Tonight at a glance
- Platforms
- Linux · PC
- Mode
- Single player · Multiplayer
- Age rating
- PEGI 18
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Counter-Strike 2 is a free-to-play multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed and published by Valve. Released in September 2023, it is the fifth main entry in the Counter-Strike series and serves as a direct replacement for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam. Two teams, Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists, compete in objective-based rounds across modes such as bomb defusal and hostage rescue. Built on the Source 2 engine, the game introduced volumetric smoke physics, revised weapon handling, and a new sub-tick server architecture. It inherited all cosmetic items from its predecessor and features both a map-specific Competitive mode and a numerically ranked Premier mode.
- Action
- Warfare
- loot boxes
- terrorists
- competitve
- bombs
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
Production
- Rating
- 69 / 100 · 352 players
- Developer
- Valve
- Publisher
- Valve
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
