Is Steam down? Server faces second outage in 24 hours, Downdetector shows

Steam appeared to suffer a second major outage within 24 hours on Tuesday, December 16, as tens of thousands of users reported problems accessing the platform, according to Downdetector. The fresh disruption came less than a day after a widespread server failure on December 15 that left gamers unable to log in, load profiles or access community features.

By 3:30 pm PT, more than 41,000 users had flagged issues with Steam on Downdetector.com, a service that tracks outages using real-time user reports from multiple sources. The majority of complaints…