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CS2D
CS2D is a free fast-paced top-down multiplayer shooter. Featuring many different game modes, a built-in map editor and much more.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.
“Lots of fun! Especially if you're in to counter strike! Definitely check this out and give it a try!”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“I remember playing this game on my parents' old, dying Dell Latitude D630 running Windows Vista. I was always on the lookout for free games. This game... is kinda incredible, especially considering the development studio, Unreal Software, is actually run by just one person:…”
— a player, Steam review · 34 hrs played“It's fun for the novelty of playing Counter Strike in a 2D format. I enjoyed the 10 minutes. But I will probably never play it again lol”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-26.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
CS2D 1.0.1.8 Patch 2
Today CS2D 1.0.1.8 Patch 2 was released. This is mainly a bug fix release. Also some people complained that they can't control the game via mouse and keyboard anymore while having a controller connect
Update 1.0.1.8
I already released this update a few days ago but I broke a few things. Sorry about that. Therefore I released a hotfix today. I expect several things to be still broken because this is a major step f
Update 1.0.1.7
CS2D 1.01.7 is here. This is a major new release, because the game was finally migrated to BlitzMax NG, which is a newer version of the engine. Highlights are various bug fixes, controller support and
New U.S.G.N. Master Server
Dear CS2D Community,Are you running your own CS2D server? ːsteamthumbsupː If yes: Please keep reading! Action required! ːsteamthumbsdownː If no: You can safely skip these news.The U.S.G.N. master serv
CS2D 1.015 Update
Another small maintenance update! Here are the changes Thanks again to EngiN33R for his contributions (marked with his name). inentityzone now correctly handles custom area entities (EngiN33R) os.info
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Casual, Indie, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Free to Play · 2D · Shooter · Multiplayer · Action · Top-Down Shooter · Casual · Indie · Top-Down · Zombies · FPS · Funny (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Finnish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Czech, Turkish, Hungarian, Traditional Chine… |
| Achievements | 66 |
| Official site | http://www.cs2d.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Win 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11 Processor: 1 GHZ Memory: 256 MB RAM Graphics: 64 MB 3D video card with DirectX OR OpenGL support DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 50 MB available space