Steam now lets Early Access games show their planned 1.0 launch window right on the store page

Steam’s making it easier to tell when an Early Access game is actually planning to hit 1.0. Developers can now add a “Leaving Early Access” date field to their Steam store pages, so players don’t have to hunt through old posts or vague roadmap notes to find a launch window.

According to the Steamworks Development blog, the new field lives in Steamworks and shows up at the top of the Early Access description section on the store page. Devs can set it as a broad window, like “within a year,” or get specific with an exact date.

That’s a change from how it worked before, where a game could sit in Early Access with no clear “full launch” timing on the page itself. If a studio wanted to communicate 1.0 plans, it mostly had to rely on the game’s News section and hope people saw it.

It’s also a useful detail because “1.0” often isn’t just a label swap. A lot of games treat the jump out of Early Access as a big reset point, sometimes paired with major updates and, in some cases, wipes or other sweeping changes that separate the launch build from what players were testing earlier.

Bottom line: if a developer has a real target for leaving Early Access, Steam now has a dedicated spot to display it where players are already looking.