Early Access games on Steam
Early Access on Steam: 12,894 released games, 3,899 in the last 12 months, 4,325 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 1. 54% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. Early Access is a Steam store tag, applied by the developer and refined by players; a game carries several tags at once, so niche counts overlap and do not add up to the size of the Steam catalogue. Data as of .
What releases end up with
lifetime reviews · released 3 years ago to 90 days ago · failures included4,585 releasesp100
p250
median1
p7546
p90288
54% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $7.99 · 14% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago — anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
891med 16 · 43% unseen
2020
940med 18 · 42% unseen
2021
861med 17 · 42% unseen
2022
871med 15 · 43% unseen
2023
972med 13 · 47% unseen
2024
1,261med 12 · 47% unseen
2025
1,638med 8 · 51% unseen
2026
2,582med 0 · 65% unseen · 1,204 too fresh
Best known here
by lifetime reviews
Latest releases
most recent first
