How long did they say Early Access would take, and how long has it been? · 1,356 in Early Access · 1,219 promises read · 457 announced, not started
| Year | Games | In Early Access now | Graduated | Median time in EA | Promise read | Overdue | Promise kept |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 764 | 761 | 30% | 4 weeks | 60880% | 9of 558 parsed | — |
| 2025 | 233 | 233 | 00% | 13 months | 15868% | 50of 127 parsed | — |
| 2024 | 117 | 117 | 00% | 2 years | 9178% | 46of 71 parsed | — |
| 2023 | 70 | 70 | 00% | 3 years 1 month | 5274% | 27of 39 parsed | — |
| 2022 | 48 | 48 | 00% | 4 years 2 months | 3675% | 21of 27 parsed | — |
| 2021 | 34 | 34 | 00% | 5 years 2 months | 2265% | 12of 16 parsed | — |
| 2020 | 33 | 33 | 00% | 6 years 1 month | 2885% | 13of 16 parsed | — |
| 2019 | 20 | 20 | 00% | 6 years 11 months | 1995% | 7of 10 parsed | — |
| 2018 | 15 | 15 | 00% | 8 years 1 month | 1387% | 6of 7 parsed | — |
| 2017 | 11 | 11 | 00% | 9 years 3 months | 982% | 5of 6 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.