CS:Legacy, a Counter-Strike 1.6 Remake is in the works

CS:Legacy is “coming to Steam in 2025” but will Valve allow it?

Midnight Madness has officially revealed CS:Legacy, a standalone remake of Counter-Strike 1.6. This new game is due to be released on Steam in 2025, arriving as an Early Access release. The game aims to bring “Classic Counter-Strike” back to life.

The game claims to be “built from the ground up” with “100% custom game code and game assets.” Midnight Madness is using Valve’s 2013 Source Engine SDK (with major rewrites) to build its game. Visually, the game looks fantastic, and the team aims to deliver Counter-Strike 1.6’s gameplay with “major technical improvements.”

CS:Legacy is a fully standalone remake of Counter-Strike 1.6, built from the ground up with 100% custom game code and game assets. After the exciting Global Offensive transition to CS2, we wanted to bring Classic Counter-Strike back to life more than ever to keep the Classic CS Legacy alive. Not as a mod, but as a full game. The game is built on Valve’s official 2013 Source Engine SDK codebase, with our own major rewrites to the renderer, shaders and various systems.

– CS:Legacy

Gamers can support CS:Legacy on Patreon

At the end of their trailer, the CS:Legacy team asked for support on Patreon. The group has six support tiers, which range from £6.50 per month to £1165 per month. Support on Patreon can give gamers access to the game’s developers, give gamers access to the game’s closed beta, and grant other perks.

If gamers want to support this project on Patreon, they should do so with the awareness that this project may go nowhere. The game has no specific ETA, and it remains unclear if Valve will act in support of this project or actively fight against it. If you want to keep up with the mod’s development, the team has a Discord channel.

Will Valve allow this?

Counter-Strike 2 is the most popular game on the Steam platform, and while there is demand for a “legacy” version of the game, it remains to be seen if Valve will allow such an option to exist. While Valve has supported fan projects in the past, such as Black Mesa, it remains to be seen if Valve will support or fight against the release of CS:Legacy. Note that the game currently lacks a Steam page.

You can join the discussion on CS:Legacy on the OC3D Forums.