Call of Duty®: Black Ops
Fair · Shooter · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it. Price from Oct 21.
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.63/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 4,588
- Critics
- 81 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 39% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.90 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.1h
- To 100%
- 18.3h 2.6x the story
- Achievements
- 3
Price and sales
- Sales
- 11 on record
- Typical cut
- 51% off
- Steam low
- $19.59 June 2018
- Sale every
- 60d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 135 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $19.59, set in June 2018. Across all 11 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 51 percent, about 9 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 39 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 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
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 10 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 506 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026.
Finishing takes 7.1 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Call of Duty®: Black Ops scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) 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/42710/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 Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.