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Is Epic Games down?
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina
https://epicgames.com ↗Mapped components are operational in the latest status update; individual experiences can vary.
Service disruption activity for Epic Games
Last 24 hoursObserved disruption signals combine available incidents, recorded reports, website checks, and emerging problem patterns. A low score does not guarantee that every feature is working.
Latest observation: 2026-11-08 18:16:28 UTC. Refreshes automatically while this page is visible.
No user-submitted outage reports in the last 24 hours.
Epic Games outage history
2025–2026Daily history over the past 12 months. Select a day for its evidence.
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How to read this calendar
Dates use New York time (America/New_York). Green means no issues observed with sufficient monitoring coverage; it does not guarantee uninterrupted uptime. Pink includes official incidents, repeated website failures, or corroborated user reports. Gray days are unknown. Activity estimates alone do not turn a day pink. Today’s result can change.
Epic Games website uptime and response time
Automated access restricted HTTP 403. Last checked 2026-11-08 18:14:43 UTC.
Checked address: https://epicgames.com/
DNS lookup: 22 ms · TCP connection: 6 ms · TLS handshake: 14 ms. Certificate expires 2026-12-14; trusted connection: yes.
Unknown
Successful website checks (24h)
0 successful / 0 measurable checks
Unknown
Median response time
Unknown
95th percentile response time
0 failed checks; 22 restricted checks. Restricted checks are excluded from the success rate. Lines connect recorded samples across gaps; availability between checks is unknown. Response time measures receipt of HTTP headers, not full page load. Checks run from one US monitoring server and do not verify sign-in, API, or app features. These sampled results are separate from down reports and estimated activity.
Evidence behind the status
Provider reports operational. Mapped components are operational in the latest status update; individual experiences can vary.
Website checks and estimated activity have independent update times. Refer to each section for its latest observation.
These measurements describe different things. A reachable homepage can coexist with login or API failures. Missing evidence stays unknown.
Official component status
Epic Games official status · fetched 2026-11-08 18:16:28 UTC
92 mapped components · 0 reporting problems
| Component | Provider status |
|---|---|
| Fortnite | operational |
| Website | operational |
| Login | operational |
| Login | operational |
| Website/Portal | operational |
| Drive | operational |
| UE Marketplace | operational |
| Forums | operational |
| Login | operational |
| Login | operational |
| Matchmaking | operational |
| Matchmaking | operational |
| Playing | operational |
| Epic Account Services - Authentication | operational |
| Game Services | operational |
| Website | operational |
| New Applications | operational |
| Pixel Streaming | operational |
| Download/Installation | operational |
| Website | operational |
| Matchmaking | operational |
| LEGO Fortnite | operational |
| Creating | operational |
| Game Services - Authentication | operational |
| Login | operational |
| Achievements | operational |
| Game Services | operational |
| 1.0 - 2.0 Account Migration | operational |
| Purchasing/Refunding | operational |
| Game Services | operational |
| Voice Chat | operational |
| Fortnite Festival | operational |
| Publishing | operational |
| Parties, Friends, and Messaging | operational |
| Matchmaking | operational |
| Payment Process | operational |
| Matchmaking | operational |
| Anti-cheat | operational |
| Parties, Friends, and Messaging | operational |
| Epic Wallet | operational |
| Voice Chat | operational |
| Rocket League | operational |
| Stats and Leaderboards | operational |
| Store Browsing | operational |
| Creator Analytics | operational |
| Stats & Leaderboards | operational |
| Item Shop | operational |
| Custom Invites | operational |
| Developer Portal | operational |
| Item Shop | operational |
| Rocket League Sideswipe | operational |
| Item Shop | operational |
| Website | operational |
| Publishing Tools | operational |
| Matchmaking | operational |
| Parties, Friends, and Messaging | operational |
| Parties, Friends, and Messaging | operational |
| Fall Guys | operational |
| Game Services | operational |
| Achievements | operational |
| Epic Text Chat | operational |
| Stats and Leaderboards | operational |
| Epic Games Store | operational |
| Voice Chat | operational |
| Friends | operational |
| Game Details | operational |
| Item Shop | operational |
| Epic Online Services | operational |
| Leaderboards | operational |
| Lobbies | operational |
| Fortnite Crew | operational |
| Support-A-Creator | operational |
| Sessions | operational |
| Unreal Engine | operational |
| Peer-to-Peer (P2P) | operational |
| UEFN | operational |
| Player Data Storage | operational |
| Epic Games Website | operational |
| Twinmotion Cloud | operational |
| Presence | operational |
| Progression Snapshot | operational |
| Epic Games Store Ecommerce | operational |
| Fab | operational |
| MetaHuman Creator | operational |
| Sanctions | operational |
| Social Overlay | operational |
| Quixel | operational |
| Stats | operational |
| RealityScan | operational |
| Title Storage | operational |
| Matchmaking | operational |
| Voice | operational |
Official incident timeline
Epic Games Store iOS Issue · resolved · 2026-11-03T23:04:21.127Z
Product match: components.
