Few game series have ever captured the public imagination and maintained an audience as significant as Counter Strike, with millions of players logging in every day to take out enemy squads across several action-packed maps.
If you go and look at the Steam statistics on any given day, you'll see that Counter-Strike 2 is some distance clear of the next most played game, regularly surpassing one million concurrent players, far beyond a peak that most games would ever dream of.
Before the sequel, the same was true for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO), and that game being removed from the Steam storefront for the sequel was a highly controversial move at the time, even if it has paid off in spades since. Now, the OG tactical FPS is back, and you can download and play it with the community right now.
As first reported by Dot Esports, if you head over to Steam right now, you should be able to find that the store page for CS:GO is back, allowing players to download it and jump online once again.
Once installed, it will go into your library as a separate game like any other, available to play whenever...
