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Steam is a digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation offering digital rights management (DRM), multiplayer gaming and social networking services. Steam provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games on multiple computers, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud saving, and in-game voice and chat functionality. Available on Window, Mac OS and Playstation.

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Steam reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Steam Outage Chart 03/12/2026 11:20

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Steam users through our website.

  1. Sign in (53%)

    Sign in (53%)

  2. Online Play (23%)

    Online Play (23%)

  3. Glitches (18%)

    Glitches (18%)

  4. Game Crash (3%)

    Game Crash (3%)

  5. Matchmaking (2%)

    Matchmaking (2%)

  6. Hacking / Cheating (%)

    Hacking / Cheating (%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Steam outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
GermanySchleiden Glitches
United KingdomMilton Keynes Sign in
MexicoBenito Juarez Sign in
PanamaPanamá Sign in
FranceL'Haÿ-les-Roses Glitches
United StatesSalt Lake City Sign in
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Community Discussion

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Steam Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • thuggee168 Thuggee 🎃 (@thuggee168) reported

    @RylandLevak @Steam looked on down decetor website looks like a global outage

  • RylandLevak Reelando (@RylandLevak) reported

    @thuggee168 @Steam Same problem.

  • MindofAntony Mind Of Antony (@MindofAntony) reported

    Anyone else having issue connecting to steam rn? #steam @Steam

  • OpticonGlobal THX-1138 (@OpticonGlobal) reported

    @chezman_ @Steam is down. Please fix your **** so that the legions of patrons can get back to what we do best. #SeamIsDown

  • strikstorno Striks Art (@strikstorno) reported

    @Steam Connection issues? #steam #Gaming #PC

  • darkharlequin ticktok.neocities.org (@darkharlequin) reported

    some days the @OnDeck is way more console like than I would like. I just wanted to play Elden Ring offline. But there was a multiplayer bug fix update preventing launching, @Steam servers were down, then it did shader precaching update, NOW IT'S VALIDATING ALL 46.9GB OF THE GAME!

  • AphriteBlack Aphrite (@AphriteBlack) reported

    @Elratauru @Steam Ya, I am having the same problem. I went to down detector, and it looks like we're not the only ones... @Steam

  • HardDaysMike michael (@HardDaysMike) reported

    @Indie_Gamer_01 @Steam Apparently it's an east coast problem. Not sure how true that is.

  • BlazinjAmZ420 Jordan McCoy (@BlazinjAmZ420) reported

    @Steam Steam down in AZ What good is the support website, if you have to login to be able to get there, and we can't even log in!! If you're going to have basically a monopoly on PC gaming, make it seamless for God sake 🙄 lots of ruined games today Steam.......

  • androiddeev Vladimir Arevshatyan | Senior Software Engineer (@androiddeev) reported

    @Steam Fix your ****** serve s please they are down again

  • oldyharnamcity Seburo (@oldyharnamcity) reported

    @Steam FIX YOUR ****

  • RylandLevak Reelando (@RylandLevak) reported

    @Steam Hey @Steam I'm having problems logging in to my Steam account. My brother has the same issue. we keep getting a message saying "There was a problem communicating with Steam. Please try again later." We know Steam is up and running but this seems to be a local problem at our end.

  • VirethornDab Virethorn, The Dab Endwalker (@VirethornDab) reported

    @Steam If you guys have a fix for your authentication so people can sign back in, my friend would really appreciate it. Like, yall got Steam working, but signing in is NOT working.

  • The_Tamrielian The Tamrielian (@The_Tamrielian) reported

    @Steam I restart my computer after updating the GeForce Drive to find Steam being a donkey and others reporting the same issue. What gives, Valve?!

  • Seccedonien Eon (@Seccedonien) reported

    @Steam When are you bringing the service back up? None can log in and access their games.

  • ArlMisery Arl Misery Arse (@ArlMisery) reported

    @Elratauru @Steam I can't do anything. but then again I think that's just because my steam deck is either broken or just an absolutely ******* **** piece of kit.

  • DannyGavreau Danny Gavreau 🐟 🇨🇵✝️✡️ (@DannyGavreau) reported

    @SteamStatus @Steam Cant login on Steam Deck. Cant buy dlc from my phone. Server error

  • scotty20505676 scotty (@scotty20505676) reported

    @SteamStatus @Steam I cant login at all

  • DittyInPhilly Mike (@DittyInPhilly) reported

    I finally have some time to play red dead 2 and you bastards @Steam are having server issues. Wow.

  • TheMogulJ Mogul (@TheMogulJ) reported

    Is anyone having egregious Steam issues? I haven't been able to sign in on any account for an hour. @Steam Either can't connect or "Something went wrong while attempting to sign you in."

  • MatthewRobinHow Matthew Robin Howard (@MatthewRobinHow) reported

    @Steam Fix it i am trying to sign in on ubuntu well it just sits there have it work right every time and quit making us sign in every time i do not like the inconvenience.

  • Frank_qwerty Frank (@Frank_qwerty) reported

    @Elratauru @Steam Yeah, its having issues.

  • SrgtRock SgtRock (@SrgtRock) reported

    @Steam "We never had problems like this when I was owner of Steam". -George Santos

  • RylandLevak Reelando (@RylandLevak) reported

    @iridiumsky999 @Steam I'm being told it's a global outage.

  • GoldenightMC Gold NPC (@GoldenightMC) reported

    @SteamStatus @Steam Still can't login in the app

  • ArlMisery Arl Misery Arse (@ArlMisery) reported

    Just to top off a ******* awful first day with Steam Deck, done a factory reset, and @Steam now has a mass outage. What a ******* **** day. And seemingly what a ******* **** device. Click. Freeze. Click. Nothing. Click click click. Nothing. Reboot. Click. Freeze. Click. Nothing.

  • Ban7ColoredFish Josh (@Ban7ColoredFish) reported

    @Steam fix your servers, it started bugging out while I was trying to redeem steam keys and I nearly had a heart attack thinking they were bad keys

  • ALPHAxSCOREGASM ricky (@ALPHAxSCOREGASM) reported

    @Steam plz fix or ima shoot myself. Its wipe day on rust!!!

  • RylandLevak Reelando (@RylandLevak) reported

    @thuggee168 @Steam Some of my friends are on steam right now. doesn't seem like they are in there area where they'd get the outages. or DDoS for that matter.

  • Bikergofast Bikergofast (@Bikergofast) reported

    @SteamStatus @Steam fix this **** my weekend just started