Steam introduces warning to Early Access titles with no new recent updates

Steam is introducing a warning to users interested in Early Access titles, warning users if the game has seen no new recent updates. It seems to be an automatic thing, though, as even confirmed dead games are being slapped with the warning.

Spotted by SteamDB on Bluesky, the warning simply informs users that the game hasn’t seen any new updates recently and that the dev timeline may be out of date. Now, it’s worth pointing out that this seems to not be perfect. While it seeks to inform people of potentially unstable or abandoned games, it also sends off false positives sometimes.

Pirate Software’s Heartbound, for example, is still in Early Access, but had an update just days ago, but is slapped with the warning that it hasn’t been updated in 13 months. Meanwhile games like Kerbal Space Program 2, which hasn’t seen an update in seven months, remain without that warning. It likely falls into an automated warning after 12 months.

It’s likely not counting the Heartbound updates as the updates have been going through Steam Betas.

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