Overwatch®

Overwatch®, A FUTURE WORTH FIGHTING FOR! Overwatch® is an always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based action game set in an optimistic future, where every match is the ultimate 5v5 or 6v6 battlefield brawl.

Developer: Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Franchise: —
Release date: Aug 10, 2023
Store page updated: Sep 8, 2026
Price: Free · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

31.4/ 100

Based on 315 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating

Recent 😐 Mixed 54% of 5,677

All time 🙁 Mostly Negative 32% of 423,368

“game is really fun to play”

How it holds up

−50+5

Gameplay

-1.25

Onboarding -2.05 · How easy it is to learn — tutorials and the first hours

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Story & World

+0.53

Not enough data — only 8% of reviews mention this.

Characters +1.21 · How memorable the characters and their relationships are

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Content Volume

-0.30

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

Variety -2.80 · Fresh content and situations versus repetition

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Visuals & Sound

+1.47

Not enough data — only 6% of reviews mention this.

Audio +3.60 · Music, sound effects, and voice acting

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Multiplayer

-2.55

Community -3.27 · Who you play with — how many, and how friendly

“most ignorant playerbase ever; exhausting communication” (20)

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Pricing & Fairness

-3.66

Matchmaking -4.32 · Skill gaps, team balance, and queue times

“worst matchmaking game to ever exist” (89)

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Tech & Support

-2.38

Developer support -2.50 · Updates, patches, and how devs respond to players

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time

since launch, by month · major update

Aug 2023Sep 2026

Reviews

per day · 5,586 reviews, peak 328/day

Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.