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How many people still play Counter-Strike 2?

1,100 players are on the 738 Counter-Strike 2 servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 867 listed.

Across the 104 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 857 and 4,565.

Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. We ask all 867 Counter-Strike 2 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 2 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.

1,100
Players connected

reported by the servers themselves

738
Servers answering

129 listed but silent

867
Servers listed

every one queried directly

4.4%
Slots used

of 24,823 slots those servers reported

These figures rest on 124,750 status checks across 169 measured hours, of which 104 cover enough of the Counter-Strike 2 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 2 is the 7th busiest of the 32 games JoinGG measures.

Players on Counter-Strike 2 servers, hour by hour

124,750 status checks · 169 hours measured

Mon 06:00 UTC — only 729 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 07:00 UTC — 1,424 players on 867 serversMon 08:00 UTC — only 119 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 09:00 UTC — 1,828 players on 867 serversMon 10:00 UTC — 2,190 players on 866 serversMon 11:00 UTC — only 730 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 12:00 UTC — 2,625 players on 867 serversMon 13:00 UTC — 2,924 players on 867 serversMon 14:00 UTC — 3,286 players on 867 serversMon 15:00 UTC — 3,479 players on 848 serversMon 16:00 UTC — only 359 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 17:00 UTC — only 646 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 18:00 UTC — 4,063 players on 847 serversMon 19:00 UTC — only 749 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 20:00 UTC — 3,803 players on 867 serversMon 21:00 UTC — 3,134 players on 848 serversMon 22:00 UTC — 2,657 players on 867 serversMon 23:00 UTC — 2,038 players on 867 serversTue 00:00 UTC — 1,465 players on 867 serversTue 01:00 UTC — only 119 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 02:00 UTC — 1,125 players on 867 serversTue 03:00 UTC — only 748 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 04:00 UTC — 857 players on 848 serversTue 05:00 UTC — 914 players on 867 serversTue 06:00 UTC — 1,030 players on 867 serversTue 07:00 UTC — 1,151 players on 846 serversTue 08:00 UTC — only 140 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 09:00 UTC — only 748 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 10:00 UTC — 1,767 players on 848 serversTue 11:00 UTC — 2,084 players on 867 serversTue 12:00 UTC — 2,641 players on 867 serversTue 13:00 UTC — 2,914 players on 848 serversTue 14:00 UTC — only 192 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 15:00 UTC — 3,104 players on 813 serversTue 16:00 UTC — only 748 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 17:00 UTC — 3,916 players on 848 serversTue 18:00 UTC — 4,493 players on 867 serversTue 19:00 UTC — 4,302 players on 867 serversTue 20:00 UTC — 3,633 players on 848 serversTue 21:00 UTC — only 138 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 22:00 UTC — 2,813 players on 867 serversTue 23:00 UTC — 2,026 players on 844 serversWed 00:00 UTC — only 752 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 01:00 UTC — 1,379 players on 867 serversWed 02:00 UTC — 1,084 players on 848 serversWed 03:00 UTC — 1,082 players on 867 serversWed 04:00 UTC — 960 players on 867 serversWed 05:00 UTC — only 604 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 06:00 UTC — only 382 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 07:00 UTC — 1,298 players on 867 serversWed 08:00 UTC — only 748 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 09:00 UTC — 1,722 players on 848 serversWed 10:00 UTC — 2,107 players on 867 serversWed 11:00 UTC — 2,529 players on 867 serversWed 12:00 UTC — 2,635 players on 848 serversWed 13:00 UTC — only 725 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 14:00 UTC — only 280 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 15:00 UTC — 3,568 players on 866 serversWed 16:00 UTC — only 730 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 17:00 UTC — 4,085 players on 867 serversWed 18:00 UTC — 4,281 players on 867 serversWed 19:00 UTC — 3,928 players on 848 serversWed 20:00 UTC — 3,906 players on 867 serversWed 21:00 UTC — only 138 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 22:00 UTC — 2,218 players on 848 serversWed 23:00 UTC — only 748 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 00:00 UTC — 1,971 players on 867 serversThu 01:00 UTC — 1,361 players on 848 serversThu 02:00 UTC — 1,219 players on 867 serversThu 03:00 UTC — 1,033 players on 867 serversThu 04:00 UTC — 936 players on 864 serversThu 05:00 UTC — only 122 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 06:00 UTC — 1,040 players on 867 serversThu 07:00 UTC — only 748 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 08:00 UTC — 1,413 players on 848 serversThu 09:00 UTC — 2,009 players on 867 serversThu 10:00 UTC — 2,410 players on 867 serversThu 11:00 UTC — 2,725 players on 848 serversThu 12:00 UTC — only 138 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 13:00 UTC — 3,203 players on 867 serversThu 