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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III

Sledgehammer Games · Activision · 2023-11-10

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Action

Franchise: Call of Duty · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Nov 10, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 10, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Nov 10, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Nov 10, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Nov 10, 2023 (Xbox One)

In the direct sequel to the record-breaking Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II, Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against the ultimate threat.

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III is an Action game released in 2023, priced at $69.99, with a Mixed (47% of 22107 reviews) sentiment.

48%
positive of 24k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
4,189
twitch viewers (latest)
4189.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
62/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (181 ratings)
58/100
opencritic · weak · 14% recommend · from 122 critics
7h
to beat · rushed 6h · completionist 30h
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$69.99
steam price (US)

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Trailer

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 3,790 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~474/week).
  • · Review velocity up 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 3% of 28,351 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 476k–1.1M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 23,810 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.99 at GreenManGaming (2016-07-20) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $69.99 · on sale 19 of 37 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.7k3.7k20232026Week of 2023-11-01: 1,532 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3,712 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 505 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 781 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 214 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 321 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 278 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 409 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 311 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 559 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 390 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 132 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 376 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 181 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 371 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 439 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 192 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 164 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 82 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 73 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 104 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 157 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 88 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 586 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 318 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 125 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 323 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 140 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 263 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 143 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 153 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 124 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 298 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 156 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 282 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 189 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 356 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 198 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 139 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 525 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 218 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1,487 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 903 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$69.99$11.132015-01-012026-08-252015-01-01 — best price $11.132015-03-24 — best price $19.992015-07-14 — best price $19.992015-09-25 — best price $19.992015-12-22 — best price $19.992016-02-25 — best price $29.992016-05-14 — best price $19.992016-08-26 — best price $19.992016-12-24 — best price $19.992017-03-20 — best price $39.992017-06-27 — best price $39.992017-09-25 — best price $39.992018-01-18 — best price $39.992018-04-27 — best price $39.992018-07-23 — best price $20.002018-10-29 — best price $17.992018-12-20 — best price $17.992019-02-14 — best price $20.002019-04-30 — best price $39.992019-07-08 — best price $19.992019-09-12 — best price $39.992019-12-07 — best price $39.992020-02-15 — best price $39.992020-04-21 — best price $39.992020-10-01 — best price $39.992021-02-20 — best price $39.992021-07-08 — best price $39.992021-11-22 — best price $19.992022-02-14 — best price $19.992022-06-13 — best price $39.992022-10-19 — best price $39.992023-08-06 — best price $39.992024-06-27 — best price $45.492025-02-19 — best price $69.992025-07-10 — best price $69.992026-01-05 — best price $69.992026-06-18 — best price $27.992026-08-25 — best price $69.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

39
achievements tracked
55.8%
earned "The First Step"
6.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCaptions available

14 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese…

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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