You Can Now Play Counter Strike 1.6 on Your Android Device

BY Rajesh Pandey

Published 19 Apr 2016

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We all have spent numerous hours in our childhood playing Counter Strike 1.6 with our friends. Now, to kill whatever remaining productivity present inside you, the game has been ported to Android devices. Yes, you read that right: you can now play the original Counter Strike 1.6 game right on your Android device.

The game will work on all recent and fairly powerful Android devices without any issues. The steps to get the game up and running are also pretty simple, though you do already need to have CS 1.6 installed on your PC since you’ll need to copy over the game’s data files to your Android device.

The steps to install the game as mentioned by Reddit user a1baomarov can be found below:

1) Install the APK. Install APK with omp postfix if you have multi-core device and noomp if you have single-core device or have problems with omp version.

2) Install the latest Xash3D Android from https://github.com/SDLash3D/xash3d-android-project/releases/latest.

3) Copy cstrike and valve folders from your Steam CS1.6 installation to xash folder on SDCard.

4) Run CS16Client!

Just to clarify, this is not a half-assed port. The game works just as it would on a PC. This means that you can even play multiplayer games provided you are able to find a server to connect to. The game features customisable touch controls, but you can always use a USB OTG connector to plug in game controllers or a keyboard and mouse and play the game using that.

So what are you waiting for?

[Via Reddit]