How long did they say Early Access would take, and how long has it been? · 1,709 in Early Access · 1,885 promises read · 640 announced, not started
| Year | Games | In Early Access now | Graduated | Median time in EA | Promise read | Overdue | Promise kept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 926 | 918 | 81% | 1 month | 80887% | 21of 737 parsed | — |
| 2025 | 295 | 295 | 00% | 13 months | 23780% | 81of 196 parsed | — |
| 2024 | 155 | 155 | 00% | 2 years | 13285% | 74of 106 parsed | — |
| 2023 | 92 | 92 | 00% | 3 years 2 months | 7885% | 44of 62 parsed | — |
| 2022 | 60 | 60 | 00% | 4 years 2 months | 5083% | 32of 39 parsed | — |
| 2021 | 46 | 46 | 00% | 5 years 2 months | 3474% | 20of 26 parsed | — |
| 2020 | 40 | 40 | 00% | 6 years 1 month | 3588% | 15of 19 parsed | — |
| 2019 | 29 | 29 | 00% | 7 years 3 months | 29100% | 12of 15 parsed | — |
| 2018 | 16 | 16 | 00% | 8 years 1 month | 1488% | 7of 8 parsed | — |
| 2017 | 13 | 13 | 00% | 9 years 3 months | 1292% | 5of 7 parsed | — |
| Game | Promise | Promised | Elapsed | Clock | Verdict | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automation - The Car Company Tycoon GameAutomation - The Car Company Tycoon Game | Automation continues to be in active development, and will continue to be in development for the foreseeable future. Once the three-part Supercharger Update suite is completed, tentatively planned for early-to-mid 2026, Automation’s Car and Engine Designers will be considered feature complete according to our original plans, and development will re-focus on Campaign Mode.read 5 Sep 2026 | 11 years 4 monthsuntil 30 Jun 2026 | 11 years 6 months | 101% | Overdueby 2 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.