Call of Duty: World at War

Call of Duty: World at War

Fair · Shooter · 2008

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 8 sales

Fair at $19.99. A BANGER at $6.14, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jan 2013 (lowest $9.79, Jun 2015).

Cost per hour▼
$2.86/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 53,547
Critics
83 players 9 higher
Genre rank
Top 20% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 69% off ($6.14) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $16.37.
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.14 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
7h
To 100%
25.5h 3.6x the story

Price and sales

Sales
89 on record
Typical cut
25% off
Steam low
$9.79 June 2015
Sale every
47d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $9.79 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
385 now
Recent reviews
89% 30 days
Cheaper than
16% of its genre
Better reviewed
90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 89 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 7 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $6.14, the price it would take to be a BANGER.

Its score puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games closest to it, Call of Duty®: WWII ($59.99, scores 17) and Call of Duty®: Black Ops ($39.99, scores 51) both come in lower.

More about Call of Duty: World at War

The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 24 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 3,280 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

7 hours to finish it, 26 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 51 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.86/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds24 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Despite the game being censored in Germany and the entire Zombie being removed, as a German you still pay Full price regarless of an entire gamemode being removed.
HobbyNot recommendedafter 1.2h32 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Call of Duty is back, redefining war like you've never experienced before. Building on the Call of Duty 4®: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War immerses players into the most gritty and chaotic WWII combat ever experienced.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Call of Duty: World at War scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/10090/call-of-duty-world-at-war
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+9
Critics83
Players92
Metacritic critics · 53,547 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTreyarch
PublisherActivision
GenreShooter
Released2008
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate