Overwatch Anniversary

The Overwatch Anniversary, also known as Year One, was an event in Overwatch.

Its purpose was to celebrate the game's first anniversary. The event began on May 23rd and ended on June 12th.

Cosmetics

All loot boxes bought or earned during the event were shaped like ordinary loot boxes but had a blackened color scheme. Each contains at least one Overwatch Anniversary cosmetic. Overwatch Anniversary cosmetics could also be unlocked with credits through the Hero Gallery while the event was running.

Overwatch Anniversary cosmetics include:

• 24 hero-exclusive sprays, and a general spray
• 48 voice lines
• 11 skins
• 24 emotes
• New player icons

Maps

The event also released three new arena maps: Black Forest, Castillo, and Necropolis, which are based on Eichenwalde, Dorado and Temple of Anubis, respectively.

Trivia

• Individual pieces of content reveals were done by different Overwatch accounts: the Dance emote reveals were done by the Spanish team, the Voice line reveals done by the English team, and the Map reveals were done by the European team, Skin reveals done by the South Korean team.
• The new Eichenwalde arena map is inspired by Black Forest from The Last Bastion animated short.