How long did they say Early Access would take, and how long has it been? · 1,608 in Early Access · 1,711 promises read · 595 announced, not started
| Year | Games | In Early Access now | Graduated | Median time in EA | Promise read | Overdue | Promise kept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 877 | 871 | 61% | 1 month | 75486% | 15of 687 parsed | — |
| 2025 | 282 | 282 | 00% | 13 months | 22279% | 74of 182 parsed | — |
| 2024 | 148 | 148 | 00% | 2 years | 12484% | 70of 99 parsed | — |
| 2023 | 89 | 89 | 00% | 3 years 1 month | 7584% | 42of 59 parsed | — |
| 2022 | 55 | 55 | 00% | 4 years 2 months | 4378% | 27of 34 parsed | — |
| 2021 | 39 | 39 | 00% | 5 years 2 months | 2769% | 16of 20 parsed | — |
| 2020 | 38 | 38 | 00% | 6 years 2 months | 3387% | 14of 18 parsed | — |
| 2019 | 26 | 26 | 00% | 7 years 3 months | 26100% | 10of 13 parsed | — |
| 2018 | 15 | 15 | 00% | 8 years 1 month | 1387% | 6of 7 parsed | — |
| 2017 | 13 | 13 | 00% | 9 years 3 months | 1292% | 5of 7 parsed | — |
| Game | Promise | Promised | Elapsed | Clock | Verdict |
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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.