Counter-Strike 2
Fair · Multiplayer · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 9,960,408
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Monetization, Reviews
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 141h
- To 100%
- 709h 5.0x the story
- Achievements
- 1
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,191,330 now
- Recent reviews
- 79% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Its score puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Counter-Strike ($9.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (free, scores 55).
It is still busy. 1.2M players were online when we last checked, on Nov 6, 14:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks. Free to start. PCGamingWiki lists loot boxes in it, the aggressive kind of in-app purchase.
More about Counter-Strike 2
Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 66,938 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 1 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 141 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 709, 5.0 times as much.
The rating rests on 9,960,408 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
The state in which this game is right now is actually crazy. You can not play any mode without constantly playing against cheaters or literal bots with hacks. No point playing this anymore
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
let's maybe work on anti-cheat instead of working on hatching chickens in a FPS game
better than valorant in terms of gameplay, but val has better anti hack system. pls valve it's been over a decade
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About the game
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 85 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Counter-Strike 2 scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/730/counter-strike-2Reviews 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 Nov 3. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.