Set up by us · 1-2 GB · 32 players · South Africa
Counter-Strike 1.6
The original, and it still runs on nothing
- Per month
- R79
- Peak players
- 11,345
- Positive on Steam
- 97%
Set up by us
Almost certainly fine on the budget node, but we have not run it long enough to promise it. We build it by hand and check it before handover.
Order it like any other server. One of us sets it up, checks it, and hands over the same console, files and backups every server gets.
Plans
Sized for Counter-Strike 1.6.
Twenty five years on, still the cheapest competitive server you can run and still packed at LAN nights.
- Peak players
- 11,345Busier than 78% of the games we host. Our own reading, 4 so far.
- What players think
- 97%Of 261,440 reviews on Steam. Overwhelmingly Positive.
1 to 2GB, against every plan we sell
- 1GB5 playersR79
- 2GB5 playersR99
- 4GB10 playersR189
- 6GB10 playersR249
- 8GB20 playersR329
- 12GB20 playersR499
The solid bar is the smallest plan that runs Counter-Strike 1.6. Faded bars run it with room to spare. Greyed plans sit outside its range. Player counts are what the plan carries, not a benchmark of this game.
How busy it is
Counter-Strike 1.6 against the other shooter games.
Peak concurrent players on Steam, measured rather than estimated. Bars are to scale against each other, so a game almost nobody plays looks like one.
- Counter-Strike 21,184,605
- Team Fortress 256,934
- Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord42,483
- Left 4 Dead 232,426
- Arma Reforger14,413
- Counter-Strike 1.611,345
- SCP: Secret Laboratory8,866
- Arma 37,970
Running a Counter-Strike 1.6 server
Patch notes, guides and the commands you need.
Release notes come from the developer. Everything else goes to the game's own wiki, written by the people who play it.
- 2026-04-09World of Warcraft gets a perfect recreation of Counter-Strike's most iconic map, and it's even got GoosePCGamesN
- 2026-01-12You can now play Counter-Strike 1.6 in VR thanks to the modders who already gave Half-Life and Doom the same treatmentPCGamesN
- 2026-01-02Development of a Counter-Strike 1.6 remake has been "frozen" as Valve silence leaves its future in doubtPCGamesN
- 2025-07-28Counter-Strike Source soars to 13-year Steam high, and GMod may be the culpritPCGamesN
Last checked 2026-08-25
What players say
Counter-Strike 1.6, in the words of people who play it.
Three reviews from Steam, picked by how many other players found them helpful. About the game, not about us, unedited, and linked so you can check.
I discovered this game as a HL mod when I was 15 (patch 1.5 back then) I played SOOO much. Like 6 hours a day. Relenetlessly. I got so good mechanically... this game was my heroin. I am SOOOOO mad that all my play time was pre Steam, so the time I invested into this never got logged. 36.7 hours my ass :(
37 hours played23 found it helpfulRead it on Steam
01/03
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Counter-Strike 1.6, private from the first minute.
Hosted in South Africa from R79 a month, with the players and the file access already in the price.