Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
BANGER · Shooter · 2004
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.8h
- Value
- $2.63/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 84% over the last 30 days against 92% all-time.
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Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in June 2018. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 6 in the 8 years tracked, about 20 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero ($9.99, scores 86) 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 $17.55. It costs $9.99.
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 84 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 687 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 738 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.8 hours. Doing everything runs 108, 29 times as long.
Players
83 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/100/counter-strike-condition-zeroThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 23.
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