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When it comes to competitive strategy first-person shooters, people think of Counter-Strike; when it comes to hero shooters centered around character skills, people think of Overwatch. Riot Games' Valorant combines the two, so naturally many people will compare them.

Four years after the game launched, the comparisons still persist. In a recent interview with GamesRadar, Arnar Harafn Gylfason, director and product lead of Valorant, admitted: "This isn't the first time I've heard this."

He continued: "I think it's an easy association to make because it has a hero character and it's a strategy shooter." However, for many reasons, Gylfason, at least, is not a big fan of using this comparison.

"I think we feel like it's a very superficial comparison. We feel like we definitely have our own style and our own identity. And we don't like to be compared to other games... I think that's unfair to other games, and it's unfair to Valorant right now."

"I think it's more a question of the motivations of our services and the motivations of our players and what kind of gameplay fantasies we want to satisfy for our players. It's a little more nuanced, but it's not the first time I've heard that comparison."

In the same interview, Gylfason also told the interviewer that Riot Games does not consider Valorant to be a hero shooter, which allows the team to be confident in launching the game on consoles in an increasingly crowded market. He believes that Valorant "satisfies different expectations than the hero action shooters we've seen in this space over the past few years," and that different games will serve "different needs" and "player winters," which makes him believe that "all games have a place."