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Overwatch is a team-based shooter from Blizzard Entertainment, released in 2016. Its genres are strategy and shooter. Players choose a hero from a cast of soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities, with powers and weapons that let them bend time and defy physics, and fight in iconic locations around the globe.
Our guide coverage for Overwatch currently centres on one write-up: More guides: Overwatch Rush: Blizzard's New Mobile Hero Shooter Explained. It covers Overwatch Rush, a standalone mobile game that reimagines the hero shooter from a top-down perspective, bringing the Overwatch universe to mobile. That guide is for players who want to understand what Overwatch Rush is and how it differs from the Overwatch they know.
That is the extent of our Overwatch guide material at present. This hub is where our Overwatch guides live, and it will list further guides as we publish them.
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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.
Storyline
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.
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Game Info
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4
- Developer
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Publisher
- Square Enix
- Release Date
- May 24, 2016
- Game Modes
- Multiplayer
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Latest Overwatch news
- Overwatch's Doctrine Revealed: Full Ability Kit, Perks, and How the Vampire Support Closes Out the Reign of Talon
- Overwatch's Next Hero Is an Omnic Support - and Blizzard Hid the First Look in a Roster Photo
- Overwatch's Robo-Vampire Doctrine Arrives at BlizzCon 2026 - Alongside Massive Roadhog and Sombra Reworks
- BlizzCon 2026 Opening Ceremony: Everything Announced, From WoW's Curse of Ula'tek to the Blizzard Classic Cup
- How Blizzard Reportedly Became Xbox's Top-Performing Studio in FY26 - Thanks to Overwatch and Diablo