Your Christmas Eve gaming session might not have gone as planned. Online gaming hub Steam went down on Wednesday. As of late Wednesday night ET, it seemed to have returned.

The Steam outage appeared to begin mid-afternoon Eastern time on Dec. 24, according to Downdetector, which monitors site outages. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)

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

Steam's official X and Bluesky accounts did not post anything about the outage. But gamers certainly noticed. "Steam down, Steam down!!!" wrote one Bluesky user.

Others commented on the bad timing of the outage, as it coincided with gamers enjoying time off or receiving gaming gifts. "'You got a gift on Steam!' oh cool 'Steam is down' oh cool," wrote another Bluesky user.