Diablo IV
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
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- Released
- 2023
- Developer
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Platforms
- 4 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- verified
- Download
- 90 GB
What is Diablo IV?
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 6 June 2023 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Blizzard Entertainment |
| Publisher | Activision Blizzard |
| Platforms | PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Steam Deck |
| Genres | Action RPG, MMORPG, Role-Playing |
| Languages | 14 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q73154387, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Diablo IV received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
- Color Alternatives
- Subtitle Options
- Narrated Game Menus
- Camera Comfort
Hearing
- Stereo Sound
Input
- Full controller support
- Keyboard Only Option
- Mouse Only Option
- Playable without Timed Input
Difficulty
- Adjustable Difficulty
- Save Anytime
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | No |
| Cross-platform play | Yes |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Yes |
| In-game purchases | Yes |
| Steam Deck | verified |
| Download size | 90 GB |
| Add-on content | 3 DLC listed |
| Age gate | 17+ |
Content descriptors
- Frequent violence or gore
- General mature content
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Diablo IV worth it?
65% of 74,932 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Mixed. It costs $49.99 on Steam.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is Diablo IV? How long to beat it
Total play time for Diablo IV is about 195.3 hours to do everything, and around 25.8 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 25.8h | 548 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 49h | 746 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 195.3h | 90 |
At its current price of $49.99, beating the main story works out to about $1.94 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Diablo IV system requirements
The minimum requirements from Diablo IV's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 8 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel® Core™ i5-2500K |
| Graphics | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 · runs on a low-end GPU |
| Storage | 90 GB (more games this size) |
| System | 64-bit OS required |
Can your PC run it? Check Diablo IV against your exact GPU, CPU and RAM.
Where Diablo IV sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- Multi-platform
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Estimated sales for Diablo IV
These are estimates, not reported figures. Blizzard Entertainment has not published unit sales for Diablo IV, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 74,932 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $49.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Blizzard Entertainment publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Diablo IV price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $49.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
Latest Diablo IV updates & patch notes
Pulled from Diablo IV's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.
- Diablo 4 Season 15 will let you grab its rarest items much earlier, and you can finally bring old characters along too
- Some Battle.net players may need to verify their age to avoid losing access to voice chat and other social features
- Diablo® IV BlizzCon Bundle
- An emergency Diablo 4 update makes the Mythic changes we all wanted last week
- New Diablo 4 patch notes make Mythics easier to get, so hold your turn-ins for now
- Blizzard fix up Diablo IV crashing on SteamOS / Linux
What readers say about Diablo IV
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Diablo IV on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Crashes and freezes25 of 300 (8%)
After character select, the game runs for a minute before crashing.
Steam review, 31 July 2026 · 201 hours played · 10 readers marked it helpfulI updated my system and the game and now it crashes and won’t even attempt to open the game.
Steam review, 30 June 2026 · 26 hours played · 8 readers marked it helpful - Monetisation inside the game16 of 300 (5%)
I saw free games with less microtransactions in it, this is a huge cash grab from people who didn't play any previous diablo games and just want your time and money.
Steam review, 18 July 2026 · 28 hours played · 7 readers marked it helpfulThis indie dev studio placed more effort in their microtransaction shop than the game itself.
Steam review, 8 July 2026 · 171 hours played · 5 readers marked it helpful - Servers and connection12 of 300 (4%)
Not to mention that once the servers shut down you will never be able to play it again #StopKillingGames.
Steam review, 21 August 2026 · 145 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpfulThis season has been horrible for crashes and disconnects after you open a boss chest.
Steam review, 22 July 2026 · 281 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpful
A further 18 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Games like Diablo IV
24 games overlap with Diablo IV on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are God of War, Last Epoch and Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning.
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Common questions about Diablo IV
What platforms is Diablo IV on?
Diablo IV is available on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Steam Deck. It first released in 2023.
How much does Diablo IV cost?
$49.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Diablo IV?
65% of 74,932 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Mixed. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
Does Diablo IV work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Diablo IV as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.
How big is the Diablo IV download?
90 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.
Who made Diablo IV?
Diablo IV was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Activision Blizzard.
Is Diablo IV worth it in 2026?
65% of 74,932 Steam reviews are positive (Mixed), and it is $49.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Diablo IV on sale?
Not at the moment. Diablo IV is at its $49.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.
What are the system requirements for Diablo IV?
At minimum, Diablo IV needs 8 GB RAM, a Intel® Core™ i5-2500K, a NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660, 90 GB of storage, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.
How long does it take to beat Diablo IV?
about 25.8 hours for the main story, 49 hours with the main extras, 195.3 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.