Global Offensive Mobile is a trending mobile game for Android devices, that is an unofficial clone of the popular competitive first-person shooter CS:GO. It was spotted on the Google Play Store a few months back after which it became quite popular within the CS:GO community, due to its stark similarity with the Valve shooter. Global Offensive Mobile is currently only available in Thailand and its full version is yet to be released for the public, following a ‘Closed Beta Test’ that came to an end on 18 Feb 2021. Global Offensive Mobile has been developed and published by ‘Cheese WT’ which seems to be a Thailand based gaming studio.
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Global Offensive Mobile is a clone of the popular Valve developed competitive shooter CS:GO. The mobile game which is currently only available for Android devices in Thailand, has taken a bit more than just inspiration from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, staying true to the proverb “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”.
However, there is nothing sincere about this mobile version of CS:GO as it has no official links or affiliations to Valve. This setback seems to be of no problem to Global Offensive Mobile, which is a ditto copy of the popular online shooter, copying everything from its weapons, gameplay, maps, to even the skins and recreating them as it is for the mobile title.
The mobile game which looks pretty stunning has been made on the Unity Engine, while being quite demanding when it comes to storage space, which is around 1.2 GB following an 82 MB download via the Google Play Store.
Well, as stated above the answer is a crystal clear no, at least for the moment. Valve has not officially commented on the matter or as a matter of fact, they have not even showed the slightest interest in expanding CS:GO to the mobile platform.
It is a long shot that CS:GO will be officially coming to mobile devices anytime soon, considering that the Counter-Strike community has been requesting an upgrade to the ‘Source 2 Engine’ for years now, but Valve has straight up ignored it so far.
From the official images of the game available on Global Offensive Mobile’s Google Play Store page or the many walkthrough videos present on the internet, it is evident that the shooter mobile title is an identical copy of CS:GO for the mobile gaming audience.
The game which is popularly referred to as ‘CS:GO Mobile’ due to the huge number of similarities that it shares with the PC title, has not only copied maps and weapons, it has in fact mimicked CS:GO’s gameplay and cosmetics also, which certainly crosses a line.
Here are some of the similarities that Global Offensive Mobile and CS:GO share between them,
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After going through the above section, it might come off as a bit of a surprise that despite Global Offensive Mobile being so heavily influenced by CS:GO how can the 2 titles have any difference. Well, while there might not be a lot of critical differences to highlight, the two games do have a few differences worth mentioning.
Global Offensive Mobile had ran a ‘Closed Beta Test’ for a few months before it came to an end on 18 Feb 2021. Since then the game servers were closed down and further downloading of the game through legal methods came to a stop.
There has been no news about Global Offensive Mobile’s release date ever since and everyone is kind off stuck in a limbo at the moment concerning the game’s return. There is no announcement being made by the developers, while the community is constantly asking about when they would be able to play the game once again.
Though there is currently no news about when Global Offensive Mobile will be making a comeback, the CS:GO mobile game clone has made some serious impact in the SEA region. While only being limited to Thailand, a lot of players from other countries like Brazil and Turkey also used to enjoy playing the game, though at an absurd ping.
The userbase from the 2 regions was significant enough to warrant them an independent chat lobby in the game’s official Discord Server. With serious speculations being made about the game expanding to the 2 regions following Global Offensive Mobile’s full release.
Though the game received a great response from the mobile gaming community, the CS:GO player base was quite skeptical of this unofficial clone that had blatantly copied one of the most popular online shooters in the world. While most of them were of the opinion that Global Offensive Mobile would be certainly facing a heavy lawsuit from Valve, a few others had some controversial theories of their own. But for any of this to happen, the mobile game has to release properly, something that is a mystery for everyone!