Counter-Strike has been one of the most popular games on Steam for over a decade but the game is showing no signs of slowing down. Just this past week, Counter-Strike 2 surpassed its old record and hit a new peak concurrent player milestone. 

Not all players were happy about the transition from CS:GO to Counter-Strike 2, but that hasn't stopped the game from growing to new heights. The first Premier season for CS2 just wrapped up and Premier Season Two officially launched, introducing the new version of the map ‘Train' to the competitive map pool. As a result, players have been flooding back into Counter-Strike 2, leading to a new peak player count.

On the 16th of February, Counter-Strike 2 reached a peak concurrent player count of over 1.744 million. This happened around the afternoon in Europe, just as America was waking up and Asia was going to sleep, which indicates how strong the playerbase for Counter-Strike is in European regions.

Counter-Strike 2 has not yet surpassed the all-time high player count from CS:GO, which hit over 1.8 million concurrent players in 2023. Counter-Strike 2 isn't far behind though, and all it takes is one new operation and a set of new skins, or a new competitive season to send the numbers flying back up.

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