All Call of Duty games in order

Call of Duty Games in order based on release date

The very first Call of Duty game was released in 2003 and was simply called ‘Call of Duty’. It was a first-person shooter set during World War II. If we put all the games that followed in order by release date until the newest one, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, it’d look like this:

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1. Call of Duty (2003)
   1. Call of Duty (Mobile) (2004)
   2. Call of Duty (N-Gage) (2004)
   3. Call of Duty: United Offensive (2004)
   4. Call of Duty: Finest Hour (2004)
2. Call of Duty 2 (2005)
   1. Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (2005)
   2. Call of Duty 2 (Mobile) (2006)
3. Call of Duty 3 (2006)
   1. Call of Duty 3 (Mobile) (2007)
   2. Call of Duty 2 (Windows Mobile) (2007)
   3. Call of Duty: Roads to Victory (2007)
4. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
   1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Nintendo DS) (2007)
   2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Mobile) (2007)
5. Call of Duty: World at War (2008)
   1. Call of Duty: World at War: Final Fronts (2008)
   2. Call of Duty: World at War (Nintendo DS) (2008)
   3. Call of Duty: World at War (Mobile) (2008)
   4. Call of Duty: Zombies (2009)
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
   1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: Force Recon (2009)
   2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Mobilized (2009)
   3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex Edition (2009)
   4. Call of Duty: Classic (2009)
7. Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)
   1. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Nintendo DS) (2010)
   2. Call of Duty: Black Ops Mobile (2010)
   3. Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies (2011)
8. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)
   1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Defiance (2011)
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (2012)
   1. Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified (2012)
   2. Call of Duty: Strike Team (2013)
   3. Call of Duty Online (2013)
10. Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013)
11. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014)
    1. Call of Duty: Heroes (2014)
12. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (2015)
    1. Call of Duty: Siege (2016)
13. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (2016)
    1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered (2016)
14. Call of Duty: WWII (2017)
15. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018)
    1. Call of Duty: Global Operations (2018)
16. Call of Duty: Mobile (2019)
    1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
    2. Call of Duty: Warzone (2020)
    3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (2020)
17. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020)
18. Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021)
19. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
    1. Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 (2022)
20. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023)
    1. Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile (2024)
21. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (2024)
22. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (2025)
23. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (2026)
    
    

Call of Duty Games in order based on the story

Call of Duty has made games of all kinds of war. Some are set during World War II, others during the Cold War, and some even take place during fictional or futuristic wars. If you’d put all the games in chronological order in terms of story, the list would look very different.

1. Call of Duty (2003): takes place between 1942 and 1944.
2. Call of Duty 2 (2005): centers around D-Day (1944).
3. Call of Duty: World at War (2008): focuses on different events between 1942 and 1944.
4. Call of Duty 3 (2006): set in 1944.
5. Call of Duty: WWII (2017): takes place in 1944 with some flashbacks to 1940.
6. Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021): set in 1945 with flashbacks to 1941.
7. Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010): set between 1961 and 1968.
8. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020): takes place in 1981.
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (2012): takes place in both 1986 and 2025.
10. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (2024): set in the early 1990s.
11. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007): takes place in 2011.
12. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009): set in 2016.
13. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011): finale to the Modern Warfare trilogy (no specific date, but somewhere after 2016).
14. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019): set in 2019.
15. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022): takes place in 2022.
16. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023): picking up after the events of Modern Warfare II in 2022.
17. Call of Duty: Ghosts (2013): set in 2027.
18. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (2025): set in 2035.
19. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018): takes place in the 2040s.
20. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014): takes place in 2054.
21. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (2015): set in 2065.
22. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (2016): takes place around the 2080s.
    
    

Call of Duty sub-series order

Call of Duty has two big sub-series: Black Ops and Modern Warfare. If you’re looking to just play these games in order, this is how you should do it.

Modern Warfare games in order

For Modern Warfare games, the release date order and the story order are the same:

1. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023)
7. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (2026)
   
   

Black Ops games in order

Black Ops games in release date order:

1. Call of Duty: World at War (2008)
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (2012)
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (2015)
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018)
6. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020)
7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (2024)
8. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (2025)
   
   

Black Ops games in story order:

1. Call of Duty: World at War (2008)
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020)
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (2012)
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (2024)
6. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 (2025)
7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018)
8. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (2015)
   
   

In what order should you play the Call of Duty games?

How you want to play the Call of Duty games is, of course, entirely up to you. Want to get a sense of how the franchise evolved over time? Playing the chronological order is the best way to do it! Do you want to follow the entire game from beginning to end? Playing the games in chronological order is what you’re looking for. You can also just dive into a certain set of games if you’re interested in a specific war timeframe. For example, if the WWII era is what you're most interested in, we've gathered all the World War 2 Call of Duty games in one place. Luckily, because there are so many titles in this franchise, there are a lot of ways to go about playing Call of Duty.

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