What Is CS Demo Manager and What Can You Do With It?
CS Demo Manager is a companion application for managing Counter-Strike demo files — the .dem replays recorded by CS:GO and CS2. It gives you a single place to organize those files and then do something useful with them: pull out statistics, locate grenade lineups, build heatmaps, track VAC bans, generate videos, download recent demos, search for specific plays, and export the underlying data. It's aimed at players and teams who want to review their own matches or analyze others' without manually scrubbing through raw demo files.
What it is
A desktop app that sits alongside Counter-Strike and works on the .dem files the game produces. Instead of treating each demo as an opaque file, it indexes and processes them so you can query and visualize what happened inside.
The project publishes its own documentation, download page, changelog, and blog, so version history and setup instructions come from the source rather than third parties.
Core things you can do
Extract statistics from demos
Parse a demo into match statistics rather than watching it back in real time. This is the baseline feature the rest of the tooling builds on.
Find grenade lineups
A grenade finder is designed to quickly surface smokes, flashbangs, and similar utility usage — useful when you want to copy a lineup or check how a round was set up.
Generate and export heatmaps
Produce heatmaps from demo data and export them, which is handy for showing positioning tendencies across many rounds or matches.
Track VAC bans
A VAC tracker lets you follow ban status, relevant if you're checking accounts you've played against.
Extra features
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Video generation | Generate videos from demos |
| Demo download | Download your last Valve or third-party demos |
| Search | Find specific plays such as 5K rounds or ninja defuses |
| Export | Send data to XLSX/JSON files, or query the database directly with SQL |
The search and export features are what turn a pile of demos into something you can filter and report on — for example, isolating every ninja defuse across a season, or exporting round data to a spreadsheet for a coach.
How to get started
- Go to the project's site and open the Download page to get the application.
- Check the Docs for setup and usage details.
- Point it at your demo files (or use the demo download feature to fetch recent ones).
- Pick a task — stats, grenades, heatmaps, or search — and work from there.
The Changelog and Blog are worth checking when something behaves unexpectedly, since behavior changes between versions.
Who it's for
- Players reviewing their own matches and utility usage.
- Teams and coaches exporting round data and building heatmaps for prep.
- Analysts who want SQL access to demo data instead of manual review.
- Anyone who needs to find a specific play (a 5K, a ninja defuse) across many demos.
If you only ever watch demos inside the game client and never need stats, exports, or search, this adds little. If you regularly handle more than a handful of .dem files and want to query them, it's built for exactly that.