Counter-Strike
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2000
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99. Price from Oct 21.
- Cost per hour
- $0.39/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 262,572
- Critics
- 88 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Multiplayer
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 25.4h
- To 100%
- 774.8h 30.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 22 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2018
- Sale every
- 142d last June 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6,859 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 34% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
June 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Across all 22 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 20 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games that feel like it, Counter-Strike: Source ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Team Fortress Classic ($4.99, scores 71).
More about Counter-Strike
The press gave it 88; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 29,533 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 25.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 775, 31 times as much.
The rating rests on 262,572 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
No skins to chase. No battle passes. No unnecessary mechanics. Just pure skill, teamwork, map knowledge, and precise aim. Every round matters, every mistake is punished, and every clutch feels earned.
2 more reviews
When CS2 came out I left CS:GO searching for a better game, swapped the good old source engine and now newer source 2 engine for a timeless masterpiece of the ultimate goldsource engine. Switching to this game, I made the best gaming downgrade of my life. The game is purely simple, there are no lineups to overthink, no complex tactical sensory overload. This game genuinely forces me to play much more simpler and...
still fun, a better casual/community experience than cs2, at least there aint no bots farming cases lol
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.
Minimum specs
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Counter-Strike scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 21. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/10/counter-strikeReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.