Genre ActionReleased Nov 9, 2010
Call of Duty®: Black Ops
Developed by Treyarch · Published by Activision
$39.99
Estimated lifetime revenue
$12.47M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$8.85M
After Steam's 29% cut
Units sold
673.2K
≈ 16 sales per review
Reviews
43,385
Very Positive91% positive
Playing now
359
13-day peak 430 · low 318
New reviews, last 13 days
+42
≈ 3 a day since Oct 4
History
Oct 4 – Oct 17
43.4K43.4K43.4K43.3K
Oct 4Oct 10Oct 17
Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.
How it compares
Action →Against the 120 most-reviewed Action games on Steam
Outearns 21% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.
Median
$57.83M
352,680 reviews
Top 10% start at
$223.75M
This game
$12.47M
Fewest reviews of the group
The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.
About
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.
- Developer
- Treyarch
- Publisher
- Activision
- Genre
- Action
- Released
- Nov 9, 2010
- Steam app ID
- 42700
- Data updated
- Oct 17, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.