Is Counter Strike 2 Steam Deck compatible?

Aden Carter

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Do you want to play Counter-Strike 2 on your Steam Deck? There is no denying that CS2’s predecessor is one of the more popular multiplayer games available. For ages, players have needed to use a mouse and keyboard if they want to play Counter-Strike.

The new game being created by Valve is supposed to release sometime in the summer for PC, Linux, and MAC. Previous games from Valve like CS: Global Offensive and Half-Life: Alyx both run perfectly on Steam Deck. CS2 will have multiple game modes and bring back many of the maps from the previous game.

There are many questions surrounding CS2 because Valve hasn’t provided many answers. You’ll have to find out if it’s just for a good gaming laptop or if the game is coming to Xbox Series X/S perhaps? Since Valve makes the Steam Deck, it’s pretty easy to know if it is Steam Deck compatible.

Can you play Counter-Strike 2 on Steam Deck?

Counter-Strike 2 is available on the Steam Deck. The official Steam page for CS2 confirms that the game can be run on the Steam Deck. The only stipulation is that some of the text is small and difficult to read. Everything else works fine on the Steam Deck.

The Steam Deck has received games from a lot of other developers and has shown impressive performance with games that are more demanding than Counter-Strike 2. Not to mention the already impressive performance the device has shown when playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Thanks to this and the fact that the game is being made by Valve, we knew the game would be Steam Deck compatible when it launched. Hopefully, Valve has confirmed our assumption, just not through an official announcement about Steam Deck compatibility before the release.

After Counter-Strike 2 released, the message on Steam Deck compatibility was put on the Steam Store page. The game is playable and has most of its features converted to the handheld device.