Steam's Early Access section is filled with abandoned games and half-effort money grabs. Where did it go wrong, and who's really to blame?

Valve is changing how beta access works for Steam games for the better. Instead of forcing you to input a special key from a game’s developer to join a beta, the new Steam Playtest feature makes ...

Steam has introduced a new feature to help people know how often Early Access games are updated. If an Early Access game hasn’t been updated in a long time, an alert will show up on its store ...

Playing in-development games is part of the natural PC landscape these days. Take a browse through Steam’s catalogue and you’ll encounter endless Early Access titles: games allowing you to pay ...

Once claimed, your Steam key for Scavengers Early Access will be emailed to you. It might take 5-10 minutes to receive your key after claiming it from your Twitch inventory.

Early Access launched in May 2013 as a way for game makers to sell their products partway through the development cycle and get input from players on how to proceed.

Steam Early Access brings you games before they're finished. We take a look at games that are stuck in development limbo and investigate your rights as an Early Access consumer.

Three years is a long time in gaming. When Steam’s Early Access program launched in 2013 it helped bring games like Kerbal Space Program, Ark: Survival Evolved, Prison Architect and DayZ to light.

The Early Access program, designed to let developers sell unfinished games with a view to improving them over time based on player feedback, opened in March 2013 and since then 239 games have ...

Steam Early Access lets developers sell games before they've been completed to help fund their development. If these games are never finished, though, you won't be able to get a refund.

This 2018 early access survival game notorious for poop mechanics and penis sliders will finally go 1.0 this month Latest in Platforms Five new Steam games you probably missed (June 30, 2025) ...

The game is currently rocking a very respectable 87/100 on Metacritic for Xbox Series X and 88/100 on PC. These averages are dragged down by some surprising 7/10 scores from—of all places— IGN ...