Overview
Call of Duty®: Black Ops comes from Treyarch and is published by Activision. It arrived on Steam on Nov 9, 2010, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, Valve Anti-Cheat enabled, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.
Players and reviews
Call of Duty®: Black Ops's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 121 players at 13 September 2026 - 07:29:22 UTC, with a tracked peak near 364. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 91% positive across 4,476 reviews.
Language and system requirements
Call of Duty®: Black Ops is available in 5 languages including:
5 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, usk, oflc, and nzoflc
| Platform | Type | OS | Processor | Memory | Graphics | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | Minimum | Not listed | Intel® Core™2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 or better | 2GB | Shader 3.0 or better 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600GT / ATI Radeon® X1950Pro or better DirectX®: DirectX® 9.0c Hard Drive: 12GB* Sound: DirectX® 9.0c-compatible *Call of Duty®: Black Ops requires an initial hard drive space of approximately 24GB to download and install the game via digital download (8GB of compressed files, 8GB of decompressed files and 8GB of installed files). Upon installing the game, 16GB (compressed and decompressed files) may be deleted from the hard drive. Please make note of where the compressed and decompressed files are being saved on your hard drive in order to later locate these temporary files for removal. | Not listed |
Sales, recommendations, and streams
Call of Duty®: Black Ops has no public VGI unit-sales estimate available and has 22,192 Steam recommendations. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 134 streamers are live with around 912 total watchers.