
| 2020 | 41 | 41 | 00% | 6 years 1 month | 3688% | 16of 20 parsed | — |
| 2019 | 29 | 29 | 00% | 7 years 3 months | 29100% | 12of 15 parsed | — |
| 2018 | 17 | 17 | 00% | 8 years 1 month | 1588% | 7of 8 parsed | — |
| 2017 | 13 | 13 | 00% | 9 years 3 months | 1292% | 5of 7 parsed | — |
| Game | Promise | Promised | Elapsed | Clock | Verdict | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feed and Grow: FishFeed and Grow: Fish | One year. During this time we want to test the specific new additions and focus on improving them.read 5 Sep 2026 | about 12 months | 10 years 8 months | 1067% | Overdueby 9 years 8 months |
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.