In recent months, Valve has been making moves to ensure more transparency on Steam. The latest move? Introducing a new warning on product pages for Early Access games that haven’t received updates in a long time.

It’s still not exactly clear what updates are substantial enough to reset the counter and how long it takes between updates for it to appear. Open-world survival zombie sim Project Zomboid has been in Early Access on Steam for over a decade and doesn’t show the new warning because it still receives regular updates. Its last one was in January.

S team’s early access program helps small to medium-sized developers get an idea off the ground, but not every game actually does. Now, Valve has a notice designed to warn Steam

Valve just implemented a welcome warning message that proves the company continues to put its Steam customers first.

Steam has added a new warning to the Steam pages of early-access games that have not been updated in a long time.

It's not a universally applied system yet, but Steam will now tell players if an Early Access game hasn't been updated in over a year.

Valve has rolled out a new Steam feature that warns you when a game in Early Access hasn't had an update in a while, but there are caveats.

Steam early access games that haven't been updated in a long while will now be more prominently labelled as such,

Steam now warns about Early Access games that haven't been updated in months, helping players identify unupdated games.