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How many people still play Counter-Strike: Source?

3,483 players are on the 522 Counter-Strike: Source servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 599 listed.

Across the 112 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 2,857 and 4,858.

Every figure on this page was measured by JoinGG. We ask all 599 Counter-Strike: Source 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: Source 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.

3,483
Players connected

reported by the servers themselves

522
Servers answering

77 listed but silent

599
Servers listed

every one queried directly

18.8%
Slots used

of 18,485 slots those servers reported

These figures rest on 86,532 status checks across 169 measured hours, of which 112 cover enough of the Counter-Strike: Source 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: Source is the 4th busiest of the 32 games JoinGG measures.

Players on Counter-Strike: Source servers, hour by hour

86,532 status checks · 169 hours measured

Mon 06:00 UTC — only 514 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 07:00 UTC — 3,522 players on 599 serversMon 08:00 UTC — only 78 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 09:00 UTC — 3,665 players on 599 serversMon 10:00 UTC — 3,832 players on 598 serversMon 11:00 UTC — only 515 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 12:00 UTC — 3,959 players on 599 serversMon 13:00 UTC — 4,042 players on 599 serversMon 14:00 UTC — 4,188 players on 599 serversMon 15:00 UTC — 4,326 players on 592 serversMon 16:00 UTC — only 410 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 17:00 UTC — only 274 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 18:00 UTC — 4,604 players on 591 serversMon 19:00 UTC — only 522 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 20:00 UTC — 4,332 players on 599 serversMon 21:00 UTC — 3,870 players on 592 serversMon 22:00 UTC — 3,817 players on 599 serversMon 23:00 UTC — 3,826 players on 599 serversTue 00:00 UTC — 3,670 players on 599 serversTue 01:00 UTC — only 78 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 02:00 UTC — 3,560 players on 599 serversTue 03:00 UTC — only 521 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 04:00 UTC — 3,353 players on 592 serversTue 05:00 UTC — 3,354 players on 599 serversTue 06:00 UTC — 3,406 players on 599 serversTue 07:00 UTC — 3,425 players on 584 serversTue 08:00 UTC — only 93 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 09:00 UTC — only 521 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 10:00 UTC — 3,665 players on 592 serversTue 11:00 UTC — 3,828 players on 599 serversTue 12:00 UTC — 4,028 players on 599 serversTue 13:00 UTC — 4,036 players on 592 serversTue 14:00 UTC — only 192 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 15:00 UTC — only 492 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 16:00 UTC — only 521 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 17:00 UTC — 4,613 players on 592 serversTue 18:00 UTC — 4,806 players on 599 serversTue 19:00 UTC — 4,552 players on 599 serversTue 20:00 UTC — 4,103 players on 592 serversTue 21:00 UTC — only 85 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableTue 22:00 UTC — 3,741 players on 599 serversTue 23:00 UTC — 3,489 players on 583 serversWed 00:00 UTC — only 530 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 01:00 UTC — 3,500 players on 599 serversWed 02:00 UTC — 3,311 players on 592 serversWed 03:00 UTC — 3,353 players on 599 serversWed 04:00 UTC — 3,337 players on 599 serversWed 05:00 UTC — 3,404 players on 582 serversWed 06:00 UTC — only 95 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 07:00 UTC — 3,505 players on 599 serversWed 08:00 UTC — only 521 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 09:00 UTC — 3,558 players on 592 serversWed 10:00 UTC — 3,770 players on 599 serversWed 11:00 UTC — 3,868 players on 599 serversWed 12:00 UTC — 3,898 players on 592 serversWed 13:00 UTC — 3,961 players on 584 serversWed 14:00 UTC — only 100 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 15:00 UTC — 4,320 players on 599 serversWed 16:00 UTC — only 514 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 17:00 UTC — 4,520 players on 599 serversWed 18:00 UTC — 4,740 players on 599 serversWed 19:00 UTC — 4,426 players on 592 serversWed 20:00 UTC — 4,081 players on 599 serversWed 21:00 UTC — only 85 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableWed 22:00 UTC — 3,769 players on 592 serversWed 23:00 UTC — only 521 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 00:00 UTC — 3,554 players on 599 serversThu 01:00 UTC — 3,366 players on 592 serversThu 02:00 UTC — 3,413 players on 599 serversThu 03:00 UTC — 3,441 players on 599 serversThu 04:00 UTC — 3,339 players on 590 serversThu 05:00 UTC — only 87 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 06:00 UTC — 3,398 players on 599 serversThu 07:00 UTC — only 521 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 08:00 UTC — 3,496 players on 592 serversThu 09:00 UTC — 3,705 players on 599 serversThu 10:00 UTC — 3,746 players on 599 serversThu 11:00 UTC — 3,804 players on 592 serversThu 12:00 UTC — only 85 