Is Steam down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached store.steampowered.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 14d 9h.
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Incident history
LAST 90 DAYSNo incidents recorded in the last 90 days.
About Steam outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
Steam is the dominant PC game store and launcher, and its reach goes far beyond buying games: sign-in, friends lists, matchmaking, achievements, cloud saves, and the Workshop all flow through Valve's Steam services, so an outage can interrupt play sessions in games you already own - not just shopping. Steam is also unusual among major services in having a routine, predictable downtime pattern (a brief weekly maintenance window) plus extreme, equally predictable demand spikes when a seasonal sale opens or a blockbuster launches, and its store, community, and login systems can each degrade independently. That mix of scheduled blips and genuine incidents makes an independent reachability check especially useful for Steam: it tells you within seconds whether the storefront itself is unreachable or whether the problem is your client, your network, or one specific Steam subsystem.
Common causes of Steam downtime
The routine weekly maintenance window (typically Tuesday afternoon, US Pacific time), which briefly interrupts logins and community features by design
Store and login overload in the opening minutes of major seasonal sales and huge game launches, when demand spikes faster than capacity
Authentication incidents that block signing in or show "No connection" in the client while already-running games keep working
Community and Web API degradation that breaks friends lists, inventories, and third-party trading/stats sites while the store itself loads
Not sure whether it's Steam 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.
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests store.steampowered.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 Steam 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.
No - as of the most recent check, store.steampowered.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 14d 9h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
Mostly yes, for single-player: if the client is already signed in, Steam's Offline Mode lets installed single-player games launch without contacting Valve's servers. What breaks is everything that depends on live Steam services - multiplayer matchmaking and lobbies in games that use them, cloud-save sync, achievements, the store, and the community. If you can't even start the client because the outage began before you logged in, offline mode may be unavailable too, which is why enabling it while things are healthy is a common precaution among players.
Valve performs regular weekly maintenance on Steam's backend, traditionally on Tuesday afternoons US Pacific time, and during that window logins, the community, and game-coordinator services for titles like Counter-Strike and Dota 2 briefly drop. It usually lasts minutes, isn't announced as an incident, and resolves on its own. If Steam is unreachable outside that familiar window, or stays down much longer than a typical maintenance blip, it's more likely a genuine outage - a multi-location check on the storefront confirms whether it's global.
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