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Overwatch®

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. · 2023-08-10

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ActionFree To Play

Franchise: Overwatch · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Oct 04, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 04, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 04, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Aug 10, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Aug 10, 2023 (Xbox One), Oct 04, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S)

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.

Overwatch® is an Action, Free To Play game released in 2023, priced at free-to-play, with a review sentiment of Mostly Negative (31% of 416736 reviews).

62,492
playing now
32%
positive of 428k reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
28,622
twitch viewers (latest)
96.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
83/100
critic score (3 outlets, IGDB)
69/100
IGDB user rating (427 ratings)
2
Nexus mods (53k downloads)
90/100
opencritic · mighty · 95% recommend · from 139 critics
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

62,492 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Overwatch® trailer thumbnail

Overwatch Cinematic Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Thriving
  • · 62,492 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 64,453 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8,057/week).
  • · Review velocity up 95% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 27,533 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-17

Tier history: healthy→thriving (Sep 17), thriving→healthy (Sep 16)

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.99 at Blizzard (2021-11-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 8 of 8 observed days · at its all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
161k161k20232026Week of 2023-08-01: 17,530 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 160,892 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3,380 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 15,597 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3,065 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 9,187 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9,855 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10,150 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2,935 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5,790 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2,658 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5,009 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3,031 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5,908 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3,009 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5,458 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3,138 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5,669 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2,830 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5,490 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2,714 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5,629 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3,098 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6,495 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3,356 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6,131 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2,975 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5,681 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3,789 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 5,936 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3,626 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4,214 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2,820 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4,293 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2,107 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4,263 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2,757 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3,178 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2,342 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2,958 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2,179 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2,437 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1,951 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2,287 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1,804 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2,002 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1,720 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2,025 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2,165 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2,277 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2,013 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1,978 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2,073 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2,087 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2,118 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1,775 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2,198 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2,116 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2,474 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2,204 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8,755 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 6,312 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 5,500 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4,001 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3,952 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2,892 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3,796 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3,379 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4,203 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3,220 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3,557 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2,803 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3,420 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2,734 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 3,166 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2,763 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 1,314 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 1,074 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

