How do players who really played Diablo IV rate it? TrueGG Rating 67.1%
Players who really played rate it about the same as Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks.
Good for
- Players willing to push through a slow start
Think twice if you are
- Players who judge a game in the first hours (early ratings are lower)
- Players who put story first
- Players wary of microtransactions and DLC
A rule-based guide from review patterns (no AI). How
vs Steam overall
Positive among players with 20+ hours (last 180 days) · 8,467 reviews
- TrueGG, all time
- 67.0%
- Steam overall
- 65.3%
- Japanese, all time
- 60.6%
Early wall
Reviews written under 2 hours: 9.9% of all reviews. Their positive share is 31.3%.
This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).
Does the rating change the longer people play?
Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.
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| Playtime | Positive | Japanese | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0–1 h | 21.4% | 0.0% | 346 |
| 1–2 h | 29.1% | — | 230 |
| 2–5 h | 67.8% | 100.0% | 1,058 |
| 5–10 h | 78.5% | 60.0% | 1,389 |
| 10–20 h | 80.1% | 62.5% | 1,781 |
| 20–50 h | 75.3% | 76.5% | 2,767 |
| 50–100 h | 71.0% | 72.7% | 2,021 |
| 100–200 h | 64.3% | 66.7% | 1,650 |
| 200+ h | 54.2% | 66.7% | 2,029 |
How long people play: half of reviewers had played 20+ hours. 56% had 20+ hours and 23% had 100+ hours (all time).
Summary
Diablo IV has a TrueGG Rating of 67.1%: the positive share among 8,467 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 20+ hours, close to Steam's overall 65.3%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 67.0%).
Reviews written under 2 hours make up 10% of the total, and only 31% of them are positive. Some players bounce off early, but those who get past the opening rate it higher. Steam accepts refund requests within 2 hours of play and 14 days of purchase.
In the last 180 days, approval peaks at 80% around 10–20h and falls to 54% at 200h+: in the current version, long-time players are harsher.
Negative reviews most often mention the story (more than at launch), monetization and DLC (more than at launch), and crashes and bugs. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels.
Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 60.6%, 6.4 points below all languages.
Re-weighting reviews by trust signals gives 61.7% (-3.5 points vs Steam overall); keep this in mind when reading the headline number.
All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.
Why it is rated this way
It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).
− Most mentioned complaints
- Story29% of negative reviews (19% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · more than at launch · 9 positive reviews say it improved
- Monetization & DLC23% of negative reviews (8% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players · more than at launch
- Crashes & bugs19% of negative reviews (3% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch
- Boring / repetitive13% of negative reviews (4% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players · ongoing since launch
- Updates & developers12% of negative reviews (6% of positive) · most common among 100h+ players · ongoing since launch · 6 positive reviews say it improved
+ What players praise
- Fun & feel36% of positive reviews (20% of negative)
Counted from 490 recent negative and 524 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count
Checking the numbers
Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.
| Metric | Positive | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Official Steam rating | 65.3% | All time, all languages · 80,145 reviews |
| Adjusted rating | 61.7% | Weighted by trust (95% range 60.8%–62.6%), −3.5pt vs official |
| Japanese-language reviews | 54.1% | All time, Japanese-language reviews (−11.1pt vs overall) · 414 reviews |
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Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.
| Condition | Positive reviews | Negative reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Under 2 hours played at review | 1% | 5% |
| Very short text | 44% | 12% |
| Key activated outside Steam | 11% | 11% |
| Received for free | 2% | 3% |
| Owns very few games | 19% | 10% |
| Over 100 reviews written | 2% | 4% |
| Average trust (1.0 = full) | 0.75 | 0.88 |
The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 53.4 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19
When did the rating change?
Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.
Reviews per month
Positive share per month
Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.
