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.

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.

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.

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

EARLY access has been a large part of Steam’s gaming model for years, but not all early access games are successful. Many smaller projects go into early access on Steam, and there are two main

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.

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

Steam now warns players when games released in early access have not been recently updated. As spotted by SteamDB, early access games that have not recently received an update will now carry a warning to prospective players, stating: "The last update made by the developer was over [X] months ago.

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