PLAY-CS.com It has servers in Russia, Canada, India, the United States, Brazil, and Germany. You can enter them for free and play all kinds of game modes without registering or paying anything, being able to play maps like de_dust, de_dust2, cs_assault, and cs_italy. You can also create your own private server to play with friends, although this option is paid. Works with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge.
To play Counter-Strike for free we have to go to the website of PLAY-CS.com which was previously CS-ONLINE.CLUB. In it we select the servers of the area in which we want to play (It is advisable to choose Germany or Russia due to the proximity to Spain), and we give it to save. Now, we go to the section where the available servers appear, and we click Connect.
Once we give Connect, will download all the necessary materials to be able to play the game. This time will vary depending on your computer and your connection. When entering another server, the only thing we will have to wait is for it to download specific custom things from that server (sounds, sprites, etc.), which usually does not take more than 5 or 10 seconds.
From there, we can already play in the browser comfortably to the game, where we are assigned a name of “Player” followed by a random number. Performance is pretty good for browser gaming, and the ping on a German server is 60 ms, compared to 90 ms on a Russian one.
In the case of wanting a private server, we can pay for one and the price will vary depending on the slots you offer us. As we can see, this option is not the best for playing daily, but it can be used to get out of a hurry if we want to play a game with friends from a computer where we can’t install games, such as a company, university or institute computer. If you can install additional elements on the PC, it is best to create the local server to be able to play whatever you want without limits.
From Steam
We can buy Counter Strike “Original” from Steam With a price of 8.19 euros if we want the pack that includes both Counter Strike and Condition Zero. This will allow us to play more “long term” than the previous option, it allows us to play the original shooter launched in the late nineties and, for many, the best of all those that have come out in the last thirty years.
The title is in Spanish and we can download it on Windows or macOS as long as we pay for its purchase, but it will be worth investing less than ten euros in one of the best video games of all time.
The requirements in Windows They are minimum 500 MHz processor, 96 MB of RAM, 16 MB video card, Windows XP, mouse, keyboard and Internet connection. But what Steam recommends is to have, at a minimum, 800 MHz processor, 128 MB of RAM, 32 MB video card, Windows XP, mouse, keyboard and Internet connection. For its part, the minimum recommended for Mac is OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3, 1GB RAM, 4GB hard disk, NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher or Intel HD 3000 or higher. In addition, peripherals such as mouse, keyboard … and the Internet.
Counter Strike: Source
Although not as popular as others on this list, Counter-Strike: Source or CS: S is another video game in the series that was originally released as a Half Life mod but eventually became a title on its own. It is an FPS that arrived in 2004 and that we can get through Steam for a price of 8.19 euros.
It is not a free game but we can buy it for less than ten euros and bet on better graphics than the original and with a new game engine. We can buy it for Windows or for MacOS individually or in a pack with other titles in the series. For example, the Counter-Strike Complete that allows us buy this title together with Condition Zero for a price of approximately 10.65 euros.
The minimum requirements to have it in Windows are: 1.7 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, DirectX® 8.1 compatible graphics (requires SSE compatibility), Windows® 7 (32 and 64 bits) / Vista / XP, mouse, keyboard and Internet connection . But the recommended requirements to install it in the operating system with Microsoft are minimum: Pentium 4 processor (3 GHz or more), 1 GB of RAM, graphics compatible with DirectX® 9, Windows® 7 (32 and 64 bits) / Vista / XP , mouse, keyboard, internet connection. For its part, the minimum requirements on Mac are: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8 or Snow Leopard 10.6.3, 1 GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher or Intel HD 3000 or higher. Mouse, keyboard and internet connection.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
The Counter Strike: Global Offensive or CS: GO is a first person shooter released in 2012 for all types of platforms. It was launched for a price of around eleven euros for Xbox, Windows, Mac or PlayStation, but now we can play for free by downloading the title from Steam on the official page.
Of all the Counter Strike games available on Steam we can download CS: GO as a free to play title from web page. We simply need to have an account and download. Is completely in spanish the interface and yes we can pay up to 12.75 euros if we want the Prime Status Upgrade that gives us a series of improvements and advantages, but it is totally optional and it is not necessary.
The minimum requirements in Windows are Windows 7, Vista or XP or higher, an Intel® Core ™ 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom ™ X3 8750 processor, minimum 2 GB of RAM memory, 256 MB or more graphics card compatible with DirectX 9 and Pixel Shader 3.0 and have a minimum of DirectX version 9.0c. Plus 15GB of available disk space. On Mac we need at least OS X 10.11 or later, Intel Core Duo 2GHz processor or later, minimum 2 GB of RAM, 15 GB of available space and, in terms of graphics, you will need to have ATI Radeon HD 2400 or higher / NVIDIA 8600M or higher.
Also, from the Counter Strike blog we can find information on creating maps for CS: Go or creating weapon finishes. All kinds of tutorials and help for fans of the saga who can find more available information and a large community on the official blog, as well as news and updates.
Counter-Strike Nexon
Also from Steam we can play Counter-Strike Nexon: Studio for free launched in 2014 and without any cost or premium subscription, we just have to download it from the platform and start playing. It unites the essence of all Counter Strike games with the survival in a zombie apocalypse. You have to survive on the classic maps, but use new weapons to kill the walkers.
A title that has several modes available and some of the classics like bomb disposal, for example, or hostage rescue. But also other new recommended modes about zombies, for example. As to maps, includes the originals of Counter Strike and Condition Zero but also has more originals and more than 50 in total that we can use in its different available modes.