Beta · 1-2 GB · 32 players · South Africa
Counter-Strike 1.6
The original, and it still runs on nothing
R59per month
Why this is not on general sale
Almost certainly fine on the budget node, but we have not run it long enough to promise it.
What it is
Counter-Strike is a 2000 tactical first-person shooter game developed by Valve Corporation and published by Sierra Studios. It is the first installment in the Counter-Strike series.
Counter-Strike WikiRun by players on Fandom, not by us. Where you look up recipes, commands and server config for Counter-Strike 1.6. Description from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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.
- 1GB5 private playersR59/mo
- 2GB5 private playersR89/mo
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 2026-08-24
