Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.63/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 49,522
- Critics
- 74 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 19% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $33.52 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.1h
- To 100%
- 30.7h 4.3x the story
- Achievements
- 35
Price and sales
- Sales
- 89 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $13.19 June 2026
- Sale every
- 47d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 111 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 72% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
53% start to 2% 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
89 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 7 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 19 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II ($39.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Black Ops ($39.99, scores 51).
More about Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
Critics scored it 74. Players sit 12 points higher at 86 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 33 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 305 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 6,452 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
7.1 hours to finish it, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.3 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'm not recommending this game due to its quality but I am simply not recommending it to others based off of the fact that the nimrods over at Activision refuse to update the security of the game, since about a month ago as of the making of this review post I had to resecure my steam account due to some loser managing to gain access to my private account info via this game, simply play the version of this game on...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Dump File Error makes the campaign unplayable at times. Zombies and MP are full of hackers too.
*it's 2012-13* *turning on my 360 to play BO2* *load up gun game* *play knife only to demote the enemy* *child's freaking out because i knifed them 20x in a single match* *gets back to the lobby screen* *guy entered and started screaming slurs onto everyone* Good old times
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II propels players into a near future Cold War
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 3870 512 MB, 16 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Call of Duty®: Black Ops II 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/202970/call-of-duty-black-ops-iiReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.