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Call of Duty: World at War cover art

Call of Duty: World at War

Treyarch · Activision · 2008-11-18

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Action

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

Releases: Nov 11, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 11, 2008 (Xbox 360), Nov 14, 2008 (PlayStation 3)

Call of Duty is back, redefining war like you've never experienced before. Building on the Call of Duty 4®: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War immerses players into the most gritty and chaotic WWII combat ever experienced.

Call of Duty: World at War is an Action game released in 2008, priced at $19.99, with an owner estimate of 2,000,000 .. 5,000,000 and a Very Positive (92% of 53357 reviews) sentiment.

192
playing now
92%
positive of 53k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
2,000,000–5,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
75/100
IGDB user rating (979 ratings)
23
Nexus mods (33k downloads)
13h
to beat · rushed 8.3h · completionist 22h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$19.99
steam price (US)

192 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Call of Duty: World at War is a 2008 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It is the fifth main installment of the Call of Duty series and is the fourth entry in the series to be set during World War II. The game was announced by Activision in June 2008 and was released in November 2008, for PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360, and Wii. Other games under the World at War title were published for the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation 2, featuring different storylines and missions.

Trailer

Call of Duty: World at War trailer thumbnail

Call of Duty: World at War Reveal Trailer (Official HD)

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 192 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,865 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~233/week).
  • · Review velocity up 1% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 27,536 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.1M–4.3M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 53,473 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.79 at Steam (2015-06-14)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.0k1.0k20182026Week of 2018-01-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 119 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 104 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 156 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 103 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 265 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 146 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 439 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 571 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 860 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 776 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 580 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 433 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 626 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 743 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1,029 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 675 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 692 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 539 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 521 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 538 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 582 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 638 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 647 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 597 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 478 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 47 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 439 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 477 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 377 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 376 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 428 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 90 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 355 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 318 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 399 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 377 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 399 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 309 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 321 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 352 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 385 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 313 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 339 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 312 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 246 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 307 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 313 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 275 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 300 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 254 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 291 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 320 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 361 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 313 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 307 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 278 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 273 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 259 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 255 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 252 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 245 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 279 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 255 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 247 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 266 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 247 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 234 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 203 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 247 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 166 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 204 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 229 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 284 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 230 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 193 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 162 