The Arcade
Arcade is a playlist in Overwatch 2. It features a rotating variety of exclusive game modes.
New game modes, Maps, Heroes and events will get their own mode upon release.
Arcade menu
"New game modes! New rules! New maps! Enter the arcade."
No Limits
No limits
No Limits is one game mode to never leave the rotation.
"Defeat the enemy team on a standard play map without any limits on hero selection."
- Players: 10
- Map: Random
- No hero selection limit
- Allows locked heroes
- Victory: Complete standard map objectives
Mystery Heroes
Main article: Mystery Heroes
Mystery Heroes
Mystery Heroes is one game mode to never leave the rotation.
"Defeat the enemy team on a standard play map with random heroes."
- Players: 10
- Map: Random
- Random heroes
- Allows locked heroes
- Victory: Complete standard map objectives
Assault
Assault Maps
Main article: Assault
"Capture the objectives!"
Assault is a gamemode from Overwatch 1. In this mode, the attackers need to capture both objectives. The defenders need to prevent this. Assault does not get rotated.
- Players: 10 (5v5)
- Victory: Complete standard map objectives.
Standard play with a twist
These game modes rotate daily, and they are played on standard play maps only.
Total Mayhem
Total Mayhem
Main article: Total Mayhem
"Power up and embrace the chaos."
- Players: 10
- Maps: Dorado, Eichenwalde, Hollywood, King's Row, Numbani, Route 66, Watchpoint: Gibraltar.
- 200% health
- 150% ultimate gain
- 75% faster cooldowns
- Victory: Complete standard map objectives
Low Gravity
Low Gravity
Main article: Low Gravity
"Defeat the enemy team in a low-gravity environment."
- Players: 10
- Maps: Random
- Low Gravity
- Victory: Complete standard map objectives
Elimination
Main article: Game Modes#Elimination
"Compete as a team in a series of fights, where successful heroes are removed from later rounds."
3V3 Elimination
3v3 Elimination
- Players: 6
- Maps: Ayutthaya, Black Forest, Castillo, Ecopoint: Antarctica, Necropolis
- Winning heroes locked
- Allows locked heroes
- Victory: Defeat the enemy team three times
3v3 Lockout Elimination
- Players: 6
- Maps: Ayutthaya, Black Forest, Castillo, Ecopoint: Antarctica, Necropolis
- Winning heroes locked
- Allows locked heroes
- Victory: Defeat the enemy team three times
5v5 Lockout Elimination
- Players: 10
- Maps: Ayutthaya, Black Forest, Castillo, Ecopoint: Antarctica, Necropolis
- Winning heroes locked
- Victory: Defeat the enemy team five times
Duels
1v1 Mystery Duel
"Face off in a series of one on one fights. Both players use the same random hero in every round."
- Players: 2
- Maps: Castillo, Ecopoint: Antarctica, Necropolis
- Random hero
- Mirrored hero
- Unavailable heroes: Bastion, Brigitte, D.Va, Lúcio, Mercy, Reinhardt, Torbjörn, Winston, Zarya
- Allows locked heroes
- Victory: Defeat your opponent five times
1v1 Limited Duel
"Face off in a series of one on one fights. Both players pick from the same set of heroes in every round."
- Players: 2
- Maps: Castillo, Ecopoint: Antarctica, Necropolis
- Choice of 3 randomly chosen heroes per round
- Hero selection: Limited
- Disabled heroes: Bastion, Brigitte, D.Va, Lúcio, Mercy, Reinhardt, Roadhog, Torbjörn, Winston and Zarya
- Victory: Defeat your opponent five times
Capture the Flag
Capture the Flag
"Two teams of five players compete to capture the enemy team's flag while defending their own."
- Players: 10
- Maps: Ayutthaya, Ilios Ruins, Lijiang Garden, Nepal Village, Oasis University
- Victory: Capture 3 flags
- Victory: Team with more captures when time expires
CTF Blitz
"Two teams of five players compete in a fast-paced match to capture the enemy team's flag while defending their own."
- Players: 10
- Maps: Busan Downtown, Busan Sanctuary, Ilios Ruins, Ilios Well, Nepal Village, Oasis City Center, Oasis University
- Flag rule: Flag pickup instant
- Flag rule: Flag carrier abilities restricted
- Victory: Capture 6 flags
- Victory: Team with more captures when time expires
Deathmatch
Deathmatch
Main article: Deathmatch
Deathmatch
Deathmatch is one game mode to never leave the rotation.
