Activity briefingSummary of recorded signals
SteamWatch briefingSummary of recorded signals

Counter-Strike 2 Activity Briefing

Counter-Strike 2 has an impressive player count and recent updates, with a slight decline in daily reviews.

  • Current player count is 1,049,015, reflecting a significant increase of approximately 43.8% over the last six hours.
  • The game holds 9,932,610 total Steam reviews, with an 85.8% positive rating.
  • Daily review count has decreased by about 49.6% from the previous day, with 1,215 reviews recorded.
  • No recent DLC has been released, and the game remains free with no pricing changes.
  • A recent update on 14th October included demo/replay viewer improvements and several stability enhancements.
Steam player data · App 730

Counter-Strike 2

View on Steam ↗Updated 22 Oct · 01:38 UTC
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  • Multi-player
  • Cross-Platform Multiplayer
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Workshop
  • In-App Purchases
  • Adjustable Text Size
  • Camera Comfort
Steam

Store data

UK price
Free
US price
Free
Positive reviews
86%
Total reviews
9,935,895
Release date
21 Aug, 2012
Concurrent players459,629Most recent successful sample
Today's peak506,32010/144 samples
Tracked peak1,452,036Highest retained daily peak
Steam rating86%9,935,895 reviews
Steam metadata

Game information

Details supplied by the Steam store
App ID
730
App type
Game
Developer
Valve ↗
Publisher
Valve ↗
Supported systems
Windows · Linux
Genres
Action, Free To Play
Release date
21 Aug, 2012
Last player update
22 Oct · 01:38 UTC
Steam store data

System requirements

Supplied by the developer on Steam

Windows

Minimum
OS
Windows® 10
Processor
4 hardware CPU threads - Intel® Core™ i5 750 or higher
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
Video card must be 1 GB or more and should be a DirectX 11-compatible with support for Shader Model 5.0
DirectX
Version 11
Storage
85 GB available space

macOS

Minimum
OS
MacOS X 10.11 (El Capitan) or later
Processor
Intel Core Duo Processor (2GHz or better)
Memory
2 GB RAM
Graphics
ATI Radeon HD 2400 or better / NVIDIA 8600M or better
Storage
15 GB available space

Linux

Minimum
OS
Ubuntu 20.04
Processor
4 hardware CPU threads - Intel® Core™ i5 750 or higher
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
AMD GCN+ or NVIDIA Kepler+ with up-to-date Vulkan drivers. Support for VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library highly recommended.
Storage
85 GB available space
Sound Card
Highly recommended
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Player history

Concurrent players

Peak 1,265,137Average 793,558Latest 469,204
0316.3k632.6k948.9k1.3M21 Oct 2026, 02:00 UTC22 Oct 2026, 01:00 UTC

24-hour and 7-day views use hourly peaks from ten-minute samples. Longer views use retained daily peaks. Up to 24 recent event markers are shown per layer.

Selected outlets

Critic reviews

2 collected
Eurogamer80Counter-Strike 2 review - despite everything, it's still youPublished before SteamWatch began trackingPolygonCounter-Strike 2 pulls off a monumental taskPublished before SteamWatch began tracking
Twitch

Twitch stats

Awaiting the first Twitch sample.
Long-term history

Monthly players breakdown

Calculated from SteamWatch samples
MonthPeakGain% gainAverageAvg % gain
Last 30 days1,452,036+87,921+6.4%813,169+0.0%
October 20261,404,227-47,809-3.3%803,111-2.2%
September 20261,452,036——821,554—
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About this game

Description

Supplied by the Steam store

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.

A free upgrade to CS:GO, Counter Strike 2 marks the largest technical leap in Counter Strike’s history. Built on the Source 2 engine, Counter Strike 2 is modernized with realistic physically-based rendering, state of the art networking, and upgraded Community Workshop tools.

In addition to the classic objective-focused gameplay that Counter Strike pioneered in 1999, Counter Strike 2 features:

All-new CS Ratings with the updated Premier mode

Global and Regional leaderboards

Upgraded and overhauled maps

Game-changing dynamic smoke grenades

Tick-rate-independent gameplay

Redesigned visual effects and audio

All items from CS:GO moving forward to CS2

Steam gallery

Screenshots

19 available
Observed momentum

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