Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War
Skip · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $59.99. Fair at $7.29, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2023 (lowest $14.99, Sep 2026).
- Cost per hour▼
- $10.91/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 23,789
- Genre rank
- Top 65% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, DRM
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.29 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.5h
- To 100%
- 18.9h 3.4x the story
- Achievements
- 44
Price and sales
- Sales
- 31 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $14.99 September 2026
- Sale every
- 44d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 346 now
- Recent reviews
- 79% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 52% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
57% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
31 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 7 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty®: Black Ops ($39.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Vanguard ($59.99, scores 16).
More about Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War
20 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 1,814 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
5.5 hours to finish it, 19 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 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
What players say
I don't know why no one else has played this it is literally the best modern call of duty before activision pumped out slop
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Epic BO game ever, right next to BO1. Both endings were good (If you choose to ambush Adler in the Duga ending) and had a lot of epic moments. Satisfying gunplay and sick takedowns, feels like a Far Cry game. 10/10 Campaign is entertaining and fun.
servers are garbage now and the game crashes all the time, why is this full price
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Black Ops Cold War, the direct sequel to Call of Duty®: Black Ops, will drop fans into the depths of the Cold War’s volatile geopolitical battle of the early 1980s.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon HD 7950, 175 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1985810/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-warReviews 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 16, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.