11,586 people are playing Counter-Strike 1.6 on Steam right now. Read from Valve every ten minutes, last .
as Steam reports it
of the official chart
8,330,790 players on them
Peak 11,586 · 24 points from ten-minute samples · recording since Sep 1
recorded since September 2026
| Month | Avg. players | Gain | % Gain | Peak | Hours played |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 20261d | 10,979 | — | 11,586 |
Everybody with Counter-Strike 1.6 open on Steam — single-player, matchmaking, official servers and community ones alike. It is Valve’s own figure, not an estimate: LobbyHub reads it every ten minutes and keeps the samples, which is what the graph above is drawn from.
The peak is Steam’s 24-hour high rather than the tallest point we happened to sample, so it can sit above everything on the graph.
Hours played is ours rather than Valve’s — they publish no playtime figure at all. Each reading stands for the ten minutes until the next one, so a month of them adds up to player-hours. It counts hours we observed, which means a month we started recording halfway through says half.
We monitor 253,384 Counter-Strike 1.6 servers, 116,397 of them answering right now with 8,330,790 players between them. That is a different count from the one above: it is measured by querying each machine rather than asked of Steam.
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