Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®
Skip · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $59.99.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $9.68/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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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.
Experience a visceral Campaign or assemble your team in the ultimate online playground with multiple Special Ops challenges and a mix of Multiplayer maps and modes.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. 31 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre. On the same math Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) ($19.99, scores 81) and Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) ($19.99, scores 90) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data puts 41 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 4,508 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (boost, cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
6.2 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
3 years after release it still had 847 people in it at once.
The drop-off
46% start to 41% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
847 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The campaign is the only reason why I got this game and I was glad to play it. The campaign itself was phenomenal and it offered different gameplay we haven't experienced yet throughout all the campaigns in the call of duty series. The story was also interesting and enjoyed more than I realized along with the gameplay and the missions were a lot of fun. Nothing else to say about it, it was just a good story with...
First playthrough review time. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is one of the better reboots in the series. It brings back the style of the older games but also adds better visuals and a more realistic approach. The game has detailed environments and good overall presentation, which makes the campaign stand out. The missions also have different types of situations, which helps keep the campaign from feeling repetitive...
their buisness pratices make me want to kill myself, they removed the ability to que for certain gamemodes to make you play those game modes in the most recent cod, Like you cannot que for hardcore free for all. I hope whoever was involved with making this desicion lives a very long painful painful painful painful painful life.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2000950/call-of-duty-modern-warfareThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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