Counter-Strike: Source
BANGER · Shooter · 2004
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 63.2h
- Value
- $0.16/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Runs on Windows, Linux.
Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.
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
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was June 2019. 49 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 13 weeks.
Value 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).
88 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 18,745 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, 383 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.1 times the campaign.
It came out 22 years ago and 6.2K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
63% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
6,187 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
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Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Counter-Strike: Source scores 97/100 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/240/counter-strike-sourceThe 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 Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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