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.

The Steam notice can tell you if a game that still needs work hasn’t been updated in months or even years.

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

If too much time passes between Early Access game updates on Steam, Valve will add a warning notice to the product page.

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.

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

When you click on an early access game on Steam, you might see a new note that could give an idea whether its developer has already abandoned the project. As SteamDB first reported, Steam has started adding notes on games' official pages if they haven't been updated in a while.

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