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- · resolved
This issue has been resolved and all impacted games are now available again.
- · investigating
Several games - including Rocket League Sideswipe and Fall Guys - are temporarily unavailable on Epic Games Store for iOS while we work to resolve an issue.
EOS Sessions and Lobbies · resolved · 2026-10-16T23:17:53.971Z
Product match: components.
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- · resolved
This incident has been resolved.
- · identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- · investigating
Multiplayer sessions and lobbies may experience brief instability while we restart services to correct an issue. This should be back online and operational momentarily.
Trader Verification outage · resolved · 2026-09-18T14:17:18.482Z
Product match: components.
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- · resolved
This incident has been resolved.
- · investigating
The Trader Verification process is currently broken and is impacting EGS Dev Portal and FAB.
Matchmaking issues in Fortnite · resolved · 2026-09-17T17:39:33.221Z
Product match: components.
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- · resolved
This incident has been resolved.
- · monitoring
The matchmaking issues are being resolved, and players should now be able to get into matches. If you're still experiencing an issue, try requeuing again.
Fortnite Login Issues on Xbox · resolved · 2026-09-16T15:43:02.446Z
Product match: components.
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- · resolved
Fortnite login issues affecting players on Xbox have been resolved. As part of the fix, you may be prompted to redownload the game before jumping back in.
- · investigating
We're investigating an issue that is preventing players on Xbox from logging into Fortnite. We will let you know as soon as this is resolved.
Fortnite Login Issues on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 · resolved · 2026-08-28T14:32:33.776Z
Product match: components.
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- · resolved
Login services on PlayStation 4 and 5 have returned to normal.
- · investigating
We're investigating an issue that may prevent players from logging into Fortnite on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. We'll provide an update once we have more information.
Fab Plugin Issue · resolved · 2026-08-27T13:36:08.115Z
Product match: components.
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- · resolved
This incident has been resolved.
- · investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- · investigating
Epic Games Launcher users may not see Fab plugins they have installed in their Launcher. We're working to resolve this and will provide an update this is fixed.
Support-A-Creator Website Down · resolved · 2026-08-27T09:44:34.886Z
Product match: components.
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- · resolved
The Support-A-Creator website has been restored.
- · monitoring
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- · monitoring
The Support-A-Creator website has been restored and we are monitoring.
- · investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- · investigating
We are currently investigating an issue with http://sac.epicgames.com.
Recovery tracker
No recent recovery can be established from available evidence.
0 consecutive successful checks within the last 30 minutes. These checks measure the public website; they cannot establish recovery of every feature.
Slowdown detection
More successful checks are needed to establish a response-time baseline.
Recent median: unknown · Earlier median: unknown. Flags require at least 3 recent and 5 earlier checks, more than twice the baseline, and at least 500 ms extra latency. Slowness alone does not identify server load as the cause.
