Game

Overwatch

2016 · PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch · Shooter · Strategy

85IGDB player score
1,200 ratings

Previously Take

An 85 average from 1,200 ratings: not perfect, but the kind of game people keep recommending anyway. A shooter, from Blizzard with science fiction, comedy in its DNA — loud, fast, and built for repeat runs. The player base IS the game. Jump in while it's hot.

Awards & honors

The Game Awards 2016

Game of the Year — Winner

The Game Awards 2016

Best Game Direction — Winner

About this game

Join the fight for the future in the world of Overwatch and choose your hero from a diverse cast of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities. Bend time, defy physics, and unleash a dizzying array of extraordinary powers and weapons. Engage your enemies in iconic locations from around the globe in the ultimate team-based shooter.

Soldiers. Scientists. Adventurers. Oddities. In a time of global crisis, an international task force of heroes banded together to restore peace to a war-torn world: OVERWATCH. It ended the crisis and helped to maintain peace in the decades that followed, inspiring an era of exploration, innovation, and discovery. But after many years, Overwatch's influence waned, and it was eventually disbanded. Overwatch is gone… but the world still needs heroes.