Steam Outage — Store, Community & Web API Down (Oct 7, 2025)
Updated: October 7, 2025 — developing.
Steam is experiencing a widespread outage affecting multiple services. Real-time status sites and press reports show:
- Steam Store: Offline — users cannot browse or make purchases.
- Steam Community: Down — profiles, friends, forums and market are inaccessible.
- Steam Web API: Offline — third-party apps and services are impacted.
- Some game APIs: Reports indicate problems with APIs for titles including Counter‑Strike 2 and Deadlock.
Scope and cause:
- The outage appears global and server-side. Valve has not posted an official cause or ETA for restoration.
- Speculation includes possible DDoS activity, but this is unconfirmed.
Where to check live status and coverage:
Impact: launching and playing already-installed single-player games may still work, but purchasing, social features, inventories, matchmaking and other online-dependent functions are unreliable or offline.
If you’re affected, please comment below with what specific features are failing (store, friends, matchmaking, inventory, etc.). We’ll update this post as new information arrives.
Sources: real-time status aggregators and multiple news outlets reporting on the outage. This post intentionally avoids reposting original site RSS links.