If you don’t like Counter-Strike 2, CSGO is back on Steam, kind of
Counter-Strike 2 has enormous boots to fill, and it’s still early days. As the successor to the most popular multiplayer shooter of all time, Valve’s new FPS naturally needs a little time to settle and ease in. CS2 could be better than CSGO, but perhaps, less than a month after launch, we’re not there yet. At the same time, Counter-Strike players have been understandably frustrated about CSGO being – seemingly – removed from the internet forever. But actually, that’s not the case. If you’re not a fan of Counter-Strike 2, or maybe want to give it a bit more time before making the transition, you can still play CSGO on Steam.
Between the new Counter-Strike 2 skins system and Counter-Strike 2 crosshairs, there’s plenty to get your head around for the new generation of Valve’s stalwart FPS game. Counter-Strike 2 has been met with some varied player responses (more on that later) with a lot of criticism directed at the fact that it seems to have completely superseded and replaced Counter-Strike Global Offensive. After more than a decade of CSGO, it’s hard to say goodbye, especially when the new iteration is still subject to issues. But actually, CSGO is still playable, and via Steam no less.
A legacy version of CSGO is now accessible via the Counter-Strike 2 Steam library. If you want to get in, all you need to do is find CS2 in your Steam library, right click, select ‘properties,’ then select ‘betas.’ In the drop-down menu, you should find an option for the CSGO legacy version. This is a frozen build of Global Offensive that you can, in theory, play forever. But there’s a catch.
Official matchmaking for CSGO is no longer supported. Similarly, on Monday, January 1, 2024, Valve will no longer offer any support for CSGO
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