Steam Early Access Data Shows 56.7 Percent of 12,320 Titles Idle for a Year
The figures give Valve's automatic inactivity notice a measured base rate: a title past its first year on the store is more likely than not to be the one it gets attached to.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
A Steam data collection published on October 10 found that of 12,320 games in Early Access as of September 26, 6,989 had gone a year or more without updates. Among the 9,063 titles in Early Access longer than a year, 6,977 sat idle. Separately, 4,632 titles that reached full release between 2020 and 2025 were cataloged by time spent in Early Access.
Valve already flags these pages itself. Early Access store listings with no update for at least twelve months carry a notice that reads, in part, that the last developer update was over a certain number of months ago and that the information and timeline provided may no longer be current.
The data covers two populations instead of one. The 12,320 titles counted on September 26 are the whole realm of Early Access games as it stood that day. The 4,632 titles released between 2020 and 2025 are a different set, gathered to measure how long a full release takes.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.