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 5,209 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 10,363 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.

Solid daily community. Plenty of people to play with right now.
Currently at 39% of the all-time peak of 13,261 players.
Last updated 3 years ago: December 12, 2023 Update.

Playing now

5,209

24h peak

10,363

24h change

▲ 2.2%

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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

5.21K

24h peak

10.4K

All-time

13.3K

TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS

Watching now

25.6K

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.