Emerging down-report signals
No recent emerging problem patterns are available for this service.
Emerging problem patterns can persist after an incident and do not measure report counts or prove an outage.
Is it down in your region?
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Results are reused for 15 minutes. Shared free allowance: up to 60 tests per hour. A successful website check does not verify authenticated app or API functions.
Infrastructure incident context
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No active incidents recorded.
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About Epic Games status on Iszdown
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland. Following his first commercial video game release, ZZT, the company became Epic MegaGames, Inc. in early 1992 and brought on Mark Rein, who is the company's vice president to date. Moving their headquarters to Cary in 1999, the studio's name was simplified to Epic Games. Epic Games develops the Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine which also powers their internally developed video games, such as Fortnite and the Unreal, Gears of War and Infinity Blade series. In 2014, Unreal Engine was named the "most successful videogame engine" by Guinness World Records.
This page combines the available Epic Games report activity, official product status, public website measurements, and daily history. Each measurement has its own observation time. A search spike alone does not confirm downtime, and a reachable website does not establish that sign-in or every product feature works.
92 product-matched official components are listed above. Latest public website measurement: 2026-11-08T18:14:43.000Z.
Visit the official Epic Games website · Official provider status · How it works
What to check when Epic Games is not working
These are troubleshooting suggestions, not a list of currently reported problems.
Epic Games will not open
Compare your usual browser or app with a private browser window, then try another network if available. Save unsent work first. A difference between networks can help separate a local connection problem from a wider disruption.
Epic Games is slow or only one feature fails
Record the affected action, exact error, and time. Compare the website response measurements with any official component incidents; loading a homepage does not test every feature.
Website troubleshooting guide · Sign-in problems · API errors and timeouts
Include the time, affected feature, and error message when contacting official support. Keep passwords, payment information, session cookies, and access tokens private.
Recent Epic Games outage history
Latest available product-matched official incidents in the calendar’s archive. Times below use UTC. Duration is the provider’s recorded incident window, not a measurement of impact on every user.
| Incident | Started (UTC) | Recorded duration | Last collected status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epic Games Store iOS Issue | 5814 min | resolved | |
| EOS Sessions and Lobbies | 57 min | resolved | |
| Matchmaking issues in Fortnite | 23 min | resolved | |
| Trader Verification outage | 2467 min | resolved | |
| Fortnite Login Issues on Xbox | 34 min | resolved | |
| Fortnite Login Issues on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 | 38 min | resolved | |
| Fab Plugin Issue | 11129 min | resolved | |
| Error When Installing or Updating on Epic Games Store | 4351 min | resolved |
Frequently asked questions about Epic Games
Is Epic Games down right now?
Provider reports operational. Mapped components are operational in the latest status update; individual experiences can vary. This page was assembled at 2026-11-08T18:22:29.000Z.
How many Epic Games outage reports are there today?
The displayed rolling 24-hour window contains 0 recorded reports, from 2026-11-07T18:20:00.000Z to 2026-11-08T18:20:00.000Z. This is not a calendar-day total or a count of affected people. Estimated activity is shown separately as an estimate.
Why does Epic Games show operational when it is not working for me?
An official operational status can coexist with a local network issue, account problem, or feature-specific incident. Compare the mapped components, recent incident updates, and regional diagnostic on this page. Automated website checks test public access, not your signed-in session or every Epic Games feature.
When was Epic Games status last updated?
The latest status observation was 2026-11-08T18:16:28.000Z. Only matched product components and incidents are shown. The assessment is recent.
Has Epic Games had outages before?
The daily calendar links available incident evidence and retains daily monitoring summaries. Pink marks service issues, green requires sufficient observations with no issues observed, and gray means insufficient coverage. The collected history is incomplete and is not a lifetime outage count or a guarantee of uninterrupted uptime.
How do I follow Epic Games or report a problem?
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