How long is Steam maintenance?

In what seems to be an outage emerged to choke the gaming industry, the popular video gaming platform Steam has reportedly been undergoing maintenance for the past few hours. 

Steam maintenance status

In light of reports and complaints being lodged at outage-detecting platforms, the reported and regular maintenance on Steam has turned the platform irresponsive and non-functional, leading to connection and login failure.

The ongoing maintenance is said to be a weekly happening scheduled to take place every Tuesday for less than an hour between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. UTC. This affects the server of almost every multiplayer game where players are required to stay online with a good internet connection.

Steam server maintenance extended on Tuesday

Although the platform announced on X (then called Twitter) that the Steam connection manager server was almost fully stable, as depicted in a tweet embedded above, avid Steam gamers were found lamenting the extended maintenance downtime.

If you too have been encountering connection errors since the above-mentioned timeframe, then bear in mind that Steam's weekly maintenance is to blame which might have taken longer than usual to complete.

To stay tuned with the current status of the Steam server maintenance, head to the official website of the game distribution company.