Counter-Strike: Source
BANGER · Shooter · 2004
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.16/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 194,080
- Critics
- 88 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 63.2h
- To 100%
- 374.3h 5.9x the story
- Achievements
- 147
Price and sales
- Sales
- 50 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2019
- Sale every
- 91d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,386 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
63% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
50 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Counter-Strike 2 (free, scores 64) and Counter-Strike ($9.99, scores 96).
More about Counter-Strike: Source
88 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 18,775 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
63.2 hours to finish it, 374 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.9 times the campaign.
The rating rests on 194,080 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
• if to compare this to other main CS games, this is the best balance between 1.6 and GO (or CS2) • good for casuals and easy to play • good for achievement hunting or grinding • gameplay stats that you can keep or reset back to zero • good optimization for low end pc (still playable on ultra potato pc just need to tweak some configs) • fun to play with bots and their interaction to the map environment and voice...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Great game! Other than being flooded with fake russian servers, siphon through and you shall find something worthwhile. Honorable mentions are Texas Arlington Bots, Illegal Adaptive Bots & Midnight Gamers (Dallas & Chicago)
FAKE SERVERS UNPLAYABLE. fake servers download malware dont play on community servers.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
Minimum specs
Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
Counter-Strike: Source scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/240/counter-strike-sourceReviews 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 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.