Call of Duty®: Ghosts
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $6.67/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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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...
What drives the score
How to read this
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
It has never been cheaper than $15.99. That was September 2026. 9 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. 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 11 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 50 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) ($39.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Ghosts ($39.99, scores 14).
68 from critics against 84 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 408 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The main story runs 6 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 2.2 times as long.
The drop-off
21% start to 1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
32 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Call of Duty®: Ghosts scores 39/100 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/209170/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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