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FavaBeans 3 Jul @ 4:51pm

Version/Build Number

It would be helpful if a version or build number was easily displayed for early access games. Making it easy to tell how close the game is to release. Up vote for hope.

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datCookie 3 Jul @ 5:03pm

In my experience, build versions are shown somewhere in the main menu screen in-game.

I also wouldn't use them as a guide for how close a game is to "release", because these numbers can keep going for as long as the devs want until they decide it's done.

cSg|mc-Hotsauce 3 Jul @ 5:09pm

I don't disagree.

The beta branches now have build ids...

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/4547039255696769967

Last edited by cSg|mc-Hotsauce; 3 Jul @ 5:10pm

Anonymous Helper 4 Jul @ 1:48am

Originally posted by FavaBeans:
It would be helpful if a version or build number was easily displayed for early access games. Making it easy to tell how close the game is to release. Up vote for hope.

Except there is no standard versioning system used by all developers and most of the time version number has no relation to completion of the game. I mean after version 0.9 comes 0.10, not 1.0 or game being version 0.57 then updated to 1.0. A lot of time he 1.0 is not the complete game either. There are also lot of games where version number is just date version was released on. How complete is version 2025074?