If you’ve played Diablo III before, and specifically, if you have experience with the console version of Diablo III, Immortal will feel incredibly familiar. You’ll level up rapidly and grow quickly in power, and every new loot drop is an exciting one, because there’s a 90% chance items will be better than what you already have. As many people can probably agree, the most engaging phase of Diablo games (or any loot-based game) are those starting hours. For one, it’s hard to get too invested in a free-to-play mobile game when you’re made consciously aware that all your hard-earned progress is going to be wiped forever in just a matter of days.īut because of my reluctant lack of commitment, I was able to at least allow myself the joy of taking a number of different character classes through the first few hours of the Diablo Immortal campaign. To be transparent, there were definitely some limitations in playing Diablo Immortal in its early access phase, which is largely the reason why we’ve avoided a fully-fledged review. Provided that the monetisation doesn’t become impossible to ignore in the long run, this is a very good way to get those moreish, brain-tingling sensations of looting and dungeon crawling on the go.įrameborder='0' allow='accelerometer autoplay clipboard-write encrypted-media gyroscope picture-in-picture' allowfullscreen> Diablo Immortal: The First Few Hours

I had a chance to play the final early access build of Diablo Immortal, which ran in the period leading directly up to the game’s full public launch on 2 June 2022, and you know what? Diablo works really well as a mobile game. But in the following years, the sentiment towards it softened – whether by positive player experiences with the various alpha tests, spreading by word of mouth, or the growing acceptance of mobile games. When Diablo Immortal, a mobile version of the 25-year-old isometric action RPG series was first announced in 2018, the backlash was fierce.

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