ESC key not working

When I go ingame and hit the esc key to try and bring up the menu it doesnt bring up anything. Its really annoying. I would like to be able to exit the training range one day without closing the game completely

First carefully inspect your keybindings in Overwatch. If you can’t find anything wrong consider doing a hard reset of your game options in Overwatch. Go to Options > Controls, and press the Backspace key. WARNING! Doing so will also reset each individual hero custom keybindings, and your crosshair and sensitivity settings, so document those settings on a notepad before doing a hard reset of your control keybindings.

Does switching keyboards help at all? This can help rule out a hardware issue.

If the second keyboard also does not allow you to tap escape, then it is very likely there is another program on your computer that may be causing these problems. Check programs like gaming keyboard and mouse control centers (such as Razer Synapse) to see if you have remapped. Other programs may also interfere with your Overwatch controls if they are running so try doing a selective startup to see if there is a background process causing this problem: