Overwatch player peaks have only grown since Season 1's launch weekend and show no signs of stopping as hype for the revived FPS continues: "We're so back"

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Overwatch's player numbers didn't trail off after its last major update

Key art from Overwatch's Reign of Talon event, showing the screen split between a red and blue background with four heroes on each side facing off against each other.
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Overwatch's player base rocketed to new heights, or at least heights the game hadn't seen in years, with the launch of Season 1 and five new playable heroes earlier this month, but in a rare turn for live service games, its player count didn't start trailing off soon after its big update. In fact, the perennial hero shooter actually grew its audience week over week.

When Overwatch Season 1 first came out, the game pulled in just over 165,000 players at the same time on Steam alone. The seasonal update's first weekend then remained steady, hitting a peak of 122,715 players thanks to strong word of mouth and popular streamers returning to the game.

"Not on Steam, but I'm one of the people that got back in to the game with the new heroes and I can confirm – my word of mouth is very positive," one returning player writes over on Reddit. Another quite succinctly sums up the state of the game: "We're so back"

Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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