Overwatch 2 attracted over 35M players in its first month

In its third-quarter financial results, Activision Blizzard has revealed how Overwatch 2 is doing a month after its launch. If the numbers are anything to go by, the game is at least popular: According to the publisher, 35 million players have tried the game.

According to Activision Blizzard, the new title has “average daily player numbers for the first month of Overwatch 2 more than double that of its acclaimed predecessor.” Many of the players, it said, were new and trying Overwatch for the first time, drawn in by the new free-to-play model. At the last report, 25 million of those players joined within 10 days of the game’s launch.