Live - 300+ check locations
Is Epic Games down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached epicgames.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 44d 0h.
Stop finding out from a search - HostTracker's website monitoring checks the services you depend on from 300+ locations and alerts you the moment one changes.
Up
for 44d 0h
- Last check
- just now
- Next check
- -
- HTTP
- OK
Checking epicgames.com right now
A fresh check, started when you opened this page - each probe runs its own independent DNS, TCP, TLS and HTTP request. Anonymous runs sample the network; a signed-in account checks from more locations.
Epic Games status
What Epic Games' own status page reports - separate from HostTracker's own checks above.
Degraded according to Epic Games' status page, updated just now
Open incident on Epic Games' status page
-
Epic Games Store iOS Issue
Parts named: Download/Installation
"Several games - including Rocket League Sideswipe and Fall Guys - are temporarily unavailable on Epic Games Store for iOS while we work to resolve an issue."
Latest update Read the full post
Epic Games parts
79 parts on its status page, the main ones first- Download/InstallationMinor
- Website
- Game Services
- Login
- Parties, Friends, and Messaging
- Voice Chat
- Matchmaking
- Stats and Leaderboards
Show all 79 partsHide the full list
- Fab
- MetaHuman Creator
- Quixel
- RealityScan
- Matchmaking
Fortnite
- Website
- Game Services
- Login
- Parties, Friends, and Messaging
- Voice Chat
- Matchmaking
- Stats and Leaderboards
- Item Shop
- Fortnite Crew
LEGO Fortnite
- Matchmaking
Fortnite Festival
- Matchmaking
Rocket League
- Login
- Website
- Game Services
- Matchmaking
- Stats and Leaderboards
- Item Shop
- Parties, Friends, and Messaging
- Voice Chat
Rocket League Sideswipe
- Login
- Website
- Game Services
- Matchmaking
- Stats & Leaderboards
- Item Shop
- Parties, Friends, and Messaging
Fall Guys
- Login
- Matchmaking
- Voice Chat
- Parties, Friends, and Messaging
- Item Shop
- Website
- Game Services
Epic Games Store
- Login
- Download/InstallationMinor
- Purchasing/Refunding
- Epic Wallet
- Store Browsing
- Publishing Tools
- Achievements
- Game Details
Epic Online Services
- Epic Account Services - Authentication
- Game Services - Authentication
- Achievements
- Anti-cheat
- Custom Invites
- Developer Portal
- Epic Text Chat
- Friends
- Leaderboards
- Lobbies
- Sessions
- Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
- Player Data Storage
- Presence
- Progression Snapshot
- Epic Games Store Ecommerce
- Sanctions
- Social Overlay
- Stats
- Title Storage
- Voice
Support-A-Creator
- Website/Portal
- New Applications
- 1.0 - 2.0 Account Migration
- Payment Process
- Creator Analytics
Unreal Engine
- UE Marketplace
UEFN
- Playing
- Creating
- Publishing
Epic Games Website
- Forums
Twinmotion Cloud
- Drive
- Pixel Streaming
Last 90 days on Epic Games' status page
7 incidents: 3 major, 3 minor and 1 not rated.
- Epic Games Store iOS Issue Minor impact ongoing
- EOS Sessions and Lobbies Minor impact 57m
- Matchmaking issues in Fortnite Minor impact 23m
- Trader Verification outage Major impact 1d 17h
- Fortnite Login Issues on Xbox Major impact 34m
- Fortnite Login Issues on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 Major impact 38m
- Support-A-Creator Website Down Not rated 8h 54m
HostTracker is not affiliated with Epic Games. Incident text is quoted briefly from their status page, with a link to the full post.
How Epic Games has behaved
Every figure here comes from HostTracker's own checks of epicgames.com, not from the vendor's status page.
Response time
911ms avg · 4622ms peak
What we check
-
HTTP911 ms average, every 10 minutesOK
-
Pingmonitored continuously, every 10 minutesFailing
-
Page Speed5700 ms average, every 15 minutesOK
90-day uptime
100.000% over 88 measured days · 1 incident · 0.2 min in total · longest 0.2 min
- Operational
- Degraded
- Down
- No data
Incident history
Last 90 days-
0.2 min
Is Epic Games not working for you?
Tell us what is broken. One click, no account.
One report per visitor per hour. We keep only the country and the problem type, never your IP address.
Problem reports, last 24 hours
Reports come from visitors of this page. A sharp rise above the usual level, together with failed checks in the live check below, means the problem is on Epic Games's side, not yours.
Top reported problems
Share of reports in the last 2 hours.
About Epic Games outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
Epic Games is the account, store and launcher layer beneath Fortnite, Rocket League, the Epic Games Store and a long list of third-party titles that use Epic Online Services - which makes it a shared dependency rather than a single product. An incident there does not just take down Epic's own games; it can block sign-in for unrelated titles from other publishers that authenticate through Epic. The most common failure people meet is the launcher: sign-in loops, downloads that will not start, or a store page that will not load while the games already installed run perfectly offline. Free-game giveaways and major sales are its predictable demand spikes, concentrating enormous traffic onto the store within a short window.
Common causes of Epic Games downtime
Not sure whether it's Epic Games or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
Account and authentication failures that block sign-in across Epic titles and any third-party game using Epic Online Services
Launcher problems - update loops, failed downloads, or a client that will not start
Store traffic surges during free-game giveaways and major sales
Entitlement and purchase-service errors that leave owned games showing as unavailable
Other services we track
AWSOperational
G
InstagramOperational
X
AmazonOperational
T
ShopifyOperational
DHostTracker has monitored websites and online services since 2004 and is trusted by 500,000+ sites today, covering 14 check types from 300+ global locations. Want the same multi-location confirmation and instant alerts for your own site or any service you depend on? Getting started costs nothing - start a free monitor or compare plans and pricing.
Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests epicgames.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Epic Games being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.
Possibly, but the launcher is also the component most prone to local faults, so it is worth separating the two. Try signing in to the Epic website in a browser: if that works, the account service is up and the problem is the launcher on your machine - cached credentials, a partial update, or a corrupted install, all of which are fixable locally. If the website also rejects sign-in and others report the same, it is an account-service incident. The multi-location check on this page establishes whether Epic's services are reachable from the wider internet at all.
Yes, and it is an easy connection to miss. Epic Online Services provides account, matchmaking and other backend functions to a wide range of third-party titles, so an incident at Epic can break sign-in or multiplayer in games that are not sold by Epic and carry no Epic branding in the interface. The tell is several unrelated games failing at the same moment in the same way, particularly at the login or matchmaking step while single-player content works. Checking whether Epic's own services are reachable is a quick way to confirm or rule out that shared dependency.
Monitor your website from 300+ locations
Start a free trial and get instant alerts when your site goes down - verified from multiple locations before you're notified.
- Trusted since 2004
- 500,000+ websites monitored
- 300+ checkpoints worldwide