Counter-Strike 2 might be the biggest game on Steam, but Global Offensive is breaking player count records since it went standalone again

nytime you're talking about the hottest game on Steam, there's an evergreen unspoken caveat: 'after Counter-Strike, of course.' CS2 is unquestionably Steam's killer app—it has well over a million concurrent players as I write this according to SteamDB, and it's showing no signs of slowing down. But don't count out the game it once absorbed and then spat out: its predecessor, Global Offensive... Read more.

Jul 4, 2026 - 20:00
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Counter-Strike 2 might be the biggest game on Steam, but Global Offensive is breaking player count records since it went standalone again


nytime you're talking about the hottest game on Steam, there's an evergreen unspoken caveat: 'after Counter-Strike, of course.' CS2 is unquestionably Steam's killer app—it has well over a million concurrent players as I write this according to SteamDB, and it's showing no signs of slowing down. But don't count out the game it once absorbed and then spat out: its predecessor, Global Offensive... Read more.
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