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 was spotted by SteamDB in a Bluesky post:

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

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.

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

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 now warns PC gamers if an Early Access game hasn't seen a recent update.