

Check if the gaming platform is up and running again.

So, if it’s Tuesday and Steam stopped working, close the program and restart your computer. The good news is that maintenance work usually starts at 7 PM EST or 4 PM PT and doesn’t take more than 10 minutes to complete. Steam’s servers undergo scheduled maintenance every Tuesday. People buy discounted games and in-game items or offer Steam gifts to their friends.Īs a result, everybody’s rushing to Steam servers to get their hands on the time-limited offers and buy games for themselves or their friends. During summer and winter sales, Steam servers get overloaded by the huge number of user requests. There are periods when Steam outages are more frequent than usual.

