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How many people still play Counter-Strike 1.6?

8,175 players are on the 1,309 Counter-Strike 1.6 servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 1,589 listed.

Across the 113 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 6,101 and 11,629.

Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. We ask all 1,589 Counter-Strike 1.6 servers listed here every hour, over Valve's A2S status query (the same request the in-game server browser makes), and write down what each one answers. Nothing is scraped from another site, modelled, or extrapolated to servers we do not list — which is also the limit of it: these are the Counter-Strike 1.6 servers on JoinGG, so read the counts as a large sample of public community servers rather than as a census of the game.

Last sweep . This page rebuilds every five minutes.

8,175
Players connected

reported by the servers themselves

1,309
Servers answering

280 listed but silent

1,589
Servers listed

every one queried directly

22.4%
Slots used

of 36,487 slots those servers reported

These figures rest on 227,566 status checks across 169 measured hours, of which 113 cover enough of the Counter-Strike 1.6 list to compare with the others. Readings are kept for 7 days, so this page gets deeper as they accumulate rather than longer. By players on listed servers, Counter-Strike 1.6 is the 3rd busiest of the 32 games JoinGG measures.

Players on Counter-Strike 1.6 servers, hour by hour

227,566 status checks · 169 hours measured

Mon 07:00 UTC — only 1,316 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 08:00 UTC — only 272 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 09:00 UTC — 9,015 players on 1,589 serversMon 10:00 UTC — 9,042 players on 1,586 serversMon 11:00 UTC — only 1,263 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 12:00 UTC — 9,848 players on 1,588 serversMon 13:00 UTC — 10,007 players on 1,589 serversMon 14:00 UTC — 10,372 players on 1,589 serversMon 15:00 UTC — 9,970 players on 1,529 serversMon 16:00 UTC — only 399 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 17:00 UTC — 10,443 players on 1,521 serversMon 18:00 UTC — 10,607 players on 1,528 serversMon 19:00 UTC — only 1,320 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 20:00 UTC — 10,672 players on 1,589 serversMon 21:00 UTC — 9,179 players on 1,531 serversMon 22:00 UTC — 9,098 players on 1,588 serversMon 23:00 UTC — 8,695 players on 1,589 serversTue 00:00 UTC — 8,190 players on 1,573 serversTue 01:00 UTC — only 287 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 02:00 UTC — 7,840 players on 1,589 serversTue 03:00 UTC — only 1,318 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 04:00 UTC — 6,776 players on 1,531 serversTue 05:00 UTC — 7,730 players on 1,588 serversTue 06:00 UTC — 8,142 players on 1,589 serversTue 07:00 UTC — only 1,240 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 08:00 UTC — only 620 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 09:00 UTC — only 1,318 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 10:00 UTC — 8,706 players on 1,531 serversTue 11:00 UTC — 9,605 players on 1,588 serversTue 12:00 UTC — 9,979 players on 1,589 serversTue 13:00 UTC — 9,568 players on 1,530 serversTue 14:00 UTC — only 336 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 15:00 UTC — 10,676 players on 1,583 serversTue 16:00 UTC — only 1,318 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 17:00 UTC — 10,426 players on 1,530 serversTue 18:00 UTC — 11,629 players on 1,589 serversTue 19:00 UTC — 11,383 players on 1,589 serversTue 20:00 UTC — 9,719 players on 1,529 serversTue 21:00 UTC — only 331 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 22:00 UTC — 9,295 players on 1,589 serversTue 23:00 UTC — 8,045 players on 1,527 serversWed 00:00 UTC — only 1,321 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 01:00 UTC — 8,117 players on 1,589 serversWed 02:00 UTC — 6,866 players on 1,531 serversWed 03:00 UTC — 7,609 players on 1,588 serversWed 04:00 UTC — 7,616 players on 1,588 serversWed 05:00 UTC — only 547 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 06:00 UTC — only 1,314 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 07:00 UTC — 8,051 players on 1,588 serversWed 08:00 UTC — only 1,319 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 09:00 UTC — 8,347 players on 1,531 serversWed 10:00 UTC — 9,283 players on 1,588 serversWed 11:00 UTC — 9,769 players on 1,589 serversWed 12:00 UTC — 9,262 players on 1,531 serversWed 13:00 UTC — only 647 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 14:00 UTC — only 1,271 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 15:00 UTC — 10,457 players on 1,587 serversWed 16:00 UTC — only 1,261 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 17:00 UTC — 11,377 players on 1,589 serversWed 18:00 UTC — 11,429 players on 1,589 serversWed 19:00 UTC — 10,289 players on 1,531 serversWed 20:00 UTC — 10,301 players on 1,587 serversWed 21:00 UTC — only 331 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 22:00 UTC — 8,481 players on 1,531 serversWed 23:00 UTC — only 1,317 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 00:00 UTC — 8,468 players on 1,589 serversThu 01:00 UTC — 7,380 players on 1,531 serversThu 02:00 UTC — 7,675 players on 1,589 serversThu 03:00 UTC — 7,415 players on 1,588 serversThu 04:00 UTC — only 944 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 05:00 UTC — only 917 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 06:00 UTC — 7,938 players on 1,588 serversThu 07:00 