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Is Steam Down Right Now?

store.steampowered.com is currently Up

HostTracker's monitoring network reached store.steampowered.com and completed a full check without errors. Currently up for 11d 9h.

Last checked just now from 300+ worldwide locations

Live monitoring

Live Steam Status

Operational

Current status

Operational

Currently up for 11d 9h

Last check

just now

Checked every 10 minutes

Last 24 hours

100.00%

0 incidents, 0m down

7-day uptime

100.00%

30-day uptime

100.00%

Response Time

Last 30 days

1120 ms avg

1120 ms

Average

187 ms

Minimum

4628 ms

Maximum

Monitored checks

HTTP

Operational

Ping

Operational

Page Speed

Operational

Uptime History

Daily uptime

90 days ago Operational Degraded Down No data Today

No incidents recorded in the last 90 days.

Why it happens

About Steam Outages

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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Frequently asked questions.

How can I check right now if Steam is down or if it's just me?

The instant check tool above tests store.steampowered.com live from HostTracker's network of 300+ worldwide locations at once, rather than from 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.

Can I get alerted automatically the next time Steam goes down?

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.

Can I still play my games if Steam is down?

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.

Why does Steam seem to go down for a few minutes every Tuesday?

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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