Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

BANGER · Shooter · 2004

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

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 hour▼
$2.63/hr
ReviewsS
91% of 28,505
Critics
65 players 26 higher
Genre rank
Top 3% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
3.8h
To 100%
108.3h 28.5x the story

Price and sales

Sales
51 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$0.99 November 2017
Sale every
91d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
322 now
Recent reviews
89% 30 days
Cheaper than
46% of its genre
Better reviewed
88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 51 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 3 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 Day of Defeat: Source ($9.99, scores 82).

The math says it holds its tier up to $17.77, and you are being asked for $9.99.

More about Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

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.

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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Replayability~23h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 3.8h main story
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.63/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds4 of 799 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

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.
Yoru_Yoru1313Not recommendedafter 2.3h10 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Before playing this game, I was a soft, submissive, homosexual furry femboy, now I still am. Thank you Valve Administration -w-
KosmoMolotovNot recommendedafter 1.3hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero scores 86/100 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/80/counter-strike-condition-zero
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Reviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+26
Critics65
Players91
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 28,505 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperValve
PublisherValve
GenreShooter
Released2004
Players7.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate