CS 1.6 player count (2026)
How many people play Counter-Strike 1.6 right now, counted from the public server list every five minutes. Updated 16:41 UTC on 3 November 2026.
At 16:41 UTC on 3 November 2026, at least 5,312 people were playing Counter-Strike 1.6 on public servers, and at most 12,071, according to Combat Skirmish’s scan of the public Counter-Strike 1.6 master list. From 4 October 2026 to 3 November 2026 the hourly average was 3,941 people, with a busiest hour of 11,464.
CS 1.6 player count right now
At 16:41 UTC on 3 November 2026, 5,312 people were playing Counter-Strike 1.6 on 465 public servers with no bot or fake-player flag, according to Combat Skirmish’s scan of the public Counter-Strike 1.6 master list.
At the same moment those servers and the flagged ones reported 15,696 players in total, 2,639 of which were bots the servers declare themselves.
At the same moment, 73 listings were the same server under a second address, so their 986 players are counted once, under the original.
The 723 flagged servers carried 6,759 more players who are not declared as bots; we leave all of them out, real people included, because those servers show bot or fake clients they do not declare or pad their count.
So the real number at 16:41 UTC on 3 November 2026 was at least 5,312 and at most 12,071.
| At 16:41 UTC on 3 November 2026 | Players |
|---|---|
| Reported by 1,889 listed servers | 15,696 |
| Bots the servers declare | −2,639 |
| Players on 73 duplicate listings (counted under the original) | −986 |
| Upper bound: every player who is not a declared bot | 12,071 |
| Non-bot players on 723 flagged servers | −6,759 |
| Lower bound: people on unflagged servers | 5,312 |
CS 1.6 player count over the last 30 days
From 4 October 2026 to 3 November 2026, an average of 3,941 people were on unflagged public CS 1.6 servers in any given hour, according to Combat Skirmish’s scan of the public Counter-Strike 1.6 master list.
The busiest hour in that period was 18:00 UTC on 2 November 2026, with 11,464 people.
The quietest was 02:00 UTC on 5 October 2026, with 1,813 people.
An average of 1,278 servers were listed in each of those hours, between 767 and 4,087.
The list grows when our weekly verification sweep (Sundays) finds servers the master list was not returning, and the count rises with it: more listed servers means more people we can see, not necessarily more people playing.
Each hour is the median of its five-minute readings (718 hours).
When is CS 1.6 busiest? Players by hour of day (UTC)
From 4 October 2026 to 3 November 2026, CS 1.6 was busiest at 17:00 UTC, averaging 5,422 people, according to Combat Skirmish’s scan of the public Counter-Strike 1.6 master list.
It was quietest at 02:00 UTC, averaging 2,464 people.
| Hour (UTC) | Average people | |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 2,690 | |
| 01:00 | 2,538 | |
| 02:00 | 2,464 | |
| 03:00 | 2,486 | |
| 04:00 | 2,594 | |
| 05:00 | 2,825 | |
| 06:00 | 3,182 | |
| 07:00 | 3,500 | |
| 08:00 | 3,840 | |
| 09:00 | 4,200 | |
| 10:00 | 4,358 | |
| 11:00 | 4,518 | |
| 12:00 | 4,644 | |
| 13:00 | 4,731 | |
| 14:00 | 4,937 | |
| 15:00 | 5,081 | |
| 16:00 | 5,274 | |
| 17:00 | 5,422 | |
| 18:00 | 5,363 | |
| 19:00 | 5,067 | |
| 20:00 | 4,484 | |
| 21:00 | 3,929 | |
| 22:00 | 3,364 | |
| 23:00 | 2,963 |
CS 1.6 players by country (server location)
At 16:41 UTC on 3 November 2026, servers located in Russia held the most people, 1,632 across 221 servers, according to Combat Skirmish’s scan of the public Counter-Strike 1.6 master list.
