Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
Worth it · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99, a BANGER if it drops to $23.97. Price from Oct 21.
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.63/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 13,726
- Critics
- 74 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Watch this gameOne alert at $23.97 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.1h
- To 100%
- 30.7h 4.3x the story
- Achievements
- 5
Price and sales
- Sales
- 10 on record
- Typical cut
- 51% off
- Steam low
- $13.19 July 2026
- Sale every
- 60d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 183 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
52% start to 3% 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
July 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $13.19. Across all 10 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 51 percent, about 9 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. The nearest things to it, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II ($39.99, scores 65) and Call of Duty: World at War ($19.99, scores 65), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Call of Duty®: Black Ops II
74 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
None of the 773 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 120 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 2 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
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
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 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 21. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/202990/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 Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.