Valve Admits Steam Review Backlogs Hit Twelve Days

Valve admits it is running behind on Steam game approvals with wait times stretching up to twelve business days instead of the usual three to five. Multiple indie developers have seen their launches derailed for weeks because of the backlog, including games like Food Devils and Cubic Earth missing their release windows entirely. And here is the catch. Valve blames the delay on having to constantly re-review builds, adding new checklists that require developers to actually run their game through Steam for at least five minutes before submitting. Meanwhile, Itch.io just deleted a couple terabytes of AI slop to combat a similar wave of low quality games.