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Counter-Strike 2
Players on Steam at last update
536,539
Source: Steam Web API, as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026.
Compared with the highest reading90%
05:00 UTC reading on November 8, 2026: 536,539, 90% of the highest recorded by Statcade (593,987 on October 18, 2026, 17 readings since October 17, 2026).
- Rank by players
- #1of 309 Steam games with a player count
- Highest reading
- 593,987on October 18, 2026, 17 readings
- Release
- Aug 21, 2012
Counter-Strike 2 on Statcade: players online on Steam, copies sold, facts and charts.
At a glance
| Developer | Valve |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Valve |
| Release | Aug 21, 2012 |
| Platform | PC (Steam) |
| Genre | Shooter, Action, Free-to-Play |
| Players online on Steam | 536,539 (as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026) |
| Players at the 05:00 UTC reading | 536,539 (November 8, 2026, taken at 05:21 UTC) |
About the game
The description from Steam and the story of the game are available in Italian on the Italian page.
Steam price
Price check of November 8, 2026 on Steam Italy (euros). This game is free on Steam.
Steam reviews: anomalous spikes
No anomalous spike of negative reviews in the last 30 days.
How we calculate it
Every day we count how many positive and negative reviews were written on Steam for the game (all languages, both Steam purchases and keys), using Steam's public reviews API. A day counts as an anomalous spike only if, within the last 30 days, all of these conditions hold:
- at least 50 negative reviews on that day, so games with few reviews do not trigger the alarm (once a spike has started, it continues as long as the other conditions hold, even below this figure);
- negative reviews are at least 3 times the median of the previous 28 days and exceed the “median + 5 × MAD” threshold (MAD is the median absolute deviation: it measures how much the counts usually vary, without being dragged by a single odd day);
- the share of negative reviews rises by at least 20 percentage points compared with the previous 28 days and exceeds 50%;
- positive reviews do not grow in the same way: compared with usual, negative reviews increase at least 3 times more than positive ones. Releases, big updates and sales also bring lots of positive reviews, so they do not count as a spike.
The comparison needs at least 21 days with reviews among the previous 28: for games that have just come out we give no verdict. Days already flagged are left out of the comparison for the following days, and flagged days close together form a single spike. The score without the spike removes all reviews, positive and negative, written on the spike days (as Steam does when it excludes a period of “off-topic review activity”). Days are in UTC.
This is not a judgement on the reviews: a spike also contains sincere criticism. We only point out that on those days far more negative reviews than usual came in.
Source: Steam's public reviews API, data up to October 17, 2026 (UTC). Check: most recent negative reviews on Steam.
Game signature
Peak at 15:00 · low at 05:00 · the peak is 2.8 times the low
The 24-hour curve as a circle: midnight at the top, the radius is the number of players in each hour (Italian time), the gold dot is the peak hour.
Speedruns
World records and best times in the main categories of Counter-Strike 2 on speedrun.com.
Arms Race Any% (Baggage, Guns Only) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | forze33 | 46,025 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | zknfps | 46,180 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | grillbr | 46,467 (new tab) |
Palais Easter Eggs (Get to secret room) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | Ch1ckenGG | 28,450 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | RahulWaffen | 29,567 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | CihanCS2 | 29,633 (new tab) |
Tour of Duty Competitive (Dust 2, 5v5) (new tab)
| Pos. | Player | Time | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | 1stNinja | 9:06,200 (new tab) | |
| 2nd | Ranctious | 9:36,033 (new tab) | |
| 3rd | LordxHobo | 9:39,040 (new tab) |
Source: speedrun.com (new tab), license CC BY-NC 4.0 (new tab); data selected and reformatted by Statcade (default category and subcategories, updated on a rotating basis). All records: Speedruns.
Italian sentiment
Share of positive Steam reviews written in Italian, compared with the share across all languages.
- In Italian86.5% positive reviews20,061 positive out of 23,201 reviews
- All languages85.8% positive reviews8,519,090 positive out of 9,929,987 reviews
In line with the rest of the world: the difference (+0.7 points) stays below the 10-point threshold.
Source: Steam, user reviews (all purchases), checked on October 18, 2026. What counts is the language the review is written in, not the reviewer's country; “all languages” includes Italian too. All games: Italian sentiment.
When to play to find the most players
Busiest: 15:00–18:00 (on average 1,131,162 players) Quietest: 03:00–06:00 (459,633 on average)
| Time slot | Average players | Compared with the daily average |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00–03:00 | 570,149 | 73% |
| 03:00–06:00 quietest | 459,633 | 59% |
| 06:00–09:00 | 502,055 | 64% |
| 09:00–12:00 | 659,986 | 85% |
| 12:00–15:00 | 945,735 | 121% |
| 15:00–18:00 busiest | 1,131,162 | 145% |
| 18:00–21:00 | 1,070,704 | 137% |
| 21:00–24:00 | 903,575 | 116% |
Source: Statcade hourly readings from the Steam Web API GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers, since October 18; times in Italian time (CET/CEST).
How we calculate it
Every hour we record the players online on Steam. We convert each reading to Italian time (daylight saving time included), average each hour over all days and then average each 3-hour slot (00–03, 03–06, … 21–24). Hours in which the reading is anomalous for the whole catalogue are excluded. Players come from all over the world, not just Italy: the slot shows how many people are online on Steam at that Italian time.
Data: Wikipedia (en), “Counter-Strike 2”, Steam.
Rivals
Call of Duty®179,187 players at last updatefewer players than Counter-Strike 2
Apex Legends™121,166 players at last updatefewer players than Counter-Strike 2
Team Fortress 285,742 players at last updatefewer players than Counter-Strike 2
Steam games with the same main genre (“Shooter”) and the closest number of players online (as of 05:21 UTC on November 8, 2026). Source: Steam Web API.