Counter-Strike: Source
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ActionShooterFPSMultiplayerTeam-BasedFirst-Person

Counter-Strike: Source

Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.

Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Franchise
—
Release date
Nov 1, 2004
Store page updated
Apr 23, 2025
Price
$9.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

87.4/ 100

Based on 379 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 610
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 96% of 193,281
“better game than Counter-Strike 2, unites players”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.47
Controls & feel +2.64
“movement feels smooth and gunplay is satisfying” (37)

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Story & World
+3.30

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

World +3.30

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Content Volume
+3.06
Volume +3.08

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Visuals & Sound
+2.51
Visuals +2.19
“physics and maps still feel amazing” (47)

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Multiplayer
+2.12
Community +0.96
“community interactions create memorable social experience” (25)
В Counter-Strike сейчас сформировалась отдельная каста тиммейтов. Мужики 30+ с пивным пузом и банкой светлого у микрофона. Заходишь в катку, а там стабильно три типа персонажей. Первые, имея счёт 2-15, авторитетно учат тебя жизни, рассказывают, куда кидать смоки и как правильно зажимать с калаша. Вторые используют голосовой чат как сеанс бесплатной психотерапии: бесконечно ноют про свои проблемы, тяжелую смену на заводе, пинг и то, как их всё задолбало. Третьи врубают режим философа и на экономическом раунде начинают масштабно размышлять о геополитике и устройстве Вселенной. Играть с ними нево

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Fairness
-0.50
Monetization +0.69

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Tech & Ops
-0.81
Performance +3.24

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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
80%85%90%95%100%
Oct 2010Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 589 reviews, peak 31/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 379 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English32%
  • Russian26%
  • Spanish13%
  • Portuguese11%
  • Chinese8%
  • Turkish3%
  • Other7%

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

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