Steams early access program helps small to medium-sized developers get an idea off the ground, but not every game actually does. Now, Valve has a notice designed to warn Steam users when they visit an early access games store page if its been a minute since the last update. If the devs lofty goals for a 1.0 release were a little too lofty, then its probably time to do some due diligence before spending money on what may be abandonware.Valve hasnt formally announced the feature, but both Eurogamer and PC Gamer point it out as first highlighted by SteamDB. One example where you can see this warning in action is the store listing for Cavern Kings, which flags that its developers have not updated the game in over eight years.Thats probably long enough to safely say the game is abandoned (though the developer has since worked on another title). On the other hand, Pirate Softwares Heartbound currently has a warning for not being updated in 13 months. And the recent mostly negative user reviews track with that. But the developer just posted an update note in January to explain the hiatus, and also dropped a patch days ago on February 1st. So, this may not be a fully fleshed-out or foolproof feature just yet.