Call of Duty®: Ghosts

Call of Duty®: Ghosts

Skip · Shooter · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 14, under the fair line, at $39.99. Price from Oct 21.

Cost per hour▼
$6.67/hr
Reviews▼
66% of 32,224
Critics
68 players 2 lower
Genre rank
Top 80% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Recent reviews trending up: 93% over the last 30 days against 66% all-time.

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
6h
To 100%
13.2h 2.2x the story
Achievements
40

Price and sales

Sales
45 on record
Typical cut
66% off
Steam low
$14.99 November 2014
Sale every
57d last September 2026
Other stores

Players and genre

Online
124 now
Recent reviews
93% 30 days
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
20% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

81% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

November 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. It has been discounted 45 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 8 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 80 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).

More about Call of Duty®: Ghosts

Players rate it 66 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 93 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 336 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 2,861 reviews written there were positive, against 66 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.

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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Recent reviews93% (30 days)
Trending up vs lifetime, a small lift
Holding it back
Cost per hour$6.67/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds15 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

I really don't get why Infinity Ward is so horny for 'get shot look at sky' but it's annoying. Game is good though, as it always was. Ending is bull though. Also quite tired of the 'silent protagonist' that is common for Infinity Ward. For example, Elias speaks throughout the whole game, EXCEPT when you play as him. Then he's suddenly mute. It just takes the immersion out so much, and having your character speak...
grlontheintrntRecommendedafter 5.3hOct 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
English/Anglais One of my favorite CoD hands down! Shame we never had a sequel... we need a CoD Ghosts 2, that cliffhanger at the end has me on edge. Graphics might look old for some people but to me they still stand, to be honest! Might not be for everybody but still look beautifull. Gameplay is old school CoD and honestly i like it more like that than the newer entries, it's simple. Graphics : 7/10 Gameplay : 7/10...
Lt. PhantomRecommendedafter 18h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This CoD is by far my favorite game and it is softly because of nostalgia. In seriousness though, the story and gameplay is what you can expect from any previous CoD that came before this one. The only reason this game isn't talked about as much was because the multiplayer wasn't as good as previous entries and that is the sole reason this game wasn't popular that and maybe it didn't have zombies. Those two things...
TheeEmanRecommendedafter 5.6h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: : NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 / ATI Radeon HD 5870 or better. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Call of Duty®: Ghosts scores 14/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) 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/209160/call-of-duty-ghosts
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Reviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-2
Critics68
Players66
Metacritic critics · 32,224 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperInfinity Ward
PublisherActivision
GenreShooter
Released2014
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements40