Call of Duty®: Ghosts
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $6.67/hr
- Reviews
- 65% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 96% over the last 30 days against 65% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: : NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 / ATI Radeon HD 5870 or better. Windows only.
Outnumbered and outgunned, but not outmatched.Call of Duty®: Ghosts is an extraordinary step forward for one of the largest entertainment franchises of all-time. This new chapter in the Call of Duty® franchise features a new dynamic where players are on the side of a crippled nation fighting not for freedom, or liberty, but simply to...
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. It has been discounted 45 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 66 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. 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 8 weeks.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty®: Ghosts ($39.99, scores 39) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition ($39.99, scores 10).
Players rate it 65 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 96 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 119 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 2,846 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 2.2 times as long.
The drop-off
81% start to 3% 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
Players
106 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
Best CoD campaign out there compared to every other game, very underrated, I yearn for a Ghosts 2. Don't listen to anybody who says the campaign is bad. Multiplayer is not the best, doe.
I remember back in my younger years when I first saw one of the trailers where a building is collapsing and falling down from a cliff, and saw Riley, the German Shepard; that was very exciting, however, I never played it for some reason. Some say this is the worst CoD game ever made... Well, I think they are incorrect; it is a decent game in the franchise. It was a pioneer in several ways, built some systems which...
An outrageously underrated game that ended on a massive cliffhanger, a surreal multiplayer experience with interactable maps from buttons opening doors to a map being on a falling skyscraper which can change, extinction was also a great game mode introduced to the franchise in place of zombies that I wish returned
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®: Ghosts scores 14/100 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/209160/call-of-duty-ghostsThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 23.
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