Steam: CS2 is now one of Valve’s lowest rated games

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Counter-Strike 2 is one of Valve’s worst games on Steam almost 2 weeks after its release. Only a trading card game is worse.

Counter-Strike 2 celebrated its release on September 27th and officially replaced CS:GO as the successor. The tactical shooter came with some changes such as revised maps, a new ranked mode, polished optics and an overhaul of the smoke grenades.

The CS2 also brought some problems that bothered fans and therefore rated the title poorly on Steam – Valve’s own platform. This includes, for example, a bug that affected characters’ hitboxes while crouching/crouching.

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What are the CS2 reviews? Since Counter-Strike 2 uses the same Steam shop page as CS:GO before it, the reviews of the tactical shooter look better at first glance than they actually are – a strong 88% of all 7.6 million (!) reviews are positive .

However, if you only look at the reviews that have been submitted since September 28th, i.e. the day after the CS2 release, the tenor is significantly worse. Of 99,502 reviews, only 55% are positive, i.e. 45% of all players rate CS2 negatively (as of October 10th, 6:00 p.m., via Steam).

This makes CS2 one of Valve’s worst rated games. Only a trading card game called “Artifact” fares even worse. While “Artifact Classic” has 46.79% positive reviews, “Artifact Foundry” has 54.89% (via SteamDB).

What do players say in their reviews? Above all, players miss CS:GO and the scope that the tactical shooter achieved over the years and lost with the switch to CS2. There is also criticism for the servers, matchmaking and the ongoing cheater problem.

  • “Abysmal matchmaking (via Steam)”
  • “Valve just released an unfinished game to completely delete CS:GO. Sorry, but why Valve? (via Steam)”
  • “It’s great that you brought a new engine with new graphics and new effects out of the basement and put it into the game, but did you completely throw out the matchmaking and anti-cheat, or what is the premise now (via Steam)?”
  • “The CS2 update is simply unfinished. It looks nice, but it’s about 10% of what CS:GO used to be. Maybe you’ll come back in a year or so (via Steam).”
  • “No more balancing, no more community maps for training, all spray patterns have been changed. I’m not interested in this crap anymore (via Steam).”
  • “The CS2 release feels a bit rushed, to be honest. The lack of content in CS2 is noticeable. […] CSGO was a great game and I hope CS2 will be one very soon (via Steam).”

    • It’s not just normal players who are currently not very enthusiastic about CS2. With s1mple, one of the most successful CS players of all time also criticizes the tactical shooter:

    One of the best Counter-Strike players of all time says you shouldn’t play CS2 right now

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