Steam review bomb

Counter-Strike 2 review bomb

A sustained complaint rather than a wave. Cheating is the top complaint theme in Counter-Strike 2's OneStar report across the last year, through Valve's September 2025 anti cheat update, with no single week standing out against the median. Read as OneStar reads it, the September 15, 2025 wave was a real problem: complaints about the build that stayed. The counts below are Steam's own.

The wave, counted

Counter-Strike 2 against its own median

The card shows the week or month that held the event as Steam counts it, against the game's median week or month, and whether it clears the rule OneStar uses: at least 20 reviews and more than 5 times the median.

Counter-Strike 2

Real problem

70,576reviews in September 2025, against a median month of 59,701

18%thumbs down that month, after 20% the month before

1.2xthe median month: under the 5x rule, so no flag

Counter-Strike 2: 9,963,792 reviews in all, 14% thumbs down, Very Positive on Steam, counted by Steam on 2026-11-05.

Sources: OneStar report, Counter-Strike 2

Read the OneStar report

How to read it

Three questions, in order

How far above the median was it? A real wave is several times the usual volume, not a loud day. The ratio on the card is that number.
What did the reviews name? An account, a credit or a price in another region is about something outside the game. Crashes, a nerf or a missing mode are about the build. A OneStar report answers this for the reviews it reads in the window, with the reviews behind each share.
Did the thumbs down come back down? A bomb ends with its cause. A problem ends with the patch. The next week or month on Steam's history tells you which happened.

The method and the other six cases are on How to tell a review bomb from a real problem. For a patch instead of a wave, see What a patch did to your reviews.

Cite this page: link https://onestar.sh/guides/review-bombs/counter-strike-2 and name OneStar and the date you read it. The counts are Steam's own review totals per week or month. Shares in OneStar reports are of all judged reviewers unless the report says otherwise.

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FAQ

Questions, answered plainly

The OneStar report on Counter-Strike 2 reads the reviews behind these counts. Run the same read on any game with the Steam review analyzer.

Is Counter-Strike 2 being review bombed?

Not in the sense of a wave. Its thumbs down are steady and name cheaters, matchmaking and hit registration week after week. The history on this page shows no week far above the median, which is what a sustained problem looks like.

How does OneStar count cheating complaints?

Jev reads each review and answers whether it names a complaint and which category it falls in; code counts the shares. Reviews below the confidence cutoff go to an unsure bucket that stays visible. The report links every number to the reviews behind it.

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