UTC — only 1,318 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 08:00 UTC — 7,918 players on 1,531 serversThu 09:00 UTC — 9,010 players on 1,588 serversThu 10:00 UTC — 9,386 players on 1,589 serversThu 11:00 UTC — 9,038 players on 1,530 serversThu 12:00 UTC — only 331 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 13:00 UTC — 10,271 players on 1,588 serversThu 14:00 UTC — only 1,260 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 15:00 UTC — 10,532 players on 1,589 serversThu 16:00 UTC — 10,948 players on 1,588 serversThu 17:00 UTC — 10,403 players on 1,531 serversThu 18:00 UTC — only 1,059 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 19:00 UTC — only 859 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 20:00 UTC — 10,703 players on 1,586 serversThu 21:00 UTC — only 1,263 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 22:00 UTC — 9,505 players on 1,588 serversThu 23:00 UTC — 8,788 players on 1,589 serversFri 00:00 UTC — 7,667 players on 1,531 serversFri 01:00 UTC — 7,940 players on 1,587 serversFri 02:00 UTC — only 331 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 03:00 UTC — 6,890 players on 1,531 serversFri 04:00 UTC — only 1,317 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 05:00 UTC — 7,725 players on 1,589 serversFri 06:00 UTC — 7,286 players on 1,531 serversFri 07:00 UTC — 8,221 players on 1,589 serversFri 08:00 UTC — 8,753 players on 1,587 serversFri 09:00 UTC — only 416 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 10:00 UTC — 7,735 players on 1,446 serversFri 11:00 UTC — only 1,317 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 12:00 UTC — 9,727 players on 1,589 serversFri 13:00 UTC — 9,447 players on 1,531 serversFri 14:00 UTC — 10,289 players on 1,589 serversFri 15:00 UTC — 10,821 players on 1,587 serversFri 16:00 UTC — only 273 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 17:00 UTC — 11,124 players on 1,585 serversFri 18:00 UTC — 11,408 players on 1,588 serversFri 19:00 UTC — 11,405 players on 1,589 serversFri 20:00 UTC — 10,219 players on 1,523 serversFri 21:00 UTC — only 307 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 22:00 UTC — 9,701 players on 1,589 serversFri 23:00 UTC — only 1,384 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 00:00 UTC — 7,614 players on 1,531 serversSat 01:00 UTC — 8,254 players on 1,588 serversSat 02:00 UTC — 7,559 players on 1,488 serversSat 03:00 UTC — only 596 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 04:00 UTC — only 1,389 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 05:00 UTC — only 1,330 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 06:00 UTC — 8,104 players on 1,589 serversSat 07:00 UTC — 7,227 players on 1,494 serversSat 08:00 UTC — 7,898 players on 1,488 serversSat 09:00 UTC — 9,113 players on 1,588 serversSat 10:00 UTC — only 397 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 11:00 UTC — only 1,420 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 12:00 UTC — 8,999 players on 1,499 serversSat 13:00 UTC — 9,346 players on 1,553 serversSat 14:00 UTC — 8,611 players on 1,435 serversSat 15:00 UTC — 10,790 players on 1,582 serversSat 16:00 UTC — only 456 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 17:00 UTC — only 1,420 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 18:00 UTC — 9,068 players on 1,440 serversSat 19:00 UTC — 10,417 players on 1,553 serversSat 20:00 UTC — 10,103 players on 1,505 serversSat 21:00 UTC — 10,050 players on 1,571 serversSat 22:00 UTC — only 397 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 23:00 UTC — 9,114 players on 1,588 serversSun 00:00 UTC — only 1,331 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 01:00 UTC — 7,993 players on 1,589 serversSun 02:00 UTC — 6,705 players on 1,494 serversSun 03:00 UTC — 7,171 players on 1,487 serversSun 04:00 UTC — only 456 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 05:00 UTC — 7,470 players on 1,589 serversSun 06:00 UTC — only 1,271 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 07:00 UTC — 7,614 players on 1,553 serversSun 08:00 UTC — 8,618 players on 1,589 serversSun 09:00 UTC — 7,521 players on 1,431 serversSun 10:00 UTC — only 456 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 11:00 UTC — 9,677 players on 1,586 serversSun 12:00 UTC — only 1,330 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 13:00 UTC — 9,151 players on 1,497 serversSun 14:00 UTC — 11,043 players on 1,589 serversSun 15:00 UTC — 9,934 players on 1,487 serversSun 16:00 UTC — only 453 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 17:00 UTC — only 1,420 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 18:00 UTC — 11,570 players on 1,586 serversSun 19:00 UTC — 10,478 players on 1,536 serversSun 20:00 UTC — 10,694 players on 1,588 serversSun 21:00 UTC — 8,378 players on 1,496 serversSun 22:00 UTC — only 1,233 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 23:00 UTC — 8,057 players on 1,536 serversMon 00:00 UTC — only 594 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 01:00 UTC — 7,438 players on 1,492 serversMon 02:00 UTC — 7,225 players on 1,535 serversMon 03:00 UTC — 6,893 players on 1,499 serversMon 04:00 UTC — only 1,317 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 05:00 UTC — 6,101 players on 1,449 serversMon 06:00 UTC — only 594 of 1,589 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 07:00 UTC — 7,062 players on 1,439 servers
Mon 07:00 UTCMon 07:00 UTC
Busiest hour measured
11,629 at Tue 18:00 UTC
Quietest hour measured
6,101 at Mon 05:00 UTC
Latest sweep
7,062 players
Hours plotted
113 of 169

