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CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect cover art

CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect

Asobo Studio · Funbox Media Ltd · 2014-03-13

Steam

Action

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 22, 2005 (Xbox), Apr 01, 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 01, 2005 (PlayStation 2)

CT Special Forces: Fire For Effect will feature unique missions in the fight against worldwide terrorist networks. The game also benefits from a cutting-edge engine as well as a specific physics system. For the first time in this genre, physics will have a major impact on how you play the game.

CT Special Forces: Fire for Effect is an Action game released in 2014 for $0.74, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 274 reviews).

0
playing now
56%
positive of 277 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.74
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Counter Terrorist Special Forces: Fire for Effect, known in North America as Special Forces: Nemesis Strike, is a 2005 third-person shooter video game by Asobo Studio for Microsoft Windows and Xbox. Players play as a counter-terrorism agency. The main objective is to dismantle the Nemesis network and get back stolen technology. It is the fourth and final game in the CT Special Forces series.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 80% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.9k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 277 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.22 at GamersGate (2019-12-19) · bundled 13×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 19 of 43 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320152026Week of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
20Mar 2014Apr 2023Mar 2014 — avg 1 · peak 7May 2014 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2014 — avg 0 · peak 5Sep 2014 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2014 — avg 0 · peak 6Jan 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2015 — avg 0 · peak 4May 2015 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2015 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2015 — avg 2 · peak 18Jan 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4May 2016 — avg 0 · peak 5Jul 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Sep 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2018 — avg 1 · peak 3May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 65Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Sep 2020 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2020 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2022 — avg 1 · peak 2Apr 2023 — avg 1 · peak 2

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Apr 2023

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$11.31$0.222015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $0.992015-08-17 — best price $0.992015-12-10 — best price $9.992016-05-16 — best price $9.992016-09-06 — best price $9.992016-12-12 — best price $9.992017-04-17 — best price $0.992017-10-16 — best price $9.992018-01-09 — best price $9.992018-08-20 — best price $2.992019-03-18 — best price $2.992019-11-25 — best price $2.992020-03-10 — best price $2.992020-08-10 — best price $2.992020-11-25 — best price $0.592021-02-13 — best price $0.672021-06-24 — best price $0.592021-10-19 — best price $0.672022-01-12 — best price $0.622022-05-10 — best price $2.992022-08-16 — best price $0.552022-12-19 — best price $2.992023-03-27 — best price $0.742023-08-01 — best price $0.552023-11-21 — best price $0.742023-12-21 — best price $0.562024-01-22 — best price $2.992024-05-27 — best price $2.992024-08-29 — best price $2.992024-12-04 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $0.742025-06-26 — best price $0.742025-10-01 — best price $0.752025-12-19 — best price $0.562026-04-05 — best price $0.742026-07-21 — best price $2.992026-08-24 — best price $0.74
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3682026-06-01 — 8 pageviews2026-06-05 — 12 pageviews2026-06-09 — 12 pageviews2026-06-13 — 14 pageviews2026-06-17 — 22 pageviews2026-06-21 — 32 pageviews2026-06-25 — 10 pageviews2026-06-29 — 15 pageviews2026-07-03 — 15 pageviews2026-07-07 — 16 pageviews2026-07-11 — 14 pageviews2026-07-15 — 16 pageviews2026-07-19 — 11 pageviews2026-07-23 — 17 pageviews2026-07-27 — 9 pageviews2026-07-31 — 14 pageviews2026-08-04 — 12 pageviews2026-08-08 — 19 pageviews2026-08-12 — 22 pageviews2026-08-16 — 13 pageviews2026-08-20 — 24 pageviews2026-08-24 — 8 pageviews2026-08-28 — 29 pageviews2026-09-01 — 32 pageviews2026-09-05 — 21 pageviews2026-09-09 — 18 pageviews2026-09-13 — 24 pageviews2026-09-17 — 36 pageviews2026-09-21 — 19 pageviews2026-09-25 — 22 pageviews2026-09-29 — 15 pageviews2026-10-03 — 11 pageviews2026-10-07 — 8 pageviews2026-10-11 — 17 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Player tags

ActionShooterThird-Person Shooter

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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