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Wikipedia[3] gives the release date as 27 September 2023, and Stuff[4] South Africa's report of the full release, posted the next day, describes the switchover as happening the previous evening, on Valve's CS account at about 22:40 CEST; PC Gamer's[1] launch report carries the same date.Valve released Counter-Strike 2 on 27 September 2023, replacing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on the same Steam page as a free update built on the Source 2 engine. It is Steam's most-played game this week, with a peak of 1,160,588 concurrent players in the week to 2 October 2026.
