CS2 Player Count Falls for Seventh Straight Month
Counter-Strike 2 is still one of the biggest games on Steam. But "still big" and "still growing" are not the same thing, and right now CS2 is only managing the first.
According to dust2.us, the game's average player count dropped again in September 2026, landing at roughly 805,000. That makes it the seventh month in a row that the average has gone down, and the lowest monthly figure since February 2024. On its own, one bad month wouldn't mean much. Seven in a row looks like a trend.
A streak nobody wanted
The streak is the notable part. Per the dust2.us report, no stretch of falling averages this long has happened before, across both CS2 and its predecessor, CS:GO. That covers a lot of history, so this is not a quiet blip in the margins. September isn't an outlier. It's the latest step in a slide that has been building since early in the year.