Overwatch 2's long-promised flagship PvE mode has been scrapped

Blizzard has cancelled Overwatch 2’s much-trumpeted but long-delayed PvE mode, admitting development “hasn’t made the progress we would have hoped.”

PvE was presented as a flagship feature of Overwatch 2 when the team-based shooter sequel was unveiled in 2019, but, as development dragged on and 2022 arrived, Blizzard announced it would be “decoupling” PvE from PvP in order to get the game into players’ hands sooner.

To that end, a fully PvP-focused version of Overwatch 2 finally launched last October, and little has been heard about its once-key PvE component in the months since. Now though, in a newly aired developer livestream, Overwatch 2 executive producer Jared Neuss has confirmed the game’s PvE mode is officially dead.