14:00 UTC — only 729 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 15:00 UTC — 3,611 players on 867 serversThu 16:00 UTC — 4,031 players on 867 serversThu 17:00 UTC — 4,104 players on 848 serversThu 18:00 UTC — 4,512 players on 864 serversThu 19:00 UTC — only 141 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 20:00 UTC — 4,253 players on 866 serversThu 21:00 UTC — only 730 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 22:00 UTC — 2,985 players on 867 serversThu 23:00 UTC — 2,229 players on 867 serversFri 00:00 UTC — 1,634 players on 848 serversFri 01:00 UTC — 1,444 players on 867 serversFri 02:00 UTC — only 138 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 03:00 UTC — 999 players on 848 serversFri 04:00 UTC — only 748 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 05:00 UTC — 1,034 players on 867 serversFri 06:00 UTC — 1,085 players on 848 serversFri 07:00 UTC — 1,279 players on 867 serversFri 08:00 UTC — 1,552 players on 867 serversFri 09:00 UTC — only 403 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 10:00 UTC — only 583 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 11:00 UTC — only 748 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 12:00 UTC — 2,792 players on 867 serversFri 13:00 UTC — 2,962 players on 848 serversFri 14:00 UTC — 3,628 players on 867 serversFri 15:00 UTC — 3,797 players on 867 serversFri 16:00 UTC — only 119 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 17:00 UTC — 4,074 players on 861 serversFri 18:00 UTC — 4,443 players on 867 serversFri 19:00 UTC — 4,527 players on 867 serversFri 20:00 UTC — only 656 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 21:00 UTC — only 562 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 22:00 UTC — 2,959 players on 867 serversFri 23:00 UTC — only 606 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 00:00 UTC — 1,815 players on 848 serversSat 01:00 UTC — 1,501 players on 867 serversSat 02:00 UTC — only 566 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 03:00 UTC — only 666 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 04:00 UTC — 884 players on 818 serversSat 05:00 UTC — only 579 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 06:00 UTC — 1,270 players on 867 serversSat 07:00 UTC — 1,245 players on 820 serversSat 08:00 UTC — only 566 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 09:00 UTC — 2,277 players on 867 serversSat 10:00 UTC — only 617 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 11:00 UTC — only 634 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 12:00 UTC — 3,010 players on 812 serversSat 13:00 UTC — 3,141 players on 839 serversSat 14:00 UTC — only 586 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 15:00 UTC — 3,591 players on 828 serversSat 16:00 UTC — only 636 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 17:00 UTC — only 634 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 18:00 UTC — 3,464 players on 793 serversSat 19:00 UTC — 3,778 players on 839 serversSat 20:00 UTC — only 669 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 21:00 UTC — only 764 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 22:00 UTC — only 617 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 23:00 UTC — 2,909 players on 867 serversSun 00:00 UTC — only 579 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 01:00 UTC — 1,622 players on 867 serversSun 02:00 UTC — 1,086 players on 820 serversSun 03:00 UTC — only 566 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 04:00 UTC — only 636 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 05:00 UTC — 1,163 players on 867 serversSun 06:00 UTC — only 560 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 07:00 UTC — 1,402 players on 839 serversSun 08:00 UTC — 1,885 players on 867 serversSun 09:00 UTC — only 548 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 10:00 UTC — only 636 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 11:00 UTC — 3,271 players on 865 serversSun 12:00 UTC — only 580 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 13:00 UTC — 3,140 players on 821 serversSun 14:00 UTC — 4,133 players on 867 serversSun 15:00 UTC — only 566 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 16:00 UTC — only 635 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 17:00 UTC — only 634 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 18:00 UTC — 4,565 players on 866 serversSun 19:00 UTC — 4,287 players on 850 serversSun 20:00 UTC — 3,909 players on 867 serversSun 21:00 UTC — 2,805 players on 811 serversSun 22:00 UTC — only 535 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 23:00 UTC — 2,175 players on 850 serversMon 00:00 UTC — only 547 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 01:00 UTC — only 723 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 02:00 UTC — 1,151 players on 850 serversMon 03:00 UTC — 979 players on 812 serversMon 04:00 UTC — only 737 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 05:00 UTC — only 647 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 06:00 UTC — only 403 of 867 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparable
Mon 06:00 UTCMon 06:00 UTC
Busiest hour measured
4,565 at Sun 18:00 UTC
Quietest hour measured
857 at Tue 04:00 UTC
Latest sweep
979 players
Hours plotted
104 of 169

65 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

1,100
Players here

on the 738 servers JoinGG reached

445,072
In game (Valve)

everyone running it anywhere, per Steam

These two count different things

Players here is ours: people connected to the Counter-Strike 2 servers JoinGG lists, counted by asking each server. In game (Valve) is Steam's live count of everyone running Counter-Strike 2 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.

Where those players are right now

The Counter-Strike 2 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 2 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
GFL Zombie Escape 24/7 | discord.gg/gflze |ze_resident_evil_362 / 64204 msUnited States 🇺🇸
【僵尸乐园】 CS2 ZE #2ze_minecraft_adventure43 / 64402 msChina 🇨🇳
EXG社区☣️僵尸逃跑 Ｑ群929982837 PVE模式 #1ze_exit_this_earths_atomosphere30 / 64338 msChina 🇨🇳
-=WarmupServer=-™ Mirage 23 Rifles ★FFA-DM★de_mirage23 / 323 msGermany 🇩🇪
-=WarmupServer=-™ Mirage 23 ★MultiCFG™★FFA-DM★de_mirage23 / 323 msGermany 🇩🇪
CS2 BHOP #15 [RU] — CYBERSHOKE.NET (TIER 1-2 - EASY, ONLY EMbhop_emevaelx321 / 64109 msRussia 🇷🇺
-=WarmupServer=-™ [DA] Dust2 23 ★MultiCFG™★FFA-DM★de_dust218 / 32233 msUnited States 🇺🇸
CS2 DM | FFA #142 [RU] — CYBERSHOKE.NET (16 SLOTS)de_mirage17 / 64113 msRussia 🇷🇺
Zombie::[Net4ALL.RU]::Workshop|SSD [CS 2]ze_peach_insanity_n6416 / 6545 msRussia 🇷🇺
Zombie::[Net4ALL.RU]::Workshop|SSD [CS 2]ze_peach_insanity_n6416 / 65116 msRussia 🇷🇺
All 867 Counter-Strike 2 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 2 servers report they are running, not from what their names say.

Retake134Deathmatch79AWP50Surf32Zombie24Jailbreak24Climb10Bunny Hop8Minigames3Deathrun2Trouble in Terrorist Town1

Counter-Strike 2 player counts — the questions

Is Counter-Strike 2 still alive in 2026?
Yes, and this is the measurement rather than an opinion. 1,100 players are on the 738 Counter-Strike 2 servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 867 listed. Across the 104 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 857 and 4,565. Every one of those numbers came from asking the servers themselves.
When is Counter-Strike 2 busiest?
Around 18:00 UTC. Averaged over 7 days of readings, that hour carries about 4,260 players across the Counter-Strike 2 servers listed here.
How many Counter-Strike 2 servers are there?
867 Counter-Strike 2 servers are listed on JoinGG, and 738 of them answered the last status query. The other 129 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 2 player count?
They measure different populations. Steam counts everybody running Counter-Strike 2 anywhere right now — official matchmaking, single-player, community servers and idle menus — and reports 445,072. We count people connected to the 738 Counter-Strike 2 servers we reached, which is 1,100. 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 867 Counter-Strike 2 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 2 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.

Minecraft36,751FiveM31,598Counter-Strike 1.67,744Counter-Strike: Source3,483Team Fortress 21,995Garry's Mod1,508Counter-Strike: Global Offensive393Day of Defeat371Left 4 Dead 2332Half-Life296Counter-Strike: Condition Zero271Day of Defeat: Source264Team Fortress Classic250Half-Life 2: Deathmatch114Natural Selection71Insurgency (2014)60Rust38Zombie Panic! Source38Left 4 Dead20Space Engineers167 Days to Die13Fortress Forever12Alien Swarm0Insurgency (Source)0