Is Counter-Strike 2 still popular?

Short answer: yes. Counter-Strike 2 sits comfortably among the most-played games on Steam, regularly pulling well over a million concurrent players.

The snapshot below is taken directly from the Steam Web API and refreshes every hour. For a deeper look at trends over time, head to the player count history page.

Concurrent players is one of the cleanest signals of whether a game is alive or fading. Unlike monthly active users or sales numbers, it cannot be inflated by promotions — it shows who is actually playing right now.

For CS2, the average sits around 1 million concurrent players, with peaks well above that during weekends and major tournaments.