56 hours are marked but not plotted. The poller reached under 90% of the list in those hours, so the totals are low because fewer servers were asked — not because fewer people were playing. Drawing them on the same line would invent a drop.

The other player count

8,175
Players here

on the 1,309 servers JoinGG reached

5,497
In game (Valve)

everyone running it anywhere, per Steam

These two count different things

Players here is ours: people connected to the Counter-Strike 1.6 servers JoinGG lists, counted by asking each server. In game (Valve) is Steam's live count of everyone running Counter-Strike 1.6 anywhere — official matchmaking, single-player, community servers and idle menus included. Neither is a subset of the other that we can compute: our list is not every community server in existence, and Valve's total is not limited to multiplayer. So both are printed and neither is divided by the other.

Valve's figure comes from the Steam Web API and is cached for an hour, so it can lag ours by up to that much.

Our count is the bigger number here

We can see more players on the Counter-Strike 1.6 servers we list (8,175) than Valve reports for the entire game (5,497). That is not a mistake in either figure. Server queries count bots as players, because the protocol reports them as players — a bot-filled rotation looks busy to us. And Valve counts Steam clients, while a large share of the surviving population on the oldest GoldSrc titles plays on non-Steam builds, so those players are on the servers we query and invisible to Steam. Both effects push the same way, and on a twenty-five-year-old game they push hard enough to cross over.

Where those players are right now

The Counter-Strike 1.6 listings with the most people on them at the last sweep. Every figure in the row is what that server answered — the ping is our round trip to it, not yours, so read it as a rough measure of where the box is rather than of what you will get.

The Counter-Strike 1.6 servers listed on JoinGG with the most players on them at the last status query, with the player count, map and round trip each one reported.
ServerMapPlayersPingWhere
[MKD] DeathMatch | Team Macedonia [PUBLIC + RESPAWN]aim_map_pro254 / 2552 msGermany 🇩🇪
 ::. [ONLY] Gaming Server .::#1 | Onlygaming.comcs_pf_dust32 / 328 msGermany 🇩🇪
AlcatraZ ~ [de_dust2]de_inferno32 / 3226 msPoland 🇵🇱
CS.CSDARK.RO --> Happy Family!JOIN US NOWde_nuke_rarea32 / 321 msRussia 🇷🇺
REBELII.LEAGUECS.RO - CLASSIC SERVER | VIP FREEde_dust232 / 326 msPeru 🇵🇪
RED BULL ARENAde_dust232 / 3256 msRussia 🇷🇺
Slovakia #1 DD2 PUBLIC .: CSDM :.de_inferno32 / 32206 msBrazil 🇧🇷
XPlayZM.CSBlackDevil.com ZP UltimateX | Respawn | VIP 22-00 zm_infernox_beta32 / 323 msRomania 🇷🇴
[CSGO-MODE]#3 WELCOME TO *ARGENTINA* |PUBLIC|de_warfare232 / 3234 msBrazil 🇧🇷
[RPG] Royal PAK-Gamerz | Free VIP + Multi Jumpsde_inferno32 / 3214 msSlovakia 🇸🇰
All 1,589 Counter-Strike 1.6 servers

What they are actually playing

The count above is people on servers, and servers run modes. These are taken from what the Counter-Strike 1.6 servers report they are running, not from what their names say.

Zombie181Deathmatch48Surf31Gun Game30Jailbreak26Deathrun17AWP16Climb7Bunny Hop4Retake2

Counter-Strike 1.6 player counts — the questions

Is Counter-Strike 1.6 still alive in 2026?
Yes, and this is the measurement rather than an opinion. 8,175 players are on the 1,309 Counter-Strike 1.6 servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 1,589 listed. Across the 113 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 6,101 and 11,629. Every one of those numbers came from asking the servers themselves.
When is Counter-Strike 1.6 busiest?
Around 18:00 UTC. Averaged over 6 days of readings, that hour carries about 10,952 players across the Counter-Strike 1.6 servers listed here.
How many Counter-Strike 1.6 servers are there?
1,589 Counter-Strike 1.6 servers are listed on JoinGG, and 1,309 of them answered the last status query. The other 280 stayed silent, which is recorded as silent rather than as empty — a server that does not answer and a server with nobody on it are different facts and we only measured one of them.
Why is this different from Steam's Counter-Strike 1.6 player count?
They measure different populations. Steam counts everybody running Counter-Strike 1.6 anywhere right now — official matchmaking, single-player, community servers and idle menus — and reports 5,497. We count people connected to the 1,309 Counter-Strike 1.6 servers we reached, which is 8,175. Neither figure is a subset of the other that we can compute, so both are printed and neither is divided by the other.
How is this counted?
Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. We ask all 1,589 Counter-Strike 1.6 servers listed here every hour, over Valve's A2S status query (the same request the in-game server browser makes), and write down what each one answers. Nothing is scraped from another site, modelled, or extrapolated to servers we do not list — which is also the limit of it: these are the Counter-Strike 1.6 servers on JoinGG, so read the counts as a large sample of public community servers rather than as a census of the game.

Readings are kept for 7 days and pruned by the poller, so this page describes the last week rather than all time — it gets deeper as readings accumulate rather than longer. Hours are measured in UTC and shown in your own clock; hover any of them to read the UTC figure behind it. The answers above stay in UTC, because each is also published as structured data for search engines, where a reader’s zone means nothing.

How many people still play the others

Every game JoinGG measures with enough servers behind it to publish, busiest first. The number on each is the players we can see on its listed servers right now.

Minecraft36,261FiveM29,042Counter-Strike: Source3,485Team Fortress 21,925Garry's Mod1,610Counter-Strike 21,265Counter-Strike: Global Offensive393Day of Defeat349Half-Life281Left 4 Dead 2276Counter-Strike: Condition Zero264Day of Defeat: Source244Team Fortress Classic214Half-Life 2: Deathmatch133Natural Selection75Insurgency (2014)55Left 4 Dead33Zombie Panic! Source33Rust31Fortress Forever12Space Engineers117 Days to Die6Alien Swarm1Insurgency (Source)0