All Call of Duty games in order, by release date and chronologically

By Sam Hill and Lloyd Coombes Updated October 22, 2025

Love it or hate it, everyone has an opinion on Call of Duty. The long-running first-person shooter franchise is one of the most successful video game series of all time, and it’s come a long way – both in terms of graphical fidelity and the way it’s jumped around the timeline of war.

While the original game marked a cinematic look at World War II, its successors have taken us across Vietnam, the Cold War, the modern-day, and even to space. The series’ also set the blueprint for online multiplayer across the medium with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare pioneering loadouts and persistent upgrades.

Whether you jumped on the series in recent years, have been around since the surprise arrival of Zombies in World at War, or have been ADS-ing since the very beginning, there’s an awful lot of Call of Duty games spread across PC, console and mobile. Here’s every game in the series, the year they launched, and how to play them in chronological order – although it may take a while.

Call of Duty has had at least one new release annually since 2003 — a feat that is really only matched by sports series like NBA 2K and Madden NFL. While Call of Duty diehards see this as something to celebrate, others think the franchise has hit a low point and should take a break from the annual release cycle.

The newest game in the franchise, however, has been quite a hit. Check out Black Ops 6 review ahead of the launch of its successor, Black Ops 7.

Here’s a list of all the Call of Duty games that have ever been released, year by year.

The Call of Duty series started off exploring World War II — the first handful of titles released were set in the 1940s and the series has revisited the war multiple times. While the franchise hasn’t tackled wars prior to WWII, it has moved forward and experimented by setting games during the Cold War, exploring fictional conflicts based in the 2010s and even future warfare over 100 years in the future.

If you’re looking to binge some Call of Duty and play through every military conflict they’ve included in a game, here are all the major titles in chronological order. We’ve only included mainline titles here. ignoring smaller mobile releases and re-releases (check the list above to note the exclusions).