Overwatch 2's recent reviews jump to “mixed” after becoming the worst user-reviewed game ever on Steam
Blog Andrew Joseph 21 Feb , 2025 0
Overwatch Season 2, Season 15 seems to be good, improving the mood of the worst user-reviewed game on Steam.
Now, we have been nearly nine years from the 2016 Overwatch debut and the two halves of Overwatch 2 launch, August 2023, Overwatch 2 became the worst user-reviewed game everAfter the developer Blizzard, most negative comments focused on monetization as it forced its premium predecessor to update to free streaming sequels, making the original Overwatch unplayable in 2022.
Overwatch 2 then encountered a lot of controversy Cancel its long-awaited PVE hero mode – Players say that a feature justifies the existence of the sequel.
But while Overwatch 2 still rates Steam for all reviews “main” user reviews, recent reviews show improvements to “mixed”. This means that 43% of the remaining 5,325 user reviews in the past 30 days are positive.
This may not sound like much, but for Overwatch 2, it has been suffering from overwhelming negativity since its release on Valve’s platform, which is an important milestone.
This improvement is related to the recent Season 15 release Many dramatic changes to Overwatch 2 2. While the previous roadmap includes most of what you expect to see in terms of new content, the core game itself has seen a shift in earthquakes, including an increase in the increase in hero allowance and the return of the loot box.
“They just released Overwatch 2,” a recent positive comment read. “The latest update is what the game that the company's greed hinders should always be.”
“I have to come to Overwatch’s defense at one time and say they did step up the game,” another said. “Go back to something that works in Overwatch 1 while introducing new and interesting mechanics into the game. A certain game locks them up and I will never be happy again. Now, we're going to wait with a real cool BattlePass One season.”
This is a popular reference Marvel competitorsSince its launch in December, similar competitive multiplayer hero shooter games from NetEase have been downloaded 40 million times.
Recent interview GamesRadarOverwatch 2 director Aaron Keller discusses the new reality Blizzard discovers itself, Marvel rivals are now out of the wild, attracting tens of millions of players.
Keller said: “Obviously, we're in a new competitive landscape, and I think that for Overwatch we've never really participated, and in this case there's another game that's so with the game we've created resemblance.”
Then you think it's a bad thing for Overwatch, but Keller calls the situation “exciting” and even says seeing the idea of Marvel competitors building Overwatch towards “very good” in “different directions”.
Still, Keller admitted that the success of Marvel competitors forced a change in attitude inside the Blizzard on Overwatch 2, saying: “It's no longer safe to play.”
Of course, it's too early to announce Overwatch's “back” and Overwatch 2's Steam User Review has push and pull, which shows that the game is very difficult to “mix” for “mix”, no matter how Blizzard does What. Meanwhile, Season 15 caused a player increase on the Valve platform, and the number of players that occurred almost doubled to 60,000. It is worth noting that Overwatch 2 is available on battle.net, playstation, and xbox, and neither Blizzard, Sony, nor Microsoft will publicly provide player numbers.
In the context, the new update recently updated in the mid-season itself, Marvel rivals have reached 305,816 concurrent peak players in the past 24 hours.
Wesley is the UK news editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter via @wyp100. You can reach Wesley via [email protected] or secretly visit [email protected].
