quCS — a non-commercial CS 1.6 client with a unique, advanced interface
This is a professional, non-commercial CS 1.6 game client created by dedicated fan deviz, based on the NextClient, in close collaboration with the Next21 Team. Deviz also develops the free international monitoring service varq.net, integration with this service has made the client highly functional and advanced.
No one here will force you to play on paid "boost" servers. No one here distributes unlicensed games for profit. quCS is a purely creative engineering project built upon the open-source NextClient community. Thousands of servers in the browser, maximum data, and detailed statistics on servers and players — that is what makes this client unique and ultimate.
Download the non-commercial quCS game client for Windows 10/11. You will then be offered a choice of language and links to download the client.
All rights to CS 1.6 belong to Valve (in case you had forgotten). Please purchase the official version of CS 1.6 on Steam, even if you intend to play using unofficial clients. The site's developers respect copyright and do not encourage playing pirated versions of the game.
Game client for your server community
HOW IT WORKS
The game's standard server browser is long outdated. It is an obsolete interface featuring a primitive, uninformative table. A second major drawback is that the list typically contains very few servers—only a small fraction of the total number of CS 1.6 servers worldwide.
Deviz and the Next21 Team came up with a brilliant solution: they embedded a server-monitoring browser directly into the game's startup screen. Yes, this is the very same browser that displays the "MOTD" window when you join a server. All those years, the browser had been doing the mundane, behind-the-scenes grunt work, waiting for the moment it could finally display a useful, user-friendly interface.
All varq.net monitoring features are now available directly within the game: interactive server search and statistics, player search and history, and much more. quCS is a contributor project; if you wish, you can integrate your own web service into the open-source NextClient on the game's start screen (please contact the Next21 Team regarding this).
Unique & ultimate
Now you can finally move on to viewing the cheerful colored blocks with icons and promising texts:
New advanced interface
3400+ online servers in search
Detailed servers information
Players history for the last days
Your logo on the start screen
Flexible server search by mods/options
Interactive server list (as on the website)
Charts of who played and on what maps
Web-interface language: English Select
Contacts and info from server admins
Image galleries and server blogs
Find player by nickname and connect to him
Find a server with paid/free VIP
Add server to monitoring from the game
Automatic game updates
Favorites are stored in your cloud account
Monitor servers from your phone
The game is developed by enthusiasts and fans
For those who like information presented in the spirit of a laundry detergent commercial:
| Commercial game client | quCS (NextClient + varq.net) |
|---|---|
| Limited server search (100–300 promoted servers); the player is forced to play only on promoted servers. | Global search across the free varq.net master server (3400+ servers), interactive search, and statistics. |
| Advertising servers in the gamemenu/favorites | No advertising in the gamemenu or favorites |
| The game client is distributed and managed by the boosting service owner for commercial purposes | The game client is designed for the convenience of players and gaming communities, with no intention of profiting from the players |
| It is impossible to change the master-server, and ad servers cannot be removed. | Ability to customize the start screen for any gaming community |
| New servers will appear in search results only if their administrators have money for advertising | Organic server refresh cycle, multiple sources for new servers, including the Steam API |
Server widget
You can embed a widget of one or several servers in the left area of the game's start screen. This may be of interest to both server administrators and ordinary players: the widget will display current information on the server, and also display a graph of server activity: what maps were there and who played in the last hours.
Your logo
You can set your own image on the game's start screen. We made a demo so you can see how it works. To upload your own image, install the game.