The world of Overwatch has, to some degree, always been a bit more compelling than the game that inhabits it. Even people who never play the game are familiar with its characters, and its bright vision of an optimistic tech-driven future feels equal parts MCU and Star Trek. Oh, and everyone is super hot.
Perhaps that's why a dating sim featuring Overwatch characters isn't just a logical choice, but an inevitability.
As part of Blizzard's new, more aggressive content release plan with Overwatch 2, this week the company is rolling out Loverwatch, a standalone game that lets the player attempt to romance their choice of two of the series's most popular characters: Mercy and Genji.
Mercy is an angelic overachieving scientist-slash-healer and Genji is a brooding half-cyborg ninja that won't stay still long enough to get healed. You, the player, get to choose which of them you would like to embarrassingly try to flirt with. (In hindsight, a romance story starring the two of them trying to date each other would also be hilarious.)
While players continue to wait for the promised PvE story elements, it's a tantalizing glimpse into a (strictly non-canon, the game is insistent on pointing out) world that has a broad appeal beyond the crowd of online shooter enthusiasts.
