Christmas Eve games crushed as Steam goes offline

Your Christmas Eve gaming session might not go as planned. Online gaming center Steam fell on Wednesday. Around 1:30 p.m. PT, the Steam store page was accessible again, so services appeared to be coming back online.

The Steam outage appears to have started mid-afternoon ET, according to Downdetector, which monitors site outages. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)

A Steam representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

As of midday PT as of Wednesday, Steam’s official X and Bluesky accounts had not posted anything about the outage.

Players have certainly noticed. “Go down with steam, go down with steam!!!” » wrote one Bluesky user.

Others commented on the poor timing just as players were enjoying their time off or receiving gaming gifts. “‘You received a gift on Steam!’ oh cool “Steam is down” oh cool, ” wrote another Bluesky user.