
The game at a glance
About Counter-Strike Nexon
Counter-Strike Nexon is the free-to-play massively multiplayer online FPS that asks the simple question: What’s better than Counter-Strike? Answer: Counter-Strike with new game modes, map creation and lots of zombies! Counter-Strike Nexon: Studio is Nexon’s free-to-play take on the Counter-Strike franchise, adding zombies to several familiar game modes, and making it possible for players to become infected themselves and to strike back at their former colleagues. Braaaaaaains… Using the original Counter-Strike Engine from way back when, CSN:Z features…
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Using the original Counter-Strike Engine from way back when, CSN:Z features over 20 different game modes, spread out across both PvP and PvE. You’ll take on challenging bosses, lead a ragged group of survivors through zombie-infested territory, or defend your home base against wave after wave of the hungry undead. There are even takes on the classic Counter-Strike maps and scenarios, such as Bomb Defusal and Hostage Rescue.
You’ll have at your disposal a vast array of weaponry to deal with the zombies, from 12-gauge shotguns to double-barrel shotguns to combat shotguns to weapons that aren’t shotguns! CSN:Z includes a versatile crafting system with which you can improve your weapons or create entirely new ones – including shotguns! With the Family system, you can share your gear with your friends, especially handy if they’re low on shotguns.
Sometimes, though, the need to feed is too strong, and you’ll be cast in the role of a zombie rather than a human. In these scenarios, you’ll have a number of brain-gnawing skills and attacks at your disposal. Zombies can increase their passive abilities, such as speed or enhanced jumping capabilities, as well as learn special attacks to carve through those squishy humans.
With tons of gameplay modes and over 60 maps to learn and master, Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies offers fast-paced action with multitudes of strategic options that’s sure to please fans of shooters and survival games alike. Just make sure to bring plenty of shotguns.
Story & setting
It all started with the escalating conflict between terrorists who fought against wealth & inequality, and counter-terrorists who were trying to reduce military expenditures. The United States launched the 'Super Soldier Project' in an attempt to create an entity beyond human limits, capable of wiping out the terrorists. Despite his fevered efforts, Dr. Rex, an obsessed researcher who worked day and night on his theories and was also a leading authority on biomechanical engineering, ended up falling short of expectations.
When all seemed lost, an anonymous letter reached Dr. Rex. It included a report of a 'walking corpse' in Europe. The report, complete with location details, left Dr. Rex blinded by possibilities and, with no reason to wait, he immediately dispatched a team of researchers to the town of Heorgen to investigate and obtain specimens for his study.
In the early 20th century, rumors began to circulate around an abandoned warehouse where a secret religious group was set to worship witches and fire. Local leaders took advantage of this rumor to ruthlessly hunt and slaughter the 'heretics' for their own prestige and power.
Seemingly out of resentment for the living, the slaughtered corpses released a foul odor containing an unknown virus which used the bodies of the dead - their hosts - to spread, attacking and multiplying to create other new hosts. This is the reason why the European Union ultimately sealed off the area and kept it under strict control.
Regardless of right and wrong, Dr. Rex's team managed to sneak the virus away in a secret research facility where he continued his work. Unaware of the side effects, he successfully created the 'Rex Virus'.
After experimenting on multiple test subjects, he believed he had finally created Super Soldiers. That is until everyone started noticing a strange behavior related to the subjects.
They would gradually lose their minds and attack the researchers around them, a behavior similar to what would only be described as a... zombie.
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The useful details
Game information
- Developer
- Nexon
- Publisher
- Nexon Europe GmbH
- Game modes
- Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer, Single player
Free-to-play details
FreeToGame coverage: PC. Additional platforms may come from IGDB; availability and pricing can differ.
FreeToGame listed status: Live.
Minimum PC requirements
- OS
- Windows XP
- Processor
- Intel® Celeron 2.13GHz
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Graphics
- Geforce4 TI 4200
- Storage
- 2 GB available space


