Overwatch creeps past Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty's concurrent players on Steam, hitting its biggest peak in years

I’ve never met anyone with uncomplicated feelings toward Overwatch, especially if you count the years it spent sporting a number 2 on the end of its name, but it feels like the start of a new era for the decade-old hero shooter. The 2 is outta here, five new heroes are inbound, and the game is really fun right now. If you ask me, it’s been fun since Stadium hit the scene, but I digress—people are flocking back to the game in droves.

As spotted by Windows Central, the charts on SteamDB have seen a big upward trend in the last week. As I write this on a Sunday afternoon, it’s sitting at around 68,000 concurrent players, which is surprisingly close to its all-time peak of 75,608. Right now it’s just above DayZ and Call of Duty, and there was a bit there on Feb. 8 where it was well above Battlefield 6.