Nostalgia and childhood memories
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“CS 1.6 had something special, something you rarely find in games today.”
Steam review · 563.4 h played ↗
Counter-Strike
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 97%Valve2000FPS · Shooter · Action
The verdict
A legendary, simple, skill-based tactical shooter with great movement and gunplay, now mostly nostalgia and community servers. Skip it if you want matchmaking, bots, or clean servers.
Great for
Nostalgic veterans and fans of pure aim-and-teamwork shooters who enjoy community servers and mods
Main risk
Server browser full of fake, modded, VIP-laden or cheater-filled servers, with no bots or matchmaking
What players love
Pure skill-based gunplay without gimmicks
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“Recoil patterns you can actually learn, no gimmicks, no ultimates, just aim and positioning”
Steam review · 36616.9 h played ↗
Fun mods and game modes
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“You have the classics like surf, gungame, zombie, kreedz and deathrun.”
Steam review · 14.3 h played ↗
Still active community and servers
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“Still has a lively community to play on any servers.”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗
Great movement feel
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews
“I don't think any game will ever top how movement feels on GoldSrc.”
Steam review · 1255.3 h played ↗
Runs on weak PCs, no bloat
Mentioned in ~1 in 38 positive reviews
“My laptop is weak but it runs well”
Steam review · translated from Russian · 3.8 h played ↗
What players complain about
Servers full of plugins, VIPs and custom skins
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“this game now is pay-to-win depending on the server (usually most of them in the server browser)”
Steam review · 39 h played ↗
Toxic, veteran-dominated community
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“this is filled with people that will only play this game because they cannot except CS2 so they will resort to going back to this game just to sweat”
Steam review · 25.9 h played ↗
Fake, dead or infected servers
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Server Browser is filled with 255/255 fake servers, known to infect PC's with viruses.”
Steam review · 11.9 h played ↗
Dated graphics and clunky feel
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“The oldest and obviously the clunkiest version of cs.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗
Cheaters and hackers
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Even server owners use cheats on their own servers.”
Steam review · 1167.8 h played ↗
No bots or matchmaking
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“Unplayable. It has no bot single player mode and no matchmaking.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable
Steam doesn’t list requirements for this game.
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