How long did they say Early Access would take, and how long has it been? · 1,822 in Early Access · 2,105 promises read · 713 announced, not started
| Year | Games | In Early Access now | Graduated | Median time in EA | Promise read | Overdue | Promise kept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 963 | 954 | 91% | 1 month | 85789% | 25of 781 parsed | — |
| 2025 | 313 | 313 | 00% | 13 months | 25782% | 88of 215 parsed | — |
| 2024 | 166 | 166 | 00% | 2 years 1 month | 14386% | 83of 116 parsed | — |
| 2023 | 99 | 99 | 00% | 3 years 2 months | 8586% | 48of 68 parsed | — |
| 2022 | 66 | 66 | 00% | 4 years 2 months | 5786% | 36of 43 parsed | — |
| 2021 | 48 | 48 | 00% | 5 years 1 month | 3879% | 22of 30 parsed | — |
| 2020 | 42 | 42 | 00% | 6 years 1 month | 3788% | 17of 21 parsed | — |
| 2019 | 34 | 34 | 00% | 7 years 3 months | 34100% | 15of 18 parsed | — |
| 2018 | 19 | 19 | 00% | 8 years 1 month | 1789% | 9of 10 parsed | — |
| 2017 | 16 | 16 | 00% | 9 years 3 months | 1594% | 6of 8 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.