Call of Duty®: Vanguard
Skip · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 16, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Length
- 6.2h 27.3h to 100%
- Value
- $9.68/hr
- Reviews
- 67% of 4,419 positive
Recent reviews trending down: 59% over the last 30 days against 67% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
About the game
Call of Duty®: Vanguard includes a deeply engaging single player Campaign, a massive Multiplayer offering featuring over 20 maps including 16 built for core Multiplayer and an exciting new Zombies experience developed by Treyarch.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 470, 36 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 31 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War ($59.99, scores 28) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition ($39.99, scores 11).
More about Call of Duty®: Vanguard
Players rate it 67 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 59 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 24 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 173 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 24 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 30 percent of the 542 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
6.2 hours to finish it, 27 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
55% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Call of Duty: Vanguard is one of those Call of Duty games that I really wanted to like more than I actually did. The World War II setting had a lot of potential, and visually the game looks pretty damn good. The campaign has some enjoyable moments, and I liked the idea of following different characters with their own backgrounds and experiences during the war. The gunplay is also solid, and the weapons feel...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I mostly play these for the campaigns, and I don't understand why this game received such a huge backlash for it. The way they structured the story telling via flashbacks wasn't the best route but once you finally piece together who is who and what role they play in the team, it finally clicks. Marketing should stop speaking nonsense on behalf of everyone cause what they said was a disaster. The characters are...
The campaign was fine but way to short Multiplayer is ass. Game is hella unrealistic cod WW2 was better
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Call of Duty®: Vanguard scores 16/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1985820/call-of-duty-vanguardReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.