While Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO) has been free-to-play for some time now, that doesn’t mean there aren’t some juicy options if you do want to put your hand in your pocket. A common way to try and pick up some of the more desirable items in the game is by purchasing Case Keys. These are cash-only items you can get directly from Steam to open a Case, gacha style. So, with real money at stake, you’ll want to know the best CSGO cases to open to give yourself the best chance of atop weapon skin.
Top cases to open in CSGO with case keys
Of course, the true answer here is in the eye of the individual.There is no universally agreed best case to open. Some players purely want the best potential return on their investment, looking for an item to sell for profit so they can get more keys. While others will be looking for a specific type of item, making cases containing more of them (by percentage odds) favorite. Just remember that pulling a knife is super rare, no matter the case.
Here, I’ve put together a list containing both options,taking both value for money and the quality of potential item rewards into consideration. All the cases on the list are worth considering. There are more than 30 cases in the game right now, so I consider all of these to be in the top half of those available.
Before starting on the list, I think it is worth pointing out that keys havea set cost of $2.49 if bought as you open any case. Don’t buy them from the Steam Marketplace as they always cost more than this, whilethird-party sites claiming to be selling keys should not be trusted. Only keys already within the Steam environment can be used now.
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14. Winter Offensive Weapon Case
This case is becoming rarer, making it far less value for money for what’s on offer inside, butif you’re looking for a white weapons skin, it was more than its fair share.
13. Huntsman Weapon Case
There’s a lot of nostalgia around the Hunsman Weapon Case, whicharrived back in 2014 and is full of community-designed skins. You’ll still see a lot of these skins being sported in-game by veterans and new players alike.
12. Gamma Case
Knife drops are super low in any case, but if you’re going to get one, this isone of the best cases to land a knife skin from in terms of cash value. Beyond that, it has a lot of fun gun skins that are colorful but not too much to write home about.
11. CS20 Case
Introduced to celebrate 20 years of Counterstrike back in 2019, there are a lot of these still around, which has kept the price down.Nostalgia fans will want to pull the Classic Knife(the skin from early CS games), but some of the unique weapon skins here are also popular and reasonably valuable.
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10. Danger Zone Case
It’s hard to know where to rank the Danger Zone case, as it hassome great skins but a ridiculous number (69, including the 52 knives) to randomly draw from. It just makes the top 10 because while it has a lot of options, enough is good that it’s still worth taking a punt on.
9. Prisma 2 Case
While not quite on par with the Prisma Case (spoiler later, see below) this follow-up to that colorful classic stillhas its fair share of daft but desirable eye-bashing skinsthat should help you stand out from the crowd.
8. Clutch Case
It may now be more than five years since the Welcome to the Clutch update, but the Clutch Case hasa lot of skins that are now considered classics, and many players are still after them. It also has a strong selection of gloves rather than knives.
7. Prisma Case
For pure value in terms of thelikelihood of finding something cool, the Prisma Case is a perennial favorite. It’s common enough to still be cheap but has a lot of popular brightly colored skins that should prove tradeable if you don’t hit on something you want.
6. Dreams & Nightmares Case
As the case name suggests, the Dreams and Nightmares Case is home to a slightly derangedmix of super colorful and super scary skins. This makes it a fun case to choose from, while italso includes some stone-cold (and very popular) classics.
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5. Weapon Case 2
Unfortunately, Weapon Case 2 is nowone of the more expensive you’ll seedue to its rarity. However, it has the advantage of being home tosome of the game’s most desirable knife skinsas well as some classic guns.
4. Glove Case
The beauty of the Glove Case is that it has24 unique Glove skins on offer, alongside some great classic skins(17 in total) that will likely be tradeable if you don’t get some of the gloves you’re searching for.
3. Operation Wildfire
This is another rather expensive case nowadays, but once you’ve seen someone sporting theKumicho Dragon Desert Eagle skin, it’s hard not to take a risk on this bad boy. Go ahead and treat yourself.
2. Recoil Case
While thechance of pulling the AWP Chromatic Aberrationis probably worth the entrance fee alone, you also have the Marble Fade Specialist and Field Agent gloves on the list of rare gloves.
1. Operation Broken Fang Case
A total of 18 weapon skins were included in this case that dropped as part of the Operation Broken Fang update. There area lot of desirable skins in the case, making it more likely than usual that you’lleither get something you want or something tradeable. Plus, it is another case with a good glove (instead of a knife) selection.
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