{"id":9931,"date":"2026-11-04T05:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9931"},"modified":"2026-11-04T05:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:21:40","slug":"valve-steam-game-increase-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=9931","title":{"rendered":"Valve is making changes to deal with a \u2018significant increase\u2019 in Steam game submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/groups\/steamworks\/announcements\/detail\/696528162820984746?utm_source=SteamDB\">new post today<\/a>, Valve acknowledged that it\u2019s seen \u201ca significant increase in submissions for store and page review in recent months\u201d and says it\u2019s \u201crunning a little behind\u201d by taking \u201cup to 12 business days\u201d for reviews instead of the typical 3-5 days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Indie developers have recently expressed frustrations over lengthy approval times for Steam games, even causing some games to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/1025596\/valve-steam-indie-games-missing-launch-dates\">miss planned launch dates<\/a>. Valve says that \u201cmuch\u201d of the delay is having to re-review games, so it\u2019s making some changes to the release checklist for developers to hopefully \u201ccut down on re-reviews for basic functional issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The changes include requiring developers to run games through Steam for at least five minutes. \u201cBelieve it or not, sometimes we review builds that have not ever been played through Steam,\u201d Valve says. \u201cThis means that even if a game runs smoothly when a dev launches their executable directly, they might have missed basic steps that would impact a user installing and playing via Steam.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Other requirements include making sure that achievements are ready and confirming any required common redistributables, like DirectX or Visual C++, that Steam may need to install.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Valve also says more improvements are in the works for the build review process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/1025722\/valve-steam-game-increase-submissions\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new post today, Valve acknowledged that it\u2019s seen \u201ca significant increase in submissions for store and page review in recent months\u201d and says it\u2019s \u201crunning a little behind\u201d by taking \u201cup to 12 business days\u201d for reviews instead of the typical 3-5 days. 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