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Rich Stanton

Counter-Strike 2 just remade my favourite game from the ground-up for free and let me keep my fancy AK-47, so of course it's the true GOTY

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A lineup of counter-terrorist operatives in Counter-Strike 2.

If you were asked to name the most-successful game on Steam at the start of 2023, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's 30 million monthly players would have made that a good pick. Now we're at the end of the year and, if you want to play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, you can only do so through obscure means. It's not just gone. It's been replaced.

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In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2023, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We'll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month.

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