Counter-Strike 2's Steam rating: what «Very Positive» means

18 August 2026 · 4 min read

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This piece is based on the official Counter-Strike 2 Steam store page — every number below comes from there, as recorded on the measurement date.

What Steam shows on the game’s page

As of the measurement date, Counter-Strike 2’s overall Steam rating is «Very Positive», which Steam expresses as the number 8 on its own 0-to-9 scale.

Here is the full breakdown behind that label:

Steam calculates this total across reviews in all languages and across all purchase types for the game — those are exactly the two parameters behind the summary figure shown on the store page. That matters: the total is not broken down separately by review language or by how a player obtained the game.

Where the «Very Positive» label comes from

Steam doesn’t show a plain star average on a game’s page — instead, it translates the share of positive reviews into a text label and, alongside it, a number from 0 to 9. For Counter-Strike 2, that number is 8, and the label next to it is «Very Positive». Both describe the same underlying total: 86.0% positive out of 9,789,882 reviews left.

Why the share matters more than the count

Close to ten million reviews is a large number on its own, but it says nothing about whether the game is liked: a huge review count is entirely possible for a game with mostly negative reviews too. What’s telling is the share: 86.0% positive means roughly 14 out of every 100 players who left a review rated the game negatively. Steam’s label is built on that percentage, not on how many positive or negative votes piled up in absolute terms.

That’s why it makes sense to compare games by their share of positive reviews rather than by which one has more positive reviews “on the surface”: a game with millions of reviews at 86% positive and a game with a far smaller audience but the same percentage get the exact same text label from Steam.

Why a low aggregate score doesn’t necessarily mean a bad game

The overall rating is a single summary snapshot covering the entire time the game has been collecting reviews. One number blends reviews left across very different periods of the game’s life, by different players, for different reasons. The store page doesn’t publish why any specific player clicked “not recommended” — there’s no mandatory reason field behind the total, and no breakdown of motives by category. So drawing a conclusion about a specific cause — technical, gameplay-related, or anything else — from the aggregate percentage alone isn’t warranted: that percentage shows “how many,” not “why.”

If you’re interested in the wider context around the game, there’s a separate guide on what changed when CS:GO became CS2 — it covers the official changes, without guessing at review motives.

What is not officially stated

• Steam does not publish the reasons individual players left a negative or positive review.
• There is no breakdown of the total by review language or purchase type, even though those are exactly the two parameters (all languages, all purchase types) behind the overall figure.
• There is no history of how the rating has changed over time — the page shows the total as of the measurement date, not a chart by day or month.
• There is no breakdown by platform or player region.

If you’re curious how the trust system between players in matches works, there’s a separate guide on Trust Factor in CS2 — a separate official matchmaking mechanism, unrelated to the review system.

In short

As of the measurement date, Counter-Strike 2 held a «Very Positive» Steam rating (8 out of 9) with 86.0% positive reviews out of 9,789,882 left. Steam does not officially disclose the reasons behind specific negative reviews — the page shows only the ratio, not the motives of the people who wrote them.