Steam Early Access Games That Aren’t Updated Now Include Warnings
SteamDB confirmed that Valve updated the descriptions appearing on Early Access PC games on the Steam storefront to warn people about stagnant projects. The notice explaining how long it has been since the developers updated a title will appear immediately after the Early Access notification and before the text going over the developer description. A good example to compare the change is to show how Fields of Mistria, a Stardew Valley style life sim currently in Early Access on Steam and actively update, looks when compared to the product page for Folk Tale, which entered that phase in 2013 and had development stop in 2017. As Fields of Mistria is regularly updated, there is no notice. In January 2025, NPC Studio announced a March 2025 update for example. Since Folk Tale development ended and it is even no longer on Steam, the warning notice is present. It reads, “Note: The last update made by the developers was over 7 years ago. The information and timeline described by the developers here may no longer be up to date.” Here’s a gallery showing how an Early Access box on Steam looks both with and without the warning notice about gaps in updates about games. Screenshots by Siliconera Valve did not note how much of a gap there needs to be since the last update on an Early Access game before that notification will appear on a product page. The post Steam Early Access Games That Aren’t Updated Now Include Warnings appeared first on Siliconera.
SteamDB confirmed that Valve updated the descriptions appearing on Early Access PC games on the Steam storefront to warn people about stagnant projects. The notice explaining how long it has been since the developers updated a title will appear immediately after the Early Access notification and before the text going over the developer description.
A good example to compare the change is to show how Fields of Mistria, a Stardew Valley style life sim currently in Early Access on Steam and actively update, looks when compared to the product page for Folk Tale, which entered that phase in 2013 and had development stop in 2017. As Fields of Mistria is regularly updated, there is no notice. In January 2025, NPC Studio announced a March 2025 update for example. Since Folk Tale development ended and it is even no longer on Steam, the warning notice is present. It reads, “Note: The last update made by the developers was over 7 years ago. The information and timeline described by the developers here may no longer be up to date.”
Here’s a gallery showing how an Early Access box on Steam looks both with and without the warning notice about gaps in updates about games.
Valve did not note how much of a gap there needs to be since the last update on an Early Access game before that notification will appear on a product page.
The post Steam Early Access Games That Aren’t Updated Now Include Warnings appeared first on Siliconera.
