Counter-Strike 2: Player Count Stats December 2023

Counter-Strike 2 released just a few months ago, and the community discussion around the game never stops. There are a lot of differing opinions on whether this is a true sequel to the game or not, but if one thing is certain, it's that you don't really have a choice as Global Offensive has officially shut down. In this article, we are going to go over the current active player count to see how successful Valve was at delivering the next stage of Counter-Strike.

Counter-Strike 2 Player Count Stats December 2023

Lucklily, due to the game being only available on Steam, we are able to have the exact numbers for the active player count in Counter-Strike 2. For this information, we are going to be using Steamcharts and we are going to see how the last few months have been for the game, as well as where it might be headed in the future.

Based on the information from Steamcharts, we can see that Counter-Strike 2 has averaged 731,704 players during the last 30 days, with a peak of over 1.2 million players during its busiest hours. These numbers are quite a bit lower than from May 2023, where the game had around 400-600 thousand more players. This might indicate that the player base is not quite ready to make the switch to CS2, before some major changes are introduced by Valve.

Is Counter-Strike 2 Dying?

While Counter-Strike 2 is certainly not dying, the lack of a spike in growth surrounding the release of the game, as well as the steady drop in numbers shortly followed, is not the best look for the game going forward. CS2 is still the most popular game on Steam at the moment, but we are not certain that these are the numbers Valve was expecting when they decided to upgrade the game.

Counter-Strike 2 is in a healthy spot going into 2024, but if anything, these numbers show that the community is not fully embracing the game, with much higher peaks in player numbers just a few months before its release. We are hoping that Valve keeps updating the game with balance adjustments and new content in the foreseeable future.