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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 03/16/2026 21:45

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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 (24%)

    Online Play (24%)

  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
ItalyVerona Online Play
FranceRolleville Sign in
United StatesLincoln Sign in
AustraliaSydney Sign in
GermanyViersen Online Play
FranceRoyan Online Play
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Steam Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • kdawg69kt Kenneth Turner (@kdawg69kt) reported

    @Barnacules @Steam @Google needs to fix the Steam Deck Stream Deck thing

  • FrankRo63654945 Frank Roberts (@FrankRo63654945) reported

    @GavinRolls @Steam I understand perfectly that means, thanks. If you offer something, knowing that the servers will be with errors, it is a fraud. If you talk by LAW, it is not a fraud, but for the costumer is a fraud. If you don't understand that i want to tell, bad luck.

  • jorgeabustos Jorge Bustos (@jorgeabustos) reported

    @Steam All these people complaining lol I simply refreshed the page a couple time clicked and paid with no issues.

  • Stevenlv1990 VAUGHAN (Ghostbusters Joplin Unit) (@Stevenlv1990) reported

    @Consecr0 @Steam Absolutely, that is the same for me and they should fix the ques.

  • RealDazeOfWar Chris Brennan (@RealDazeOfWar) reported

    @SinnedNima @vg_watcher @Steam Oh I wasn’t worried about it leaving my cart. I knew it wasn’t going anywhere. I was just frustrated it wouldn’t go through because the reserve line was just getting longer. I got it after about another half hour. Steam always has issues any time there’s a sale or something big.

  • ZombieOfun Alexander Scorza (@ZombieOfun) reported

    @calebvw @Steam Same here. I had errors for 2 straight hours despite being there at 10am PDT. This is a load of barnacles

  • Draesk Performative Normality (@Draesk) reported

    @film_girl @Steam I have 3k titles on Steam and I don't see this being an issue warranting anger? Folk aren't owed a reservation, and this has no negative impact on our existing libraries... Valve haven't done us *****. It's a booking system getting overloaded, which is hardly unique to Steam.

  • C_Austin_Cox Austin Cox (@C_Austin_Cox) reported

    @JohnSheafferSr @Steam @TheAtari_VCS This tweet makes me concerned there's "a lot of💩" when I was just about to go pick one up. Now I'm going to hold off. Hold no ideas there were problems getting Steam on the VCS. But if others have problems, this makes me wonder if I would too. Probably best to hold off then.

  • linkbtwnscoots 🔗↔Scoots (@linkbtwnscoots) reported

    @Steam @valvesoftware Able to reserve the base model w/o any issue. Great to see this kind of hardware on the market. Its vital in creating a competitive ecosystem for mobile gaming. Sorry 4 all who had trouble. Just goes 2 show how long people have been waiting 4 a product like this.

  • Bantu_Gaming Bantu Jayy (aka Thee Braided Bantu) (@Bantu_Gaming) reported

    @OatMegaPlus @Steam Look at the photos I contacted customer service to complain, then they told me that info and it worked this morning! Good luck!

  • epic___username epicusername (@epic___username) reported

    @Steam extremely frustrated... errors told me to "Try Again"... I try again, and I get a purchase cooldown! I am now 6 months behind everyone else in line because of YOUR SYSTEM. I signed onto Steam at EXACTLY 1PM and couldn't reserve until HOURS LATER... FIX THIS!!!

  • MaddogRg Dustin Madison (@MaddogRg) reported

    @zen_n22 @CMDRArchadder @Steam And where are you getting that from? Because I would assume steam will have a "void if broken" seal on the inside of the unit if you were to open it up and mod/change hardware.

  • stinkybald stinkybald (@stinkybald) reported

    @Steam fix your cs servers ****** garbage people

  • angel220687 angel220687 (@angel220687) reported

    @GrlyGoth @calebvw @Steam yeah i agree, it was the only thing i was excited for in a long time, though i did expect some issues, i didn’t anticipate it to be as bad , glad you got one though sorry it’s gonna be delayed, just think at least you got one

  • 064_55430_681 Prince Eden (@064_55430_681) reported

    @Steam I get a message "There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance." everytime I try to make a reserve and still not be able to make the reserve from yesterday. Please help. 😩😩

  • billy_azevedo BillyAzevedo (@billy_azevedo) reported

    @Non_Exists @TheRealMastet2 @Steam Hope you're right! Are u having the same issue?

  • 187gambino Dylan (@187gambino) reported

    @pse7entma @FloydtheRover @Steam "Stop bitching" Mine still hasn't gone through. They ****** up. I even got an Email saying There was an error with a recent Steam purchase. We've saved your cart (including discounts) for 72 hours so you can attempt your purchase again. And now it wont pay unless its a game.

  • Hoodlum_Stuff David (@Hoodlum_Stuff) reported

    @CuddlePotato @Steam This just sounds like first world problems

  • MaddogRg Dustin Madison (@MaddogRg) reported

    @Steam your #steamdeck is cool. But my biggest issue is 512GB max storage? That isn't even enough for all the Triple AAA games I play on my Steam Account. I am betting people would Love to see some options to increase storage to maybe 2TB? Could allow upgrades to specific parts?

  • ProfessorFessor Professor Fessor (@ProfessorFessor) reported

    @LadyT0pHat @Steam This is why I’m glad I started the game in the third round of beta before the Steam version was ever a thing. I remember people having issues with third party mods back in the day on the Steam version as well.

  • valycwp Valentin 🔥 (@valycwp) reported

    @Steam Fix TF2

  • GrlyGoth Shay Law (@GrlyGoth) reported

    @angel220687 @calebvw @Steam At least you only dealt with the errors for about 25 minutes. I was dealing with the errors for almost an hour and a half to now be placed in Q2. Glad you didn't suffer as much though. I'm just upset they screw the lot of us in general.

  • DjkaywiseFans DjkaywiseFanPage (@DjkaywiseFans) reported

    @Steam hello Please I need help Having steam card issues here

  • OkeDoke19915124 OkeDoke (@OkeDoke19915124) reported

    @Rudemmon @Steam SD cards are alot slower which means potential performance problems in game and slower load times in general. In comparison some of the fastest microSD cards only go up to 200MB/s read 200MB/s write whereas a decent gen 4 NVME can do 4000MB/s read 2000MB/s write. Big difference.

  • littlemorte Paulette (@littlemorte) reported

    @PetePugger @Steam Yeah, just sucks that my purchase for the first batch had an error and I had to repurchase for a later date

  • John86569600 John (@John86569600) reported

    @Steam hello please am having problem loading my steam card help please

  • El_cientfico El_científico (@El_cientfico) reported

    @Steam @afroninja180 Hey that's not very ergonomic, fix that

  • dcracy3 AndrewB (Elsie) (@dcracy3) reported

    @Barnacules @Steam Trouble is as with other hardware, they have a track record of dropping it very quickly.

  • RobsGogs Robert Gogloza (@RobsGogs) reported

    @CaseyExplosion @valvesoftware @Steam what is Valve's incentive here? the economics of this thing baffle me anyway, but "getting the money, but not have people get their hands and have problems with it" sounds like a win/win

  • Coatlursa Mint Fish (@Coatlursa) reported

    Is there any way to stop that livestream broadcast thing from popping up in store pages on @Steam ? Always ends up lagging my potato internet/computer with it autoplaying.