What to check
- Steam is updating the game. Launch-day patches are common; let it finish.
- Steam itself. A Steam-wide outage blocks launches and cloud saves — check the status site linked above.
- Verify game files in Steam → Properties → Installed Files.
- Report it. Auroch’s FAQ links a bug-report form; the Steam forum has a pinned FAQ thread.
The player count comes from the official Steam API through our own cached endpoint. If the API doesn’t answer, the card says so.