Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

BANGER · Shooter · 2004

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

A BANGER at $9.99. Price from Oct 21.

Cost per hour▼
$2.56/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 5,456
Critics
65 players 27 higher
Genre rank
Top 3% Shooter

Recent reviews trending down: 82% over the last 30 days against 92% all-time.

Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.

Time and effort

Main story
3.9h
To 100%
101.8h 26.1x the story

Price and sales

Sales
6 on record
Typical cut
90% off
Steam low
$0.99 June 2018
Sale every
141d last July 2026
Other stores

Players and genre

Online
35 now
Recent reviews
82% 30 days
Cheaper than
46% of its genre
Better reviewed
88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in June 2018. Across all 6 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 20 weeks apart.

Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Counter-Strike ($9.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Day of Defeat: Source ($9.99, scores 82).

On this data it would still be a BANGER at $18.08.

More about Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

The press gave it 65; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 27-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Players rate it 92 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 82 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 692 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 742 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 3.9 hours. Doing everything runs 102, 26 times as long.

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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Replayability~23h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 3.9h main story
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.56/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds0 of 692 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

With its extensive Tour of Duty campaign, a near-limitless number of skirmish modes, updates and new content for Counter-Strike's award-winning multiplayer game play, plus over 12 bonus single player missions, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is a tremendous offering of single and multiplayer content.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero scores 86/100 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/100/counter-strike-condition-zero
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+27
Critics65
Players92
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 5,456 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperValve
PublisherValve
GenreShooter
Released2004
Players15.0Mowners, SteamSpy estimate