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

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.

To save players from the disappointment of purchasing an early access game that has unknowingly been abandoned by its developers, SteamDB noted that Steam has implemented a new sy

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

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

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