Is Steam down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Steam right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Steam continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are website / app down, can't log in, store or purchases, can't join a game, downloads failing, cloud saves not loading, lag or disconnects and app keeps crashing. Those are the options the report button offers for Steam, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Steam specifically, sign-in, the store, the content delivery network and the community services are separate. You can play an installed game while the store is unreachable, and downloads come from regional content servers, so one bad region stalls your download while everyone else is fine. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Steam, launch an already-installed single-player game. It working while the store does not is Steam's web services rather than your connection. Then load store.steampowered.com in a browser to separate the client from the network. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Steam's side. Specifically: change your download region in settings before assuming an outage, since a stalled download is usually one unhealthy content server rather than Steam being down. Offline mode keeps installed single-player games playable throughout. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Steam does not publish a machine-readable status feed, so we cannot read a verdict from them. We probe store.steampowered.com directly over HTTP, fall back to an ICMP ping if that is inconclusive, and weigh reports from visitors. That means we can tell you the service is unreachable, but not what Steam says about it. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Steam or store.steampowered.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Steam's own support, not us.