Hello,

we are sorry for the trouble you are having with the game.

One of the possible reasons for this message is running Steam as an administrator and starting Launcher as a regular user. If this situation occurs, Launcher may display a "Updates unavailable - Steam is not running" message in its status.

Possible solutions:

Run the game from Steam client by clicking on the Play button (not from a shortcut nor directly from an executable).
Exit Steam and run as a regular user (instead of running it as an administrator).
Run the game or the Launcher from a shortcut or from an executable as an administrator.
Restart Steam.
Restart the computer.

Thank you