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 13:00 UTC — 4,094 players on 599 serversThu 14:00 UTC — only 514 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 15:00 UTC — 4,377 players on 599 serversThu 16:00 UTC — 4,491 players on 599 serversThu 17:00 UTC — 4,523 players on 592 serversThu 18:00 UTC — 4,610 players on 590 serversThu 19:00 UTC — only 94 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 20:00 UTC — 4,207 players on 598 serversThu 21:00 UTC — only 515 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableThu 22:00 UTC — 3,899 players on 599 serversThu 23:00 UTC — 3,746 players on 599 serversFri 00:00 UTC — 3,489 players on 592 serversFri 01:00 UTC — 3,475 players on 599 serversFri 02:00 UTC — only 85 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 03:00 UTC — 3,343 players on 592 serversFri 04:00 UTC — only 521 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 05:00 UTC — 3,352 players on 599 serversFri 06:00 UTC — 3,229 players on 592 serversFri 07:00 UTC — 3,454 players on 599 serversFri 08:00 UTC — 3,642 players on 599 serversFri 09:00 UTC — only 451 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 10:00 UTC — only 226 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 11:00 UTC — only 521 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 12:00 UTC — 3,908 players on 599 serversFri 13:00 UTC — 4,018 players on 592 serversFri 14:00 UTC — 4,276 players on 599 serversFri 15:00 UTC — 4,468 players on 599 serversFri 16:00 UTC — only 78 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 17:00 UTC — 4,452 players on 585 serversFri 18:00 UTC — 4,704 players on 599 serversFri 19:00 UTC — 4,658 players on 599 serversFri 20:00 UTC — only 285 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 21:00 UTC — only 539 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableFri 22:00 UTC — 4,100 players on 599 serversFri 23:00 UTC — only 491 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 00:00 UTC — 3,510 players on 592 serversSat 01:00 UTC — 3,624 players on 599 serversSat 02:00 UTC — only 168 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 03:00 UTC — 3,538 players on 584 serversSat 04:00 UTC — 2,865 players on 562 serversSat 05:00 UTC — only 509 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 06:00 UTC — 3,407 players on 599 serversSat 07:00 UTC — 2,918 players on 566 serversSat 08:00 UTC — only 168 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 09:00 UTC — 3,833 players on 599 serversSat 10:00 UTC — 3,056 players on 547 serversSat 11:00 UTC — only 517 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 12:00 UTC — 4,022 players on 591 serversSat 13:00 UTC — 3,681 players on 573 serversSat 14:00 UTC — only 255 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 15:00 UTC — only 505 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 16:00 UTC — 3,810 players on 554 serversSat 17:00 UTC — only 517 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 18:00 UTC — 4,622 players on 584 serversSat 19:00 UTC — 3,943 players on 573 serversSat 20:00 UTC — only 353 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 21:00 UTC — only 414 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSat 22:00 UTC — 3,313 players on 547 serversSat 23:00 UTC — 3,890 players on 599 serversSun 00:00 UTC — only 509 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 01:00 UTC — 3,690 players on 599 serversSun 02:00 UTC — 2,857 players on 566 serversSun 03:00 UTC — only 168 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 04:00 UTC — 2,918 players on 554 serversSun 05:00 UTC — 3,443 players on 599 serversSun 06:00 UTC — only 502 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 07:00 UTC — 3,110 players on 573 serversSun 08:00 UTC — 3,624 players on 599 serversSun 09:00 UTC — only 161 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 10:00 UTC — 3,184 players on 554 serversSun 11:00 UTC — 4,099 players on 599 serversSun 12:00 UTC — only 509 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 13:00 UTC — 3,634 players on 566 serversSun 14:00 UTC — 4,598 players on 599 serversSun 15:00 UTC — only 168 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 16:00 UTC — 3,773 players on 554 serversSun 17:00 UTC — only 517 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 18:00 UTC — 4,858 players on 599 serversSun 19:00 UTC — 4,671 players on 592 serversSun 20:00 UTC — 4,498 players on 599 serversSun 21:00 UTC — 3,986 players on 591 serversSun 22:00 UTC — only 138 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableSun 23:00 UTC — 3,621 players on 592 serversMon 00:00 UTC — 2,936 players on 540 serversMon 01:00 UTC — only 535 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 02:00 UTC — 3,376 players on 592 serversMon 03:00 UTC — 3,381 players on 591 serversMon 04:00 UTC — only 436 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 05:00 UTC — only 294 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparableMon 06:00 UTC — only 476 of 599 servers were reached this hour, so its total is not comparable
Mon 06:00 UTCMon 06:00 UTC
Busiest hour measured
4,858 at Sun 18:00 UTC
Quietest hour measured
2,857 at Sun 02:00 UTC
Latest sweep
3,381 players
Hours plotted
112 of 169

