Your birth year
2006
Counter-Strike
2000Shooter
Counter-Strike is 6 years older than you
It's from 2000, before you were born.
- Developer
- Valve
- Genre
- Tactical first-person shooter
- Origin
- Half-Life mod (2000)
- Released
- 2000
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About
As of 2026, it's 26 years old.
Counter-Strike started in 1999 as a fan mod for Half-Life and accidentally became one of the most-played competitive games of all time — terrorists versus counter-terrorists, one life per round, and an entire global esports economy built on planting and defusing a single bomb.
Its punishing 'one death and you wait' format made every round tense and every teammate's mistake personally devastating, which is somehow the appeal.
Tactical, unforgiving, and eternally popular, Counter-Strike is the humble mod that grew up to be a professional sport played for millions of dollars.
