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Characters of the Overwatch franchise
The Overwatch franchise, a series of first-person shooter games developed by Blizzard Entertainment, consists of 54 playable characters across both games as of October 2026. The original 2016 game, Overwatch, featured 21 playable characters known as heroes and several supporting characters as part of the game's narrative, which is told through animated media and digital comics outside of the game. Its sequel, Overwatch 2, was released in October 2022 and replaced Overwatch. However, as Overwatch 2 had been developed to be a faster game with five-versus-five teams rather than six-versus-six, several of the characters had tweaks or major rebuilds within Overwatch 2, as well as different character designs. Overwatch 2 was rebranded in February 2026 as simply Overwatch with an increased focus on developing narratives and heroes to support the ongoing story. The story of Overwatch takes place on Earth in the "near future" in the years after the "Omnic Crisis", a period in which robots (called...
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