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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
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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 55% of 5,865
All time 🙁 Mostly Negative 32% of 423,117
“game is really fun to play”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.96
Strategy -0.74

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+1.07

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

Characters +1.21

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+0.89

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

Volume +0.47

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+2.33

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

Visuals +1.06
“animations are pretty and maps are nice” (9)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
-2.22
Community -3.27
“most ignorant playerbase ever; exhausting communication” (20)

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-3.66
Matchmaking -4.32
“worst matchmaking game to ever exist” (89)

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-2.83
Developer support -2.50

🔒 3 more indicators

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
0%20%40%60%
Aug 2023Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 5,695 reviews, peak 328/day
0250500
Aug 19Sep 16

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.

Review languages

Languages of the 315 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English25%
  • Spanish14%
  • Chinese13%
  • Portuguese12%
  • Russian11%
  • Japanese8%
  • Other17%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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