Critic scores

Metacritic

Generally favorable

Aggregated from professional reviewers. OpenCritic and others are on the roadmap.

Where to play

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OVERWATCH®

Overwatch® has 40,702 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 73,403 and its all-time peak is 122,518. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.

DEV · Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.2023

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.

Strong daily player base. Matchmaking and servers will be lively.
Currently at 33% of the all-time peak of 122,518 players.

Playing now

40,702

24h peak

73,403

24h change

▲ 19.2%

Quick verdict

Is Overwatch® still alive in 2026?

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PREVIOUS 24 HOURS

GALLERY & TRAILERS

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ACROSS PLATFORMS

STEAMLIVE

Current

40.7K

24h peak

73.4K

All-time

122.5K

TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS

Watching now

50.0K

Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo

No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.