On March 20th, 2013, Valve officially announced the early access feature on steam, the largest video game marketplace for the Windows platform. The first batch of early access games was a modest list of just 12 titles, out of which Arma 3, Kerbal Space Program and Prison Architect are the most recognisable ones. As of May 2024, Steam now has more than 11,000 titles in Early Access. It’s clearly a popular business model that has worked wonders for a lot of developers and publishers.
However, as recently seen in the case of Wayfinder, things don’t always work out.
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