Grouped by where each SERVER is, from its address; a server cannot tell us where its players are. Countries with fewer than 5 unflagged servers are not listed.
| Server country | Servers | People | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 221 | 1,632 | |
| Germany | 256 | 1,500 | |
| Poland | 77 | 441 | |
| Romania | 88 | 435 | |
| United Kingdom | 24 | 246 | |
| Ukraine | 62 | 194 | |
| Türkiye | 31 | 173 | |
| France | 51 | 131 | |
| Bulgaria | 20 | 112 | |
| Kazakhstan | 19 | 102 | |
| Netherlands | 19 | 60 | |
| United States | 27 | 54 |
Most played CS 1.6 maps right now
At 16:41 UTC on 3 November 2026, the most played CS 1.6 map was de_dust2_2x2, with 199 people on 58 servers, according to Combat Skirmish’s scan of the public Counter-Strike 1.6 master list.
Maps on at least 2 unflagged servers that are in our map catalogue. Each map links to its live server list.
| Map | Servers | People | |
|---|---|---|---|
| de_dust2_2x2 | 58 | 199 | |
| de_dust | 36 | 114 | |
| de_dust2002 | 3 | 61 | |
| de_winternuke | 2 | 60 | |
| cs_italy | 14 | 58 | |
| de_nuke_rarea | 2 | 56 | |
| ze_firstideaof_escapebeta3 | 2 | 55 | |
| de_dust2_3x3 | 4 | 51 | |
| de_berzerker | 2 | 46 | |
| css_dust2 | 3 | 45 |
CS 1.6 players by game mode
At 16:41 UTC on 3 November 2026, Bomb Defusal was the most played CS 1.6 mode, with 2,964 people (60% of those with a recognised mode), according to Combat Skirmish’s scan of the public Counter-Strike 1.6 master list.
The mode comes from the map prefix, or from the mode plugin a server announces in its rules. Every game mode.
| Mode | Servers | People | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bomb Defusal | 518 | 2,964 | 60% |
| Zombie Mod | 119 | 762 | 15% |
| Deathmatch | 108 | 566 | 11% |
| Hostage Rescue | 114 | 308 | 6% |
| Gun Game | 30 | 144 | 3% |
| Aim Arena | 38 | 107 | 2% |
| AWP | 23 | 79 | 2% |
| Jailbreak | 21 | 29 | 1% |
| Assassination | 7 | 8 | 0% |
| Knife Arena | 2 | 4 | 0% |
| Surf | 6 | 3 | 0% |
| Bunny Hop | 4 | 3 | 0% |
| Kreedz Climbing | 2 | 2 | 0% |
| Death Run | 4 | 1 | 0% |
CS 1.6 Steam player count vs. the server count
At 16:43 UTC on 3 November 2026, Steam’s own Web API reported 11,899 people running Counter-Strike 1.6 (Steam app 10).
That is the figure SteamCharts and SteamDB chart, and it measures something different from this page.
Steam counts every Steam client with the game open, including players in the menu, on LAN, and on servers that never list themselves publicly.
Steam does not count players on non-Steam clients, which most public CS 1.6 servers admit (see the server statistics).
The server count on this page sees every listed public server, whatever client its players use, and nothing that is not listed.
Neither number contains the other, so they cannot be added or subtracted to get a total.
How the CS 1.6 player count is measured
Every five minutes we ask each server on the public Counter-Strike 1.6 master list for its player count, its bot count and its player list.
A bot is a player the server itself declares as a bot.
A server is flagged, and its players left out, when its player list shows clients that never leave or that join in a timed cohort, when its players are named as bots, when it will not show its player list at all, when it pads its count with fake traffic, or when it is a duplicate listing of another server.
Password-protected, private and LAN servers are invisible to the master list, so they are not counted.
This is the same count as the live number on the Combat Skirmish home page, measured from one vantage point.
For a written look at what the numbers mean, read Do people still play CS 1.6?