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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 02/27/2026 10:35

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. Sign in (55%)

    Sign in (55%)

  2. Online Play (23%)

    Online Play (23%)

  3. Glitches (17%)

    Glitches (17%)

  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
United StatesBremerton Game Crash
SwitzerlandVevey Sign in
United KingdomRotherham Sign in
FranceSaint-Marcel Online Play
FranceCraon Matchmaking
United KingdomLiverpool Online Play
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Steam Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • SecretTrashlyn Ash hugs goth 🦈s & 🐈s (@SecretTrashlyn) reported

    Oi! @steam @Steam_Support your client update has broken pretty much every game that uses @EpicGames Easy Anticheat making them not load/start. Please can you rollback or fix the update at least, whatever the quickest option.

  • XxstangsrockxX Steph (@XxstangsrockxX) reported

    @Steam Sooooo when is the update going to be to fix the anti-cheat that won't allow people to play any of their games??????

  • CRGs_ CrazyRassGamesStudios 🎮 | Jackson (@CRGs_) reported

    @Steam_Support @Steam There Is An issue With Your New Update.. the Issue is within the "steamclient64.dll" And Easy Anti Cheat Is Blocking it which Hinders Your Customers From Playing A lot Of Games That Uses Easy anti cheat. Please Fix this Issues ASAP!!

  • _jdelightful the phantom of the sky. 👻 (@_jdelightful) reported

    @Steam any updates on what the problem is with eac or??

  • Meadest_Viking Ricknar (@Meadest_Viking) reported

    @playnewworld @Steam Not sure if you guys know or not, but there's a bunch of us who can't get into the game because of an error. Started about 1 hour ago, after a steam app update. "Steam must be running to play this game. Make sure you are logged into steam, then try again."

  • dashiznit12369 dashiznit123 (@dashiznit12369) reported

    @Steam fix whatever is broken!

  • dustin_ti SPCY DustinTi | Unofficially GamePass Sponsored (@dustin_ti) reported

    @Steam_Support @Steam Please fix your update. EAC is broken.

  • whyAshes Ashes (@whyAshes) reported

    @playnewworld @Steam FOUND A FIX!!!! secret stream live in a few

  • PlayItSafe7 PlayItSafe7 TTV (@PlayItSafe7) reported

    @Steam fix your app please

  • keryilias Keryilias (@keryilias) reported

    @Steam hey new world isn't working due to the anti cheat error this is bs plz fix

  • RakwaXD pxɐʍʞɐᴚ (@RakwaXD) reported

    @Steam your update broke quite a few people who can't play now due to the update. I had to restore my computer to an earlier backup and block Steam from updating to play until you fix the update.

  • zXanza Xanza (@zXanza) reported

    Please fix your client @Steam. Just wanted to play some apex after a long week and your ****** update broke easy anti cheat.

  • bumblebeesrdead 🐝♊️ (@bumblebeesrdead) reported

    @Steam Yo, i just wanna get hooked by the plague in DBD can you fix your **** already?

  • VzzChely Saydejun (@VzzChely) reported

    @Steam I just wanna play, can you fix your error PLEASE

  • 80sdudegotcha Someone you dont know (@80sdudegotcha) reported

    @Steam @playnewworld love that both steam and new world updated and now I cant play New World because I get an unrecoverable error and a DLL error. Awesome!

  • withnowealth No Wealth (@withnowealth) reported

    Fix yourself @Steam

  • TeeshaReq TS (@TeeshaReq) reported

    @Steam I can’t open new world because my steam isn’t working. I’ve tried re installing it but it’s still giving me the same error message

  • SkySendpie SkySendpie (@SkySendpie) reported

    Anyone else getting "Untrusted" steam error when opening apex? @Steam @PlayApex #Steam #ApexLegends #playapex

  • SheepB0T SheepB0T (@SheepB0T) reported

    Hey @playnewworld , are you aware your anti-cheat software is detecting @Steam as a malicious/hack application and blocking us from getting back in because Sean is open; #NewWorld requires Steam to run. Can you please fix this so we can get back to playing?

  • LoisTheBlurLane Lois Lane (@LoisTheBlurLane) reported

    @Steam if you're not going to fix the problem with EAC blocking games from launching.... could someone at least acknowledge that theres been a problem going on for hours??? do you fix it? does EAC fix it ... idk i just play the games man, idk how this works, but the silence is not coo'

  • So_Truculent Bower Power (@So_Truculent) reported

    this @steam easy anticheat patch fail is way more disruptive to my life than the facebook outage. @playnewworld

  • rory_masterson Rory Masterson (@rory_masterson) reported

    @Steam ayo can we get an ETA on the easyanticheat fix?

  • A_Woodard24 Alex (@A_Woodard24) reported

    @Steam @playnewworld fix your ****

  • gapatron666 Richard Gapington (@gapatron666) reported

    @Steam all games using easy anticheat wont run, how can I fix it?

  • JuliaKuhlenbeck Julia Kuhlenbeck (@JuliaKuhlenbeck) reported

    @Steam Fix your stuff steam I’m trying to play new worlddddd

  • ricefried__ _ricemane (@ricefried__) reported

    @PlayApex @Steam fix your game mane, I’m tryna tap strafe

  • patswalee Patsy (@patswalee) reported

    @SheepB0T @playnewworld @Steam Getting this same error, i am super frustrated

  • AleaInUnderland Alea May (@AleaInUnderland) reported

    Is @Steam not working for anyone else atm? I worked so hard on my costume for today and wanted to play dbd so bad but my computer is opening everything but steam which is saying it can't connect to network???

  • _jomos_ Jonathan aka Siran (@_jomos_) reported

    @amazongames @EpicGames @Steam can y’all please fix the issue with easy anti cheat falsely mistrusting a steam file??? I finally had some time to play New World tonight and I can’t get past a single splash screen. Really frustrating.

  • dog_giraffe Dog Giraffe (@dog_giraffe) reported

    @Steam FIX YOUR EAC. LET US KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON