How Many Call of Duty Games Are There?

22premium mainline games — or 24 with Warzone & Mobile, 40+ counting everything. The newest, Black Ops 7, landed 14 Nov 2025.

Search around and you will see 22, 23, 24, 30 and 40+ all stated as fact. None is wrong — Call of Duty isn’t one series but several sub-series stacked on top of free-to-play games and remasters. The toggle below lets you decide where the line goes.

Mainline

Sub-series

2003

Since

500M+

Copies sold

It depends where you draw the line

Pick a definition and watch the total change. Then filter the timeline by sub-series to see how they interleave.

Premium mainline games on console and PC, from Call of Duty (2003) to Black Ops 7 (2025).

Notice there is no "Call of Duty 5" — the series jumped from numbered titles to named sub-series after Call of Duty 4.

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Why no two answers match

The honest answer is a range. There are 22 premium mainline games released on console and PC, from the WWII original in 2003 to Black Ops 7 in 2025. Add the free-to-play giants — Warzone and Call of Duty: Mobile — and most lists say 24. Add remasters and older spin-offs and you reach roughly 30; count every distinct platform version and the figure climbs past 40.

That spread is the whole story. Whether Warzone is “a game” or “a mode,” and whether a remaster counts as new, are judgement calls — so reputable sites land on different totals and all of them are defensible.

One franchise, several sub-series

Since 2005 a new mainline game has arrived almost every year, rotated between three lead studios — Treyarch, Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer, with Raven and others assisting. They don’t make one continuous series but distinct strands: the grounded Modern Warfare games, the conspiracy-driven Black Ops line, the boots-on-ground WWII entries, and a short-lived jetpack-and-exosuit future era. Activision — and with it Call of Duty — is now owned by Microsoft, and recent mainline games arrive on Game Pass on day one.

The newest game — and what’s next

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 released on 14 November 2025, built by Treyarch and Raven. It is the first time the series has run two Black Ops games back to back, picking up the story from Black Ops 6 and Black Ops II in a futuristic 2035, with a co-op campaign and the return of round-based Zombies.

The annual machine rolls on: the 2026 entry is reported to be a new Modern Warfare from Infinity Ward, which would make it the 23rd premium mainline game.

Which came first?

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The sub-series jump around, so the order is harder than it looks.

Tap the one released first.

Warzone, Mobile and the money

The free-to-play side is where the count gets blurriest — and where much of the money is. Warzone (2020) brought battle royale to the series and pulled in tens of millions of players; Call of Duty: Mobile (2019) has been downloaded more than half a billion times. Across all of it the franchise has sold over 500 million copies and remains one of the best-selling and highest-grossing in gaming, with much of the revenue now coming from battle passes and cosmetics rather than the boxed games themselves.