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 11,020 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 11,420 and its all-time peak is 13,261. 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.

Strong daily player base. Matchmaking and servers will be lively.
Currently at 83% of the all-time peak of 13,261 players.
Last updated 3 years ago: December 12, 2023 Update.

Playing now

11,020

24h peak

11,420

24h change

▲ 4.5%

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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

11.0K

24h peak

11.4K

All-time

13.3K

TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS

Watching now

139.1K

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.