Steam reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

97% of 259,500 reviews

Critic scores

Metacritic

Generally favorable

Aggregated from professional reviewers. OpenCritic and others are on the roadmap.

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COUNTER-STRIKE

Counter-Strike has 5,999 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 13,788 and its all-time peak is 14,599. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · Valve2000

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.

Up 55% in the last 24h. Something brought players back.
Currently at 41% of the all-time peak of 14,599 players.
Last updated 3 years ago: December 12, 2023 Update.

Playing now

5,999

24h peak

13,788

24h change

▲ 55.4%

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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

6.00K

24h peak

13.8K

All-time

14.6K

TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS

Watching now

15.9K

Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo

No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.