Call of Duty®: Ghosts

Call of Duty®: Ghosts

Skip · Shooter · 2014

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 39, under the fair line, at $39.99. Price from Oct 21.

Cost per hour▼
$6.67/hr
Reviews▼
84% of 2,162
Critics
68 players 16 higher
Genre rank
Top 53% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

It needs 88% off ($4.65) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.65 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
6h
To 100%
13.2h 2.2x the story
Finish
1% reach the ending
Achievements
51

Price and sales

Sales
9 on record
Typical cut
67% off
Steam low
$15.99 September 2026
Sale every
76d last September 2026
Other stores

Players and genre

Online
70 now
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
65% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

21% start to 1% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $15.99. That was September 2026. 9 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 11 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare® (2007) ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Ghosts ($39.99, scores 14).

More about Call of Duty®: Ghosts

68 from critics against 84 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 407 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026.

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
Engagement1% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
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
Refunds0 of 407 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

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

BANG Score badge
Call of Duty®: Ghosts scores 39/100 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/209170/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+16
Critics68
Players84
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 2,162 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperInfinity Ward
PublisherActivision
GenreShooter
Released2014
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements51