Conflict: Denied Ops

Conflict: Denied Ops

Skip · Shooter · 2008

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $5.99.

Length
5.9h
Value
$1.02/hr
Reviews
53% of 489 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$1.02/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews53% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 55% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 250 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

About the game

*This is a single player only title*Venezuela is left in a state of civil war after the government was brutally overthrown by a military coup. With factions fighting to reinstate democracy, the U.S. government has offered their assistance, though the new government regime has threatened to deploy nuclear weapons if the U.S.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB DirectX 9.0c card with full Shader 3.0 support, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 87 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® Remastered (2017) ($39.99, scores 4) and BATTALION: Legacy (free, scores 7) both outscore it.

More about Conflict: Denied Ops

Of the 250 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 199 reviews written there were positive, against 53 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

This might be the worst shooter I have ever played. CoD. Level tactics on display but they give you a pointless few commands over your teammate that just get in the way. The enemies are super bullet spongy. The controls SUCK really bad for a shooter. The frame rate drops even on the best modern hardware. The voice acting sucks. Franchise killer for sure. What a painful 80 minutes i had to slog through before giving...
The GrongleNot recommendedafter 1.4hJun 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I thought it wouldn't be that bad, but the reviews were right. I regret buying this garbage. It's not worth a cent.
AymanNot recommendedafter 2.9hJan 2026Read on Steam
For 90¢ I found it a challenging and enjoyable shooter, and I'm picky. Played fine on the Deck although the cut scenes won't always play, missions are just fine. I did have to bind keys to the deck to get it just how I wanted it, took about 15 minutes.
MunkeyThrustRecommendedafter 3.1hNov 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Conflict: Denied Ops scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/8100/conflict-denied-ops
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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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-5
Critics58
Players53
Metacritic critics · 489 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPivotal Games
PublisherSquare Enix
GenreShooter
Released2008
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate