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Action-focused Counter-Strike 2 comes from Valve as both developer and publisher. Listed with a 2012 release, it has 5,119,065 Steam reviews with 86% positive sentiment, a very positive signal at unusually large scale.
Overview
Counter-Strike 2 is a 2012 Action game developed by Valve and published by Valve. On Steam it has gathered 5,124,985 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer Valve with publisher Valve is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 276.7 million to 645.7 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Counter-Strike 2 can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
5,124,985
Positive
86%
Steam appid
730
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0276.7M to 645.7M
units (median: 461.2M)
≈ $2371.2M to $5532.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2012 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Counter-Strike 2 at roughly 276.7 million to 645.7 million copies, with a median around 461.2 million, derived from its 5,124,985 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3952.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $11.48Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $11.48 to $19.99, averaging $18.92 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $11.48 on 2026-05-01.
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Genres
ActionFree To Play
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Counter-Strike 2 sold?
- indielist estimates Counter-Strike 2 has sold between 276,749,190 and 645,748,110 units (median 461,248,650), derived from its 5,124,985 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Counter-Strike 2?
- Counter-Strike 2 was developed by Valve and published by Valve.
- When was Counter-Strike 2 released?
- Counter-Strike 2 was released in 2012.
- How many reviews does Counter-Strike 2 have on Steam?
- Counter-Strike 2 has 5,124,985 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Counter-Strike 2 within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Valve's other releases and Valve's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Counter-Strike 2 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Counter-Strike 2 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.