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Early access, also known as alpha access, alpha founding, paid alpha, or game preview, is a funding model in the video game industry by which consumers can purchase and play a game in the various pre-release development cycles, such as pre-alpha, alpha, and/or beta, while the developer is able to use those funds to continue further development on the game.
Early access also helps to provide funding to the developers to help complete their games. [196] The early access approach allowed more developers to publish games onto the Steam service without the need for Valve's direct curation of games, significantly increasing the number of available games on the service. [197]
Ready or Not was released through Steam early access on December 17, 2021, before it was officially released on December 13, 2023. [2] The game was well-received for its atmosphere and gameplay and has been considered a spiritual successor to the similar SWAT series by Sierra Entertainment.
Steam early access is great. You get immediate access to games that are being developed with the community's involvement which means you get to discover and play new games while watching them ...
Baldur's Gate 3 became the best-selling game on both Steam and GOG.com on the day of its early access launch. [96] On Steam, the game had about 537,000 concurrent players on release day and peaked at 875,000 two weeks after release. [97] [98] [99] It sold more than 2.5 million copies during its early access phase. [100]
Valheim is an upcoming survival and sandbox video game by the Swedish developer Iron Gate Studio and published by Coffee Stain Studios. [1] It was released in early access on 2 February 2021 for Linux and Windows via Steam, and for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on 14 March 2023.
Scum is an upcoming multiplayer online survival game, developed by Croatian studio Gamepires, available under the Steam Early Access program. The game is described as a "prison riot survival game" [1] and will feature an open world.
The game was made first available in Early Access through Steam on June 17, 2021. The game was released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S on November 10, 2022. [1] [2] On June 17, 2024, the DLC Highway was released, expanding the world and adding content like trucks. [3]