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Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War

80% positive · 22,884 Steam reviews · released Mar 8, 2023 · by Treyarch, Raven Software, High Moon Studios, Beenox, Activision Shanghai, Sledgehammer Games

SingleplayerFPSMultiplayerActionZombiesCold WarShooterFirst-Person

What it likely sold — estimate, stated as a range on purpose

Lifetime units: ~604,138 (P10–P90: 241,655 – 1,329,104)

Gross revenue: ~$29,718,636 ($11,887,444 – $65,381,018)

Estimate, method v1.0 — before Steam's ~30% share, refunds and VAT. The band means: we'd be surprised if the truth sat outside it. How we estimate

Player voice — measured shares of Steam thumbs, never a model

Last 90 days: 68% positive across 300 stored reviews. Action games with 100+ reviews typically sit around 84% (median of 3353 games).

Multiplayer & community51% positive · 68 mentions
“This has to be my favourite of the 'recent' CODs. The Campaign is great albeit short, the multiplayer is still active (not as active as recent years but still has a loyal player base) I think it has better pace than MWII, MWIII and BO6…”Recommended · Steam review · Jun 2026 · 181 h played
Performance & stability14% positive · 42 mentions
“I’ve played a lot of CoD games, but most of them were before Modern Warfare 2019. Now here I am, playing one of the newer ones, and I gotta say, holy crap! This game was amazing, though there were a few flaws I had to fix. The gunplay is…”Recommended · Steam review · May 2026 · 9 h played
Story & writing65% positive · 20 mentions
“I’ve played a lot of CoD games, but most of them were before Modern Warfare 2019. Now here I am, playing one of the newer ones, and I gotta say, holy crap! This game was amazing, though there were a few flaws I had to fix. The gunplay is…”Recommended · Steam review · May 2026 · 9 h played
Gameplay & mechanics72% positive · 18 mentions
“I’ve played a lot of CoD games, but most of them were before Modern Warfare 2019. Now here I am, playing one of the newer ones, and I gotta say, holy crap! This game was amazing, though there were a few flaws I had to fix. The gunplay is…”Recommended · Steam review · May 2026 · 9 h played
Price & value29% positive · 17 mentions
“I got this game two weeks after it released on my Xbox One X, and I played the hell out of it. I really loved the Campaign, Multiplayer, and especially Zombies. The campaign was very well written and easy to follow. Even the two side…”Recommended · Steam review · Jun 2026 · 9 h played
Content & longevity67% positive · 15 mentions
“I got this game two weeks after it released on my Xbox One X, and I played the hell out of it. I really loved the Campaign, Multiplayer, and especially Zombies. The campaign was very well written and easy to follow. Even the two side…”Recommended · Steam review · Jun 2026 · 9 h played
Visuals & audio43% positive · 14 mentions
“I adore this game. But I mostly exclusively played Zombies. Got CW with my RTX 3080 during the Crypto-Boom and repurchased it for Steam. I love the movement, aesthetics, gameplay, it's just hard to find friendly cooperative people…”Recommended · Steam review · Jul 2026 · 167 h played

300 recent English reviews stored · topics keyword-matched · topics under 12 mentions stay hidden · methodology

Game DNA — store facts, community tag votes, labeled AI inference

Perspective

First-person

How you play together

Single-playerMultiplayerPvPCo-opOnline co-op

Platform features

AchievementsFull controller support

Business model

In-app purchasesBuy to play

Sources: Valve store fields · community tag votes · AI-inferred values are marked and drawn from a fixed vocabulary.

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