57 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

3,483
Players here

on the 522 servers JoinGG reached

1,233
In game (Valve)

everyone running it anywhere, per Steam

These two count different things

Players here is ours: people connected to the Counter-Strike: Source servers JoinGG lists, counted by asking each server. In game (Valve) is Steam's live count of everyone running Counter-Strike: Source 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: Source servers we list (3,483) than Valve reports for the entire game (1,233). 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: Source 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: Source 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
Москва | BLACK DRAGON | PUBLIC |18+de_dust290 / 128126 msRussia 🇷🇺
(FOX) █►►► PERFECT FOX 100TICK PUBLIC 18+ ◄◄◄█de_frost46 / 6491 msRussia 🇷🇺
G.3.X // NSBR DEATHMATCH Bora meter bala! ︻┳═一de_dust241 / 64568 msBrazil 🇧🇷
【NoMad Fury】|Zombies Reloaded|nomad-fury.comzm_panic39 / 40265 msUnited States 🇺🇸
EXODUS | Aim bot Training dd2de_dust236 / 3844 msRussia 🇷🇺
[V34] ★ CYBER X COMMUNITY ★ PUBLIC [18+]de_mirage_csgo_v236 / 6458 msRussia 🇷🇺
▅ ▆ ▇ US | DUST 2 DEATHMATCH #1 // c2Play.de ★ Rankedde_dust235 / 649 msUnited States 🇺🇸
c400.ru CS:Source Server [de_dust only]de_dust34 / 6451 msRussia 🇷🇺
=(eGO)= | DUST2 | 100 TICK | NO AWPS/AUTOS | EdgeGamers.comde_dust233 / 64223 msUnited States 🇺🇸
Zombie Revival ● NiDE.GG ● NoSteam|Unlimited Ammo|Shopzm_dream_4life_night_fix33 / 6538 msFrance 🇫🇷
All 599 Counter-Strike: Source 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: Source servers report they are running, not from what their names say.

Deathmatch56Surf39Zombie34Gun Game32Bunny Hop24Jailbreak18Minigames18AWP14Climb4Deathrun3Trouble in Terrorist Town1Retake1Roleplay1

Counter-Strike: Source player counts — the questions

Is Counter-Strike: Source still alive in 2026?
Yes, and this is the measurement rather than an opinion. 3,483 players are on the 522 Counter-Strike: Source servers JoinGG is reaching right now, of 599 listed. Across the 112 hours covered well enough to compare, that count has run between 2,857 and 4,858. Every one of those numbers came from asking the servers themselves.
When is Counter-Strike: Source busiest?
Around 18:00 UTC. Averaged over 7 days of readings, that hour carries about 4,706 players across the Counter-Strike: Source servers listed here.
How many Counter-Strike: Source servers are there?
599 Counter-Strike: Source servers are listed on JoinGG, and 522 of them answered the last status query. The other 77 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: Source player count?
They measure different populations. Steam counts everybody running Counter-Strike: Source anywhere right now — official matchmaking, single-player, community servers and idle menus — and reports 1,233. We count people connected to the 522 Counter-Strike: Source servers we reached, which is 3,483. 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 599 Counter-Strike: Source 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: Source 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.

Minecraft36,744FiveM31,598Counter-Strike 1.67,744Team Fortress 21,995Garry's Mod1,508Counter-Strike 21,100Counter-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