Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare

Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare

Skip · Shooter · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 8 sales

It scores 7, under the fair line, at $59.99.

Cost per hour▼
$8.22/hr
Reviews▼
62% of 30,255
Critics
73 players 11 lower
Genre rank
Top 87% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Monetization

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

Recent reviews trending up: 85% over the last 30 days against 62% all-time.

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
7.3h
To 100%
16.6h 2.3x the story
Finish
2% reach the ending
Achievements
88

Price and sales

Sales
72 on record
Typical cut
67% off
Steam low
$14.99 September 2026
Sale every
45d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $14.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
118 now
Recent reviews
85% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
14% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

58% start to 2% 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

Across all 72 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 67 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 7 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty®: Black Ops III ($59.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Battlefield™ 2042 ($59.99, scores 0).

More about Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare

73 on Metacritic, 62 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 62 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 85 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 25 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 205 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 20 percent of the 3,206 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that. The sticker price is where the spending starts.

7.3 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 51 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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
Engagement2% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Recent reviews85% (30 days)
Trending up vs lifetime, a small lift
Holding it back
Cost per hour$8.22/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
MonetizationCosmetic, Currency, Loot box
Loot boxes / pay-to-win drag the score down
For context
Refunds25 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
In-app purchasesCosmetic, Currency, Loot boxPCGamingWiki

What players say

A forgotten masterpiece that deserved so much more. I came into Infinite Warfare with zero expectations - I didn't even know this game existed until I stumbled upon it during a sale. Now, having completed the campaign, I can confidently say this is one of the best single-player experiences in the entire Call of Duty franchise. The Story: The narrative is straightforward, yes, but it's told with genuine heart. It's a...
PrettyBoyRecommendedafter 14h22 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is one of the best cod games ever released. Starting from the campaign, it was a cinematic masterpiece, all of the characters had a personality and the emotion felt real. Must admit the story was a bit strange at times but everything just mentioned counteracted that. YOU NEED TO PLAY THIS YOU WILL CRY! The multiplayer is not the greatest but its not as bad as the community makes it out to be. After all half of...
GambitRecommendedafter 17hOct 2026Read on Steam
Played through the entirety of the main campaign on the Steam Machine using also the new Steam Controller and it worked flawlessly with all high settings and consistent 60fps performance I'm probably in the minority when it comes to these games , I only play the campaigns and I don't touch multiplayer ( I suck at shooters ) and for this one I found it meh at best. I thought some of the weapons and ships were cool...
EllieNot recommendedafter 8.7h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Infinite Warfare delivers three unique game modes: Campaign, Multiplayer, and Zombies.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB, 70 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare scores 7/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/292730/call-of-duty-infinite-warfare
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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 Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-11
Critics73
Players62
Metacritic critics · 30,255 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperInfinity Ward
PublisherActivision
GenreShooter
Released2016
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements88