Most demo viewers replay the round.This one rebuilds it.

CSReview never touches the running game. It doesn’t inject anything, hook it, or read its memory, and it doesn’t change a game file. Steam’s own Game Recording does the recording and CSReview reads what Valve already wrote to your disk. Matchmaking demos come from Valve’s own demo servers, and Faceit demos come down through your own logged-in Faceit session. It won’t even open a Steam session while you’re in a game, because that would kick you out of your own match. The only thing it puts in your CS2 folder is a Game State Integration config, which is Valve’s documented way of letting an app be told the score. Everything else is worked out from the demo file, after the match is over.

Eight matches on the 2D board with everything turned on, and they come from two separate pots. Connect Steam or Faceit when you install and CSReview lists the games you already played, and you can import five of them straight away. On top of that you get three conversions to spend on whatever you like, and spending one never touches the other five. Map control, line of sight and fog of war all work on all eight. Everything else is free with no limit at all, so that is automatic POV capture after every match, the full review player, moments, notes, focus areas, the library, clips and every integration.

No. Connect Steam or Faceit and CSReview shows you the matches you already played, then downloads and builds the 2D replay for five of them. You can be watching your own games on the board in the first ten minutes rather than after the next session. Those five are free and they don’t come out of your three conversions.

Nothing you already built goes away. Every match you spent one on keeps its 2D replay for good, and re-opening one costs nothing. New matches keep arriving with your POV cut and marked up, they just don’t get a board until you go Pro, which removes the limit and builds one for every match on its own in the background. They don’t expire, and a conversion that had nothing to convert doesn’t spend one.

No. Windows 10 and 11 only, and there is no Mac or Linux build. It’s a direct download rather than a Steam or Microsoft Store app, and it updates itself after that.

Install it once and it runs quietly in the tray. After every match your POV gets cut out automatically and the demo comes down in the background, so the review is already waiting when you want it, with your footage on one side and a 2D replay of the whole server on the other, both on the same playhead. You just open it and watch.

Other viewers play the demo back. CSReview rebuilds the round. Smoke takes the shape it actually took instead of a circle with a timer on it, walls and boxes and height block vision the way they blocked it in game, and map control will tell you who is holding any piece of ground and why. It also runs right next to your own footage on one playhead, so you can flip between what you saw and what was really happening without losing your place.

Which team holds which ground as the round plays out. Solid colour means a body standing on it or a gun trained down it, and hatching means ground a side got to first and is still watching every way into. Hover any of it and the app tells you who is holding it and why, and you can flip the whole board to Overview, CT Intel or T Intel to see the round the way either team could actually have known it.

Map control, line of sight and fog of war run on eight maps, so Ancient, Anubis, Cache, Dust II, Inferno, Mirage, Nuke and Overpass. The 2D replay itself works on ten, those eight plus Train and Vertigo, and on those two the app greys the buttons out and tells you why rather than pretending.

Both, and they get picked up on their own. Setup walks you through connecting Steam, Faceit and Leetify once, and after that you never think about it again. You can also drop in any .dem file or a zip of them, so scrims, a teammate’s game and pro demos all work too.

No. CSReview is built on Steam Game Recording, so Valve does the recording and CSReview just reads what it wrote, and it never touches your game. If the app was closed when a match ended, it rebuilds that match from Steam’s own recordings on the next launch, before Steam deletes them. The one thing you turn on is “Save background recordings” in Steam’s own Game Recording settings, once. The app checks for it on first run and puts a button in front of you that opens the right page.

It catches up. On the next launch it goes through Steam’s own recordings, finds the matches with no video, and rebuilds them from whatever survived, before Steam’s cleanup gets there.

When a reconnect splits your match into two recordings, it works out that the second one continues the first, joins them without re-encoding, and re-times the events in the back half.

Yes, with no account. Automatic POV capture, the full review player, moments, notes, focus areas, the library, clips and every integration are free with no limit. On top of that every install gets eight 2D replays, five imported from matches you already played and three you pick yourself, with map control, line of sight and fog of war working on all of them. CSReview Pro ($3.99/month, $29/year, or $69 once) drops the limit and builds a board for every match on its own.

Leetify tells you what is going wrong across your matches. CSReview shows you the round where it happened, in your own footage, with the map on screen next to it. They work together rather than competing, and Leetify’s round ratings and stats are built right into the CSReview timeline.

No. It stops completely while you are in a game, and the rest of the time the heavy work happens in the background without taking the machine off you.

Set a storage cap and old videos clean themselves up, with the ones you protect left alone. On Pro you can also convert any match to 2D only, which drops the video and keeps the match audio, your notes, the markers and the full 2D replay. A 4.5 GB match comes out around 35 MB and is still completely reviewable.

No. Your Faceit matches sync on their own and the demos come down without a browser window ever appearing on your screen. It waits out the post-match processing countdown and picks the demo up when it’s ready.

Round ratings land on your timeline, and each match keeps its own permanent snapshot of the stats next to the video, so it still makes sense months later. Your focus areas track against the matching Leetify stat too. Faceit demos upload back to Leetify on their own as well, through an endpoint Leetify published for exactly this. Connecting it during setup is the smoothest path, and it takes about ten seconds.

Nothing. A crash, a quit or a power cut doesn’t lose it, and the upload is still queued up waiting on the next launch. Your notes go along as timestamped chapters.