The Counter-Strike community has speculated about a dozen different release dates for CS2 since the closed beta kicked off in March 2023, and it quickly became clear that everyone was wrong.
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Although the game initially looked similar to CS:GO, Valve made a lot of changes to make CS2 a unique product. Here’s everything you need to know about the CS2 release date and what the new Counter-Strike title has to offer.
After years of development behind closed doors, Counter-Strike 2 is now live and available to all players on September 27, 2023. There have been months of limited beta testing leading up to the game’s launch, but in late September, many woke up to a new era of Counter-Strike.
Before CS2's September 27th launch was announced, Valve revealed on September 13th that CS2 would be launching "soon." This announcement was made via Steam's 20th anniversary page. On Wednesday, September 20th, the official Counter-Strike X/Twitter account asked what people were planning to do on Wednesday, September 27th. This inevitably led fans to assume that CS2 would be released on that date.
