How to unlock all heroes in Overwatch 2

Tallying at 40 heroes, Overwatch 2’s cast is a dense one, and you may be wondering how to unlock them all. So here is everything you need to know about it.

Even if you’re new, or have already played the game for a while, you’ll need to find the hero that clicks for you. To do so, you’ll need to know how to unlock all the heroes.

So here is everything you need to know about getting all the heroes in Overwatch 2.

All Overwatch 2 heroes now unlocked for free

All of Overwatch 2’s heroes, including newer and older heroes, are free and have already been unlocked in everybody’s account.

This massive shakeup came with the introduction of Season 10 and the release of Venture. Where the devs made the big announcement that all future and current heroes, starting with Venture, will be free.

The change was already teased months prior, but it truly came to fruition with the arrival of Season 10.

So to unlock all the heroes in Overwatch 2, you simply have to log in, and you will automatically have all the heroes unlocked. If you want to make sure, you can go to your Heroes tab to check it.

Before Season 10’s update, you had to unlock certain heroes through either completing challenges or for the newest heroes, buy the Battle Pass if you wanted access to them in the Season.

Roughly half of the legacy roster was already unlocked, with the other half being locked behind hero challenges. Heroes that were released in Overwatch 2 were usually locked behind the Battle Pass upon release, or behind hero challenges the season after release.

But now, it’s all free, and for the foreseeable future, all future heroes will be free as well.