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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.

Counter-Strike is a action, fps and multiplayer game developed and published by Valve.
Released on November 01st 2000 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 8 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.

It has received 250,245 reviews of which 243,818 were positive and 6,427 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.6 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Counter-Strike into these genres:

Action FPS Multiplayer Shooter Classic Team-Based First-Person Competitive Tactical 1990's e-sports PvP Old School Military Strategy Survival Score Attack 1980s Assassin Nostalgia

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Minimum: 500 mhz processor, 96mb ram, 16mb video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

Recommended: 800 mhz processor, 128mb ram, 32mb+ video card, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

MacOS
Minimum: OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3, 1GB RAM, 4GB Hard Drive Space,NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 or higher Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection
Linux
Minimum: Linux Ubuntu 12.04, Dual-core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz, 1GB Memory, nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeaon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1, 4GB Hard Drive Space, OpenAL Compatible Sound Card

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April 2025
I remember the first time I played Counter-Strike. It was the year 2000. I was six years old — too young to understand strategy, too young to understand competition — but somehow just the right age to fall in love with chaos. That day, my cousin showed me a dusty PC in a smoky internet café. A CRT monitor flickered. A mouse too big for my hand. But it wasn’t just a game. It was my first battle. He loaded up de_dust, and suddenly, the world outside — the noise, the crowds, the slow passage of real life — faded into nothing. There were no big cutscenes, no heroes. Just me, a Desert Eagle, and an objective I barely understood. I wasn’t just playing. I was fighting. And then came the countless hours. Headphones crackling with radio commands. My heart racing with every corner I peeked. Maps that became burned into my brain — the feel of them, not just the look. I didn’t need tutorials. We learned by losing. By fumbling flashbangs and mistiming bomb plants. By laughing at every terrible mistake and swearing we’d get it right next time. Sometimes my father would peek into the room, watching me shout at a screen filled with pixelated soldiers. He didn’t understand why I cared so much about a digital bomb ticking down. But he let me have that world. A place where mistakes had a "restart" button. Where battles could be won with practice, not just luck. Now, two decades later, I still come back. The graphics are ancient. The servers mostly abandoned. The hitboxes feel like ghosts compared to what games are now. But something inside Counter-Strike still breathes. Every footstep on old concrete. Every panicked spray of bullets. Every dusty corridor, whispering memories from a time when everything felt new and impossible and alive. Counter-Strike isn’t just a shooter. It’s a fossil from a younger Earth. It’s a monument to when games weren’t about battle passes or daily challenges— just pure, raw, imperfect competition. And as I buy armor and a defusal kit one more time, as I run through the same broken hallways I knew before I even knew what nostalgia was, I remain there. Hand on the mouse... And a tear I cannot quite name— whether it’s loss, or gratitude.
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April 2025
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☑ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10
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Feb. 2025
My first game on 1.6 servers >join a russian server as thats the one with best ping >join CT > hear alot of "cyka" "blyat" >dont speak as i cant speak russian >one of the admins call out my name and ask why I dont speak > open google translate >by the time i started to say anything I got kicked >10/10
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Dec. 2024
This game is fire. Love meeting 46 year old Russian dads that just came home from work and are drinking beer. My new friend Vlad is crazy at this game. Was invited to a party in Smolensk, however sadly couldn't attend. Would recommend.
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July 2024
This community is so nice and helpful, I got a lot of tips on how to uninstall the game and kill myself.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Counter-Strike is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.

Counter-Strike is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 8.19€ on Steam.

Counter-Strike received 243,818 positive votes out of a total of 250,245 achieving an impressive rating of 9.63.
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Counter-Strike was developed and published by Valve.

Counter-Strike is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Counter-Strike is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Counter-Strike is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Counter-Strike is a multi-player game.

Counter-Strike features PvP mode where you can test your skills against other players.

Counter-Strike does not currently offer any DLC.

Counter-Strike does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Counter-Strike does not support Steam Remote Play.

Counter-Strike is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Counter-Strike
8.19€
9.6
243,818
6,427
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
7,770
Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Release 01 Nov 2000
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