Facepalm: Remember when Diablo Immortal made headlines for turning into the lowest-scoring game on Metacritic based mostly on user reviews? Blizzard has managed to repeat the undesirable feat on a unique platform: Overwatch 2 is now the worst-reviewed game on Steam.
Since its arrival on Steam on Thursday at 2.30pm ET, Overwatch 2 has amassed simply over 95,000 reviews, 86,000 of that are unfavorable. According to the Steam250.com web site that exhibits the worst-reviewed video games on Valve’s platform, Overwatch 2 now sits on high of the checklist thanks to its 0.96 combination user rating and mere 10% constructive score.
Free-to-play Overwatch 2’s unfavorable reviews imply it has now dethroned War of the Three Kingdoms as the most disliked Steam title – not a simple factor to do.
Most of the evaluate bombs have been aimed toward the lack of content material, overpowered heroes, the group, bugs, and so on. Aggressive monetization insurance policies – one thing Blizzard is conversant in and prompted the Diablo Immortal backlash – are additionally some extent of competition for a lot of reviewers.
“The individuals who make Overwatch porn work tougher than the individuals who make Overwatch,” states the most-helpful evaluate. “I in some way bought Overwatch 1 for $40, which Blizzard then deleted and created this predatory microtransaction simulator as an alternative,” reads one other.
Of explicit annoyance is Blizzard’s determination to cancel Overwatch 2’s Player-versus-Enemy co-op Hero mode. A shocking transfer, provided that the mode was one in all Overwatch 2’s unique promoting factors. Blizzard has launched three Story Missions as a part of the Overwatch 2: Invasion Bundle, however the $15 price ticket has proved controversial.
There are nonetheless loads of folks enjoying Overwatch 2, regardless of the negativity. SteamDB lists the variety of peak concurrent gamers in the final 24 hours at 71,406, whereas the all-time peak was 75,608: it is the sixteenth most-played Steam game at the time of writing. There are additionally over 9,000 constructive reviews; it is simply that the game has ten instances extra dangerous ones.
The scenario will seemingly really feel all too acquainted for Blizzard. The microtransaction-heavy mobile-focused/PC title Diablo Immortal was slammed on launch for a monetization system that will require gamers to spend over $110,000 to max out their character. It turned the worst-reviewed game on Metacritic based mostly on user scores but nonetheless made virtually $50 million in its first month.