You finally made the purchase. The install finished. You sit down for a real session with that game everyone won’t shut up about. Then your phone buzzes with a Steam announcement: \”Season 2 content roadmap revealed.\” And you freeze. Not because you’re excited. Because you know what it means.
That game you just bought isn’t a finished product. It’s a pre-season scrub.
This is the condition no one wants to admit they have: the opposite of FOMO. It’s the deep, reactive dread of playing something that’s still changing. You’re not afraid of missing out. You’re afraid of buying into a product that might be a completely different game in six months — or dead in six weeks.
One developer got tired of feeling that dread. So they built isitdoneyet.gg — a site that scrapes Steam data to answer a question that used to have an obvious answer: Is this game actually done?
As the creator put it: \”I have whatever the opposite of FOMO is, and I hate playing games if I feel like they have more content coming down the line.\” So they built a tool that tells you, upfront, whether a game is still in motion.
The site reads like a psychological profile of the modern gamer. It flags games with scheduled updates, upcoming DLC, or a history of post-launch patches. It labels them \”uncertain\” or \”not complete.\” It even tells you when a game’s latest content was added, so you can judge whether it’s truly settled.
And here’s the gut punch: A game being \”released\” doesn’t mean much when the roadmap has more future than the game does.
Think about Red Dead Redemption 2. A masterpiece. A \”complete\” single-player campaign that took years to make. But the site marks it as uncertain — because it has an online component that could receive future updates. Is that insane? Or is that the cold reality? If any part of a product is still a moving target, the product itself is still a target.
Check out Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader. It’s already out, but a DLC is coming. So the site says: not done yet. And you know what? That’s accurate. If you buy it now, you’re buying version one of a story that’s supposed to keep going. Some players are fine with that. Others want to experience the complete arc, all at once, on their own terms.
Why should those players have to R&D their own solution? Why do we need a third-party web scraper to tell us what a boxed product used to say on its back cover — \”TAKE HOME THE COMPLETE EXPERIENCE\”?
This site is not perfect. It might feel arbitrary, as one observer noted, because it’s measuring \”maintained\” instead of \”complete.\” Star Citizen’s not on it. Some games get updated years after release for quality-of-life fixes, not content. But that hardly matters. The fact that this tool exists at all is the real story.
We’ve outsourced the definition of \”done\” to the publishers. And they have every incentive to keep the door open, because an abandoned game is a graveyard, but a live game is a line item. As long as there’s a \”season\” on the horizon, you’re not a customer with a game. You’re a subscriber to a promise.
The industry turned \”completion\” into a luxury, and gamers had to build a metrics company to afford it.
The deeper problem is that this doesn’t only apply to games. Every app, every piece of software, every \”live experience\” is a perpetual beta. We’ve all learned to check \”is this finalized?\” before investing time, money, or emotion. We’ve learned to treat release dates as soft launches for an ever-revising narrative.
So no, this website won’t fix everything. It’s a bandage over a structural fracture. The real takeaway is uncomfortable: The question \”is it done yet?\” should never have to be asked. The fact that thousands of people are desperately refreshing an analytics page to avoid being treated like beta testers says more about the industry than any roadmap ever will.
Use the tool. But then ask the bigger question: Why do we have to ask at all?
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