Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike screenshot 1Counter-Strike screenshot 2
ActionFPSMultiplayerShooterClassicTeam-Based

Counter-Strike

Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.

Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Franchise
Release date
Nov 1, 2000
Store page updated
Apr 23, 2025
Price
$9.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

90.9/ 100

Based on 309 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 664
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 261,774
“engaging, memorable experience, psychological depth”
У меня больше 3000 часов в Counter-Strike на другом аккаунте. И за всё это время я понял одну вещь: Counter-Strike — это не шутер. Это психическое состояние. Ни одна другая игра не способна превратить обычного человека в существо, которое может пять часов подряд слушать одни и те же шаги на Dust2 и при этом каждый раз реагировать так, будто слышит их впервые в жизни. Самая странная катка за все эти годы случилась глубокой ночью. Это был обычный Mirage. Пятый матч подряд. Все уже были уставшие. В нашей команде был человек с ником «Chair». Он вообще почти не разговаривал. Только иногда тяжело вз

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.83
Strategy +4.24
“limitless skill ceiling with strafing, bunny hopping, recoil control, grenade lineups” (16)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+3.86

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

World +3.86

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+3.22

Not enough data — only 9% of reviews mention this.

Volume +2.06

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+0.66
Visuals -0.84
“graphics are poor and unpleasant to look at” (19)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+2.60
Community +1.23
“underground community where reputation and skill mattered more than cosmetics” (15)

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-0.55
Monetization +1.58

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-0.68
Performance +2.67

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Nov 2010Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 651 reviews, peak 32/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 309 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English30%
  • Russian21%
  • Spanish16%
  • Portuguese14%
  • Chinese7%
  • Turkish6%
  • Other6%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

Recommended games

Was this analysis useful?

🔒 Read the reviews behind this

All 25 indicators, 3-month and 6-month trends, and per-language breakdowns — in the dashboard.

Learn more

Comments 0

Played Counter-Strike? Agree with the score, or think we missed something? Tell other players.

Accounts are not open yet — comments and voting are coming soon.