Call of Duty®: Black Ops III
Fair · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $59.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 9h
- Value
- $6.67/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI Radeon HD 6970 @ 1GB, 100 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III Zombies Chronicles Edition includes the full base game plus the Zombies Chronicles content expansion.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in February 2021. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 39 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 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 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty: World at War ($19.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Black Ops ($39.99, scores 51).
73 from critics against 85 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 30 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 6,013 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (currency, cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 9 hours. Doing everything runs 84, 9.3 times as long.
It came out 11 years ago and 5.4K were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
37% start to 26% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
5,414 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
I wanna do a real review of this game but its not worth doing because like all the classic CoDs this game still has the RCE exploits and it should be patched out or taken down from the Steam Store.
Possibly the worst Campaign, can't pick up guns, convoluted "deep" storyline, stupid mecha and future technology (They had a very fun view of the future of warfare, very MANGA inspired) One of the drop-off Milestone markers of the entire franchise. I want to say the multiplayer is fun, but I never could hang with it even back when it was fresh. I hate the movement, I hate the washed out look of the game, the...
This review is all about Call of Duty Black Ops 3 Zombies. I've had this game for about 5 years now, and I still have a blast playing Black Ops 3 Zombies. The best part is the workshop maps and how the community keeps the game alive, even though it's over 11 years old. My favorite workshop map is called "Dead of High." People are still making new maps, and it's awesome that YouTubers like the Vanoss Crew still play...
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®: Black Ops III scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/311210/call-of-duty-black-ops-iiiThe 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 Sep 9, price as of Sep 23.
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