Steam is experiencing an outage that is affecting users’ ability to access the game store and play games online. Valve has not publicly acknowledged the outage, but SteamDB’s unofficial Steam status page reports that the Steam Store, Steam Community, and Steam Web APIs are all offline.
DownDetector received over 6,000 outage reports around 1:15 p.m. ET, and Steam is also inaccessible from Valve’s mobile apps. The outage appears to affect Valve’s online gaming APIs, such as Team Fortress 2, Dota 2 And counterattack 2, Also.
Steam’s last major outage was in October, when the store and online services were unavailable for an hour. Earlier in September, the launch of Hollow Knight: Song of Silk temporarily shut down Steam, the Xbox Store, and Nintendo eShop due to the number of people trying to download the game at the same time.
