Call of Duty®: Black Ops
Fair · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$19.9950% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.63/hr
- ReviewsS
- 91% of 43,454
- Critics
- 81 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 38% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $19.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.1h
- To 100%
- 18.3h 2.6x the story
- Achievements
- 68
Price and sales
- Sales
- 91 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $19.59 June 2015
- Sale every
- 45d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 233 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 87% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
66% start to 1% rarestThis 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
Across all 91 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 7 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 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 Cold War ($59.99, scores 28).
More about Call of Duty®: Black Ops
81 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 29 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 1,916 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.1 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 51 days ago.
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
What players say
One of the best story games I've played everyone needs to play this at least once in their life and this game made me pregnant
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The biggest first-person action series of all time and the follow-up to critically acclaimed Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 2 returns with Call of Duty®: Black Ops.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader 3.0 or better 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT / ATI Radeon X1950Pro or better, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Call of Duty®: Black Ops scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/42700/call-of-duty-black-opsReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.