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Early Access Promise Clock

How long did they say Early Access would take, and how long has it been? · 1,698 in Early Access · 1,866 promises read · 634 announced, not started

Export CSVHow this is readQuestionnaires read up to 9 Sep 2026
Overdue (324)On the clock (901)Graduated (9)No promise (473)
AppliedClock started in 2014×Clear 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
202692191381%1 month80387%20of 733 parsed—
202529529500%13 months23780%81of 196 parsed—
202415515500%2 years13185%74of 106 parsed—
2023919100%3 years 1 month7785%43of 61 parsed—
2022595900%4 years 2 months4983%32of 39 parsed—
2021444400%5 years 2 months3273%19of 24 parsed—
2020404000%6 years 1 month3588%15of 19 parsed—
2019292900%7 years 3 months29100%12of 15 parsed—
2018161600%8 years 1 month1488%7of 8 parsed—
2017131300%9 years 3 months1292%5of 7 parsed—
Overdue

Past the promised maximum

GamePromisePromisedElapsedClockVerdict
Anarchy ArcadeElijah Newman-Gomez · entered 3 Sep 2014Anarchy ArcadeElijah Newman-Gomez · entered 3 Sep 2014AArcade's development is nearly complete and will be coming out of Early Access WITHIN A COUPLE MONTHS. The April 20th release date has been pushed back as we eagerly await news on a VR update to the Source engine.read 8 Sep 20262–3 months12 years4807%Overdueby 11 years 9 months
Blockscapeioneo · entered 3 Jul 2014Blockscapeioneo · entered 3 Jul 2014Not much longer. The game is close to what I want it to be. I will not put a date on 1.0. I guessed “a year” when Early Access started, and that was wrong. I will leave Early Access when I am proud to call it finished. Until then I keep working. Quiet periods mean I am working, not that I have stopped. This is the project of my life. I will never abandon it.read 7 Sep 2026about 12 months12 years 2 months1219%Overdueby 11 years 2 months
Bot ColonyNorth Side Inc. · entered 16 Jun 2014Bot ColonyNorth Side Inc. · entered 16 Jun 2014Bot Colony will stay in Early Access until we consider our robots have achieved satisfactory understanding and until we release Riot (2018). Building a truly genre-defining game is a daunting task: intelligent assistants like Siri, Alexa or Watson don't yet match the multi-step dialogue capability of Jimmy (the domestic robot in Intruder). And we still have a long way to go!read 8 Sep 20264 years 7 monthsuntil 31 Dec 201812 years 3 months267%Overdueby 7 years 8 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.