103k29k2026-09-14 18:00 — 80,424 players2026-09-15 18:00 — 77,099 players2026-09-17 08:00 — 34,034 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 35,347 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 48,278 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 50,661 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 38,479 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 36,594 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 35,596 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 30,343 players2026-09-25 08:00 — 32,873 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 47,302 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 50,359 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 32,764 players2026-09-29 08:00 — 29,085 players2026-09-30 08:00 — 29,758 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 30,097 players2026-10-02 08:00 — 35,503 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 48,285 players2026-10-04 08:00 — 51,250 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 34,188 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 35,018 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 45,407 players2026-10-08 08:00 — 39,455 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 39,859 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 49,865 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 52,449 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 42,645 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 33,579 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 33,092 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 62,492 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
71k18kAug 2023Aug 2026Aug 2023 — avg 28,327 · peak 75,361Sep 2023 — avg 17,863 · peak 33,414Oct 2023 — avg 19,301 · peak 37,788Nov 2023 — avg 20,736 · peak 38,886Dec 2023 — avg 20,743 · peak 38,536Jan 2024 — avg 20,153 · peak 35,307Feb 2024 — avg 24,677 · peak 41,298Mar 2024 — avg 26,580 · peak 45,666Apr 2024 — avg 29,713 · peak 60,819May 2024 — avg 28,626 · peak 51,505Jun 2024 — avg 28,195 · peak 50,230Jul 2024 — avg 29,394 · peak 51,648Aug 2024 — avg 34,632 · peak 58,937Sep 2024 — avg 35,406 · peak 59,499Oct 2024 — avg 34,340 · peak 58,217Nov 2024 — avg 32,257 · peak 56,607Dec 2024 — avg 25,292 · peak 48,626Jan 2025 — avg 19,509 · peak 36,182Feb 2025 — avg 24,090 · peak 58,897Mar 2025 — avg 24,783 · peak 40,105Apr 2025 — avg 25,816 · peak 59,939May 2025 — avg 25,846 · peak 40,006Jun 2025 — avg 23,254 · peak 37,106Jul 2025 — avg 21,926 · peak 30,153Aug 2025 — avg 27,288 · peak 58,060Sep 2025 — avg 30,725 · peak 46,341Oct 2025 — avg 29,233 · peak 50,626Nov 2025 — avg 27,246 · peak 40,465Dec 2025 — avg 29,448 · peak 51,561Jan 2026 — avg 27,950 · peak 42,705Feb 2026 — avg 71,283 · peak 164,636Mar 2026 — avg 67,416 · peak 112,793Apr 2026 — avg 58,632 · peak 92,215May 2026 — avg 55,208 · peak 78,898Jun 2026 — avg 60,079 · peak 102,096Jul 2026 — avg 48,749 · peak 74,964Aug 2026 — avg 56,684 · peak 100,564
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#8#152026-09-142026-10-142026-09-14 — #82026-09-15 — #82026-09-16 — #82026-09-17 — #82026-09-18 — #112026-09-19 — #122026-09-20 — #122026-09-21 — #132026-09-22 — #132026-09-23 — #132026-09-24 — #142026-09-25 — #152026-09-26 — #152026-09-27 — #142026-09-28 — #132026-09-29 — #132026-09-30 — #132026-10-01 — #142026-10-02 — #142026-10-03 — #142026-10-04 — #132026-10-05 — #132026-10-06 — #132026-10-07 — #102026-10-08 — #92026-10-09 — #92026-10-10 — #92026-10-11 — #112026-10-12 — #122026-10-13 — #122026-10-14 — #12
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
2902902026-09-152026-10-142026-09-15: 100 new positive2026-09-15: 82 new negative2026-09-16: 95 new positive2026-09-16: 59 new negative2026-09-17: 90 new positive2026-09-17: 76 new negative2026-09-18: 95 new positive2026-09-18: 54 new negative2026-09-19: 109 new positive2026-09-19: 58 new negative2026-09-20: 101 new positive2026-09-20: 90 new negative2026-09-21: 94 new positive2026-09-21: 84 new negative2026-09-22: 208 new positive2026-09-22: 120 new negative2026-09-23: 92 new positive2026-09-23: 71 new negative2026-09-24: 60 new positive2026-09-24: 61 new negative2026-09-25: 90 new positive2026-09-25: 58 new negative2026-09-26: 83 new positive2026-09-26: 58 new negative2026-09-27: 92 new positive2026-09-27: 69 new negative2026-09-28: 70 new positive2026-09-28: 70 new negative2026-09-29: 90 new positive2026-09-29: 45 new negative2026-09-30: 56 new positive2026-09-30: 56 new negative2026-10-01: 77 new positive2026-10-01: 47 new negative2026-10-02: 74 new positive2026-10-02: 31 new negative2026-10-03: 62 new positive2026-10-03: 49 new negative2026-10-04: 92 new positive2026-10-04: 85 new negative2026-10-05: 95 new positive2026-10-05: 47 new negative2026-10-06: 290 new positive2026-10-06: 153 new negative2026-10-07: 197 new positive2026-10-07: 90 new negative2026-10-08: 98 new positive2026-10-08: 61 new negative2026-10-09: 83 new positive2026-10-09: 65 new negative2026-10-10: 98 new positive2026-10-10: 61 new negative2026-10-11: 99 new positive2026-10-11: 45 new negative2026-10-12: 93 new positive2026-10-12: 42 new negative2026-10-13: 93 new positive2026-10-13: 40 new negative2026-10-14: 77 new positive2026-10-14: 40 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$42.91$0.002016-05-272026-10-142016-05-27 — best price $40.002016-12-20 — best price $29.992017-05-23 — best price $29.992017-06-06 — best price $40.002017-09-22 — best price $29.992018-02-16 — best price $19.992018-07-26 — best price $19.992018-10-11 — best price $39.992018-10-13 — best price $39.992018-10-16 — best price $42.912018-10-18 — best price $24.582018-11-29 — best price $39.992019-01-07 — best price $39.992019-04-16 — best price $14.992019-09-27 — best price $14.992019-10-31 — best price $14.992019-11-26 — best price $14.992019-12-19 — best price $14.992020-06-04 — best price $14.992020-08-05 — best price $14.992020-11-24 — best price $14.992020-12-21 — best price $14.992021-02-04 — best price $14.992021-04-06 — best price $14.992021-05-18 — best price $14.992021-06-29 — best price $14.992021-08-31 — best price $14.992021-09-23 — best price $14.992021-10-26 — best price $14.992021-11-18 — best price $9.992021-12-16 — best price $14.992022-01-27 — best price $14.992022-03-25 — best price $14.992022-06-01 — best price $14.992023-10-10 — best price $0.002026-09-02 — best price $0.002026-09-16 — best price $0.002026-09-30 — best price $0.002026-10-14 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

174k1.8k2026-09-30 18:34 — 18,134 viewers2026-10-01 06:12 — 4,784 viewers2026-10-01 15:34 — 16,418 viewers2026-10-02 00:34 — 33,552 viewers2026-10-02 09:34 — 45,419 viewers2026-10-02 18:34 — 49,593 viewers2026-10-03 03:34 — 25,564 viewers2026-10-03 12:34 — 29,149 viewers2026-10-03 21:34 — 34,466 viewers2026-10-04 06:34 — 38,593 viewers2026-10-04 15:34 — 174,074 viewers2026-10-05 00:34 — 21,279 viewers2026-10-05 09:34 — 26,995 viewers2026-10-05 18:34 — 28,144 viewers2026-10-06 03:34 — 18,215 viewers2026-10-06 12:34 — 68,398 viewers2026-10-06 21:34 — 62,225 viewers2026-10-07 07:12 — 28,838 viewers2026-10-07 16:12 — 38,973 viewers2026-10-08 01:12 — 36,962 viewers2026-10-08 10:12 — 20,716 viewers2026-10-08 19:12 — 34,089 viewers2026-10-09 04:12 — 23,165 viewers2026-10-09 13:12 — 25,888 viewers2026-10-09 22:12 — 19,552 viewers2026-10-10 07:12 — 31,018 viewers2026-10-10 16:12 — 22,272 viewers2026-10-11 01:12 — 62,297 viewers2026-10-11 10:12 — 58,498 viewers2026-10-11 19:12 — 85,720 viewers2026-10-12 04:12 — 24,084 viewers2026-10-12 13:12 — 46,406 viewers2026-10-12 22:12 — 16,598 viewers2026-10-13 07:12 — 8,200 viewers2026-10-13 16:12 — 15,251 viewers2026-10-14 01:12 — 10,622 viewers2026-10-14 10:12 — 27,130 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 28,622 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
50.6%
earned "Can't Touch This"
15.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportIn-App PurchasesAdjustable Text Size6 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 5 DLC released, first 2023-08-10, latest 2026-08-11 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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