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In the wake of witnessing an unprecedented number of game submissions to Steam over the last few months, Valve has been forced to delay approvals in order to deal with the existing backlog.

Following complaints by game developers on social media and elsewhere , Valve has now responded to explain why it's taking longer to get games approved. The short version: re-reviews are clogging up the system.

"We aim to test every game build in a timely manner, typically within three-five business days," Valve wrote in a Steam post . "However, we're running a little behind right now and taking up to 12 business days. Much of that delay is due to having to re-review games, which isn't great for you or for us."

As Valve explained in the post, games need to be re-reviewed when they're rejected for missing key quality assurance checks.…