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
- 91% positive
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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
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in November 2017. It has been discounted 50 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 13 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 13 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Left 4 Dead ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Counter-Strike: Condition Zero ($9.99, scores 85).
The math says it holds its tier up to $17.65, and you are being asked for $9.99.
65 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 8,140 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
3.8 hours to finish it, 108 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 29 times the campaign.
Players
276 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
I love Valve's games but why tf is the single player such a drag, it's just aimbot bots vs a team of lobotomised bots and you to carry them. It gets annoying and boring quickly. Go play counter strike source instead.
Before playing this game, I was a soft, submissive, homosexual furry femboy, now I still am. Thank you Valve Administration -w-
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero scores 86/100 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/80/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 24.
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