"Climb to the top of the scoreboard."
- Players: 8
- Maps: Blizzard World, Château Guillard, Dorado, Eichenwalde, Hollywood, Kanezaka, King's Row, Malevento, Paris, Petra
- Duration: 10 minutes
- Victory: First to 20 kills
- Win credit: Place in the top 4
Team Deathmatch
Main article: Team Deathmatch
Team DeathMatch
"Climb to the top of the scoreboard. The deadliest team wins"
- Players: 8
- Maps: Black Forest, Blizzard World, Castillo, Blizzard World, Château Guillard, Dorado, Eichenwalde, Hollywood, King's Row, Malevento, Necropolis, Paris, Petra
- Duration: 10 minutes
- Victory: First team to 30 kills
- Heroes:
- If Mercy revives a teammate, the kill is subtracted from the opposing team's score.
An example of a deathmatch map appearing in the arcade roatation
[Map] Deathmatch
Deathmatch played only on a random Deathmatch map listed in the title.
- Players: 8
- Maps: Château Guillard, Kanezaka, Malevento, Petra
- Duration: 10 minutes
- Victory: First to 20 kills
- Win credit: Place in the top 4
Mystery Deathmatch
Mystery Deathmatch
"Climb to the top of the scoreboard with every player using heroes that randomly change upon respawn."
- Players: 8
- Respawn as random hero
- Maps: Blizzard World, Château Guillard, Dorado, Eichenwalde, Hollywood, Kanezaka, King's Row, Malevento, Paris, Petra
- Duration: 10 minutes
- Victory: First to 20 kills
- Win credit: Place in the top 4
Bounty Hunter
"Gain points by killing the target to claim their bounty and become the target yourself, raising your health and ultimate meter to full. Earn bonus points by killing non-target heroes as the target."
The first player to get a kill is marked with a Bounty and becomes a Target. Players can kill the Target to claim their Bounty and become the next Target. Targets receive bonus points for kills.
- Players: 6
- Maps: Random Deathmatch
- Duration: 10 minutes
- Allows locked heroes
- Victory: First to 4,000 points
- Victory: Player with the most points when the time expires
Workshop modes
Arcade modes made using the Workshop.
Bounty Hunter
Hero Gauntlet
Play through a set list of heroes in a deathmatch environment. Each time you get a kill, you swap to the next hero. The first player to complete their list wins.
- Players: 8 player FFA
- Allows locked heroes
- Victory: First player to earn 22 kills
- This mode was created in the workshop.
Mirrored Deathmatch
Mirrored deathmatch
Main article: Mirrorwatch
A free-for-all battle against identical heroes!
- Players: 8 player FFA
- Mirrored heroes
- Allows locked heroes
- Victory: Earn more kills than the other players
- This mode was created in the workshop.
Event modes
Game modes that appear during limited-time events and seasonal events are also featured in the Arcade.
Anniversary
During the Overwatch Anniversary event, recent playable seasonal and limited-time events can be found here. Since Overwatch 2, these have been on a weekly rotation consisting of previous Season game modes. The assault game mode has also known to be playable for an entire week, although it does not allow any other standard play events to be in the daily rotation.
Love of Geometry
Main article: Love of Geometry
Team up with Cupid and scatter the competition.
- Players: 8 (4v4)
- Hanzo only
- Scatter arrows replace storm arrows
- Only on France
- Team Deathmatch
- Available for Valentine's Day events
Junkenstien's Revenge
Main article: Junkenstein's Revenge
- Player Vs. AI
- 4 Player
- Wave based
- Features bosses
- Available for Halloween events
Junkestein's Revenge Wrath of the BrIde
Main article: Wrath of the Bride
- Player Vs. AI
- 4 player
- Mission-Like
- Available during Halloween Events
Junkenstein's Laboratory
Main article: Junkenstein's Laboratory
- 5 Vs. 5
- Mutations
- 1 Tank, 2 Damage, 2 Support
- Available for Halloween events
Mischief and Magic
Main article: Mischief and Magic
- 5 Vs 5
- Prop Hunt
- Blizzard World and Lijiang Night Market
- Available for Lunar New Years and some random occasions.
Trivia
- Total Mayhem only has Dorado, Eichenwalde, Hollywood, King's Row, Numbani, Route 66, and Watchpoint: Gibraltar as the available maps.
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