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 12 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4731892026-09-14 20:00 — 395 players2026-09-16 04:00 — 272 players2026-09-17 11:00 — 245 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 371 players2026-09-20 02:00 — 381 players2026-09-21 10:00 — 240 players2026-09-22 18:00 — 366 players2026-09-24 01:00 — 307 players2026-09-25 09:00 — 201 players2026-09-26 16:00 — 404 players2026-09-28 00:00 — 417 players2026-09-29 07:00 — 209 players2026-09-30 15:00 — 280 players2026-10-01 22:00 — 317 players2026-10-03 06:00 — 270 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 351 players2026-10-05 21:00 — 309 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 224 players2026-10-08 12:00 — 213 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 376 players2026-10-11 03:00 — 357 players2026-10-12 11:00 — 233 players2026-10-13 19:00 — 323 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 192 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2.3k262Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 309 · peak 482Dec 2012 — avg 380 · peak 862May 2013 — avg 402 · peak 820Oct 2013 — avg 354 · peak 705Mar 2014 — avg 479 · peak 929Aug 2014 — avg 736 · peak 2,231Jan 2015 — avg 1,451 · peak 3,142Jun 2015 — avg 1,802 · peak 3,506Nov 2015 — avg 1,645 · peak 4,053Apr 2016 — avg 1,906 · peak 4,675Sep 2016 — avg 1,791 · peak 3,843Feb 2017 — avg 1,238 · peak 2,202Jul 2017 — avg 1,450 · peak 2,420Dec 2017 — avg 962 · peak 1,667May 2018 — avg 743 · peak 1,265Oct 2018 — avg 729 · peak 1,235Mar 2019 — avg 653 · peak 1,104Aug 2019 — avg 726 · peak 1,069Jan 2020 — avg 731 · peak 1,258Jun 2020 — avg 912 · peak 1,378Nov 2020 — avg 897 · peak 1,313Apr 2021 — avg 598 · peak 911Sep 2021 — avg 524 · peak 840Feb 2022 — avg 485 · peak 704Jul 2022 — avg 436 · peak 621Dec 2022 — avg 375 · peak 553May 2023 — avg 418 · peak 688Oct 2023 — avg 416 · peak 653Mar 2024 — avg 395 · peak 635Aug 2024 — avg 427 · peak 703Jan 2025 — avg 370 · peak 603Jun 2025 — avg 372 · peak 596Nov 2025 — avg 369 · peak 683Apr 2026 — avg 326 · peak 533Aug 2026 — avg 319 · peak 513
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
11112026-09-222026-10-142026-09-22: 5 new positive2026-09-24: 6 new positive2026-09-24: 2 new negative2026-09-25: 6 new positive2026-09-26: 4 new positive2026-09-28: 7 new positive2026-09-29: 4 new positive2026-09-29: 1 new negative2026-09-30: 3 new positive2026-10-01: 11 new positive2026-10-01: 2 new negative2026-10-03: 3 new positive2026-10-03: 2 new negative2026-10-05: 9 new positive2026-10-07: 3 new positive2026-10-07: 1 new negative2026-10-08: 6 new positive2026-10-09: 5 new positive2026-10-10: 3 new positive2026-10-10: 1 new negative2026-10-11: 10 new positive2026-10-11: 1 new negative2026-10-13: 4 new positive2026-10-13: 2 new negative2026-10-14: 4 new positive
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$9.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-05-12 — best price $9.992015-07-16 — best price $19.992015-12-11 — best price $9.992016-01-31 — best price $9.992016-04-18 — best price $19.992016-05-31 — best price $19.992016-09-05 — best price $19.992016-12-22 — best price $9.992017-05-18 — best price $9.992017-09-07 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $19.992018-02-19 — best price $19.992018-07-05 — best price $19.992018-12-20 — best price $9.992019-03-29 — best price $9.992019-06-26 — best price $9.992019-10-10 — best price $9.992019-12-03 — best price $19.992020-04-20 — best price $19.992020-10-01 — best price $19.992021-03-29 — best price $19.992021-11-01 — best price $19.992022-04-21 — best price $19.992022-11-29 — best price $19.992023-05-15 — best price $19.992023-09-26 — best price $19.992024-02-20 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992025-02-10 — best price $14.992025-04-24 — best price $19.992025-07-16 — best price $14.992025-11-04 — best price $19.992026-02-23 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.1k5562026-06-03 — 707 pageviews2026-06-07 — 727 pageviews2026-06-11 — 668 pageviews2026-06-15 — 556 pageviews2026-06-19 — 642 pageviews2026-06-23 — 700 pageviews2026-06-27 — 655 pageviews2026-07-01 — 580 pageviews2026-07-05 — 740 pageviews2026-07-09 — 910 pageviews2026-07-13 — 1,054 pageviews2026-07-17 — 981 pageviews2026-07-21 — 959 pageviews2026-07-25 — 811 pageviews2026-07-29 — 742 pageviews2026-08-02 — 808 pageviews2026-08-06 — 724 pageviews2026-08-10 — 772 pageviews2026-08-14 — 672 pageviews2026-08-18 — 775 pageviews2026-08-22 — 815 pageviews2026-08-26 — 662 pageviews2026-08-30 — 728 pageviews2026-09-03 — 647 pageviews2026-09-07 — 772 pageviews2026-09-11 — 648 pageviews2026-09-15 — 633 pageviews2026-09-19 — 690 pageviews2026-09-23 — 703 pageviews2026-09-27 — 687 pageviews2026-10-01 — 583 pageviews2026-10-05 — 683 pageviews2026-10-09 — 639 pageviews2026-10-13 — 697 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

25602026-09-30 18:34 — 256 viewers2026-10-01 00:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-01 06:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-01 21:34 — 5 viewers2026-10-02 04:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-02 10:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-03 08:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-03 14:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-03 20:34 — 47 viewers2026-10-04 02:34 — 29 viewers2026-10-04 08:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-04 14:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-06 09:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-07 08:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-07 14:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-07 20:34 — 11 viewers2026-10-08 02:34 — 4 viewers2026-10-08 08:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-09 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-09 13:34 — 2 viewers2026-10-09 19:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-10 01:34 — 18 viewers2026-10-10 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 04:34 — 25 viewers2026-10-11 10:34 — 13 viewers2026-10-11 16:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-11 22:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-12 04:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-12 10:34 — 6 viewers2026-10-13 07:34 — 3 viewers2026-10-13 13:34 — 9 viewers2026-10-13 19:34 — 22 viewers2026-10-14 01:34 — 14 viewers2026-10-14 07:34 — 1 viewers2026-10-14 10:34 — 4 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox 360 (Xbox)167,7775%66
PS3 (PlayStation)149,6605%65

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

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

Player tags

FPSWarGoreCo-opActionClassicShooterZombiesModdableHistorical

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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