Updates and ratings before and after
| Date | Announcement | 2 months before → after |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | Season of Hell’s Legacy Is Live — Play for Free | — |
| 2026-06-30 | Diablo IV | Season of Death Awakening | Season 14 Now Live! | 71% → 65% (−6.4pt) |
| 2026-04-28 | Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred Expansion Available Now | 75% → 74% (−1.6pt) |
| 2026-03-05 | Diablo IV | Season of Slaughter | Season 12 Now Live! | 75% → 71% (−4.3pt) |
| 2025-12-16 | Diablo IV | Season of Divine Intervention | Season 11 Now Live! | 77% → 75% (−2.0pt) |
| 2025-09-23 | Diablo IV | Season of Infernal Chaos | Season 10 Now Live! | 70% → 77% (+7.2pt) |
| 2025-07-01 | Diablo IV | Sins of the Horadrim | Season 9 Now Live! | 62% → 71% (+8.8pt) |
| 2024-10-09 | The expansion is here and has left its mark on Hell 🔥 | 75% → 69% (−6.6pt) |
| 2023-10-17 | Season of Blood is now live! | — |
Picked automatically from the titles of Steam announcements by the developer (one per month, last 3 years, up to 10). The dotted lines mark those months. Before and after are the positive rates of the two months before and after (excluding the month itself); shown as "—" under 50 reviews or when the two months after are not complete. An update is not necessarily the cause of a change.
Reviews per day, last 30 days
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| Month | Positive | Negative | Positive |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-10 | 2,106 | 1,625 | 56.4% |
| 2023-11 | 3,341 | 955 | 77.8% |
| 2023-12 | 1,921 | 755 | 71.8% |
| 2024-01 | 1,102 | 503 | 68.7% |
| 2024-02 | 870 | 442 | 66.3% |
| 2024-03 | 852 | 377 | 69.3% |
| 2024-04 | 790 | 276 | 74.1% |
| 2024-05 | 1,246 | 346 | 78.3% |
| 2024-06 | 2,148 | 656 | 76.6% |
| 2024-07 | 618 | 185 | 77.0% |
| 2024-08 | 1,351 | 380 | 78.0% |
| 2024-09 | 1,310 | 491 | 72.7% |
| 2024-10 | 2,111 | 1,328 | 61.4% |
| 2024-11 | 990 | 454 | 68.6% |
| 2024-12 | 1,220 | 552 | 68.8% |
| 2025-01 | 1,117 | 463 | 70.7% |
| 2025-02 | 871 | 262 | 76.9% |
| 2025-03 | 758 | 325 | 70.0% |
| 2025-04 | 815 | 268 | 75.3% |
| 2025-05 | 768 | 560 | 57.8% |
| 2025-06 | 673 | 313 | 68.3% |
| 2025-07 | 979 | 435 | 69.2% |
| 2025-08 | 1,059 | 438 | 70.7% |
| 2025-09 | 740 | 294 | 71.6% |
| 2025-10 | 1,124 | 333 | 77.1% |
| 2025-11 | 819 | 241 | 77.3% |
| 2025-12 | 1,483 | 1,875 | 44.2% |
| 2026-01 | 1,029 | 351 | 74.6% |
| 2026-02 | 741 | 232 | 76.2% |
| 2026-03 | 951 | 327 | 74.4% |
| 2026-04 | 983 | 505 | 66.1% |
| 2026-05 | 2,492 | 922 | 73.0% |
| 2026-06 | 753 | 245 | 75.5% |
| 2026-07 | 826 | 479 | 63.3% |
| 2026-08 | 373 | 180 | 67.5% |
| 2026-09 | 2,322 | 1,110 | 67.7% |
| 2026-10 | 783 | 290 | 73.0% |
Show daily data as a table
| Day | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-19 | 143 | 55 |
| 2026-09-20 | 152 | 69 |
| 2026-09-21 | 118 | 35 |
| 2026-09-22 | 119 | 64 |
| 2026-09-23 | 106 | 39 |
| 2026-09-24 | 108 | 37 |
| 2026-09-25 | 88 | 23 |
| 2026-09-26 | 94 | 34 |
| 2026-09-27 | 107 | 33 |
| 2026-09-28 | 68 | 27 |
| 2026-09-29 | 64 | 27 |
| 2026-09-30 | 119 | 27 |
| 2026-10-01 | 97 | 27 |
| 2026-10-02 | 64 | 15 |
| 2026-10-03 | 60 | 32 |
| 2026-10-04 | 71 | 24 |
| 2026-10-05 | 34 | 20 |
| 2026-10-06 | 32 | 14 |
| 2026-10-07 | 45 | 16 |
| 2026-10-08 | 38 | 16 |
| 2026-10-09 | 30 | 13 |
| 2026-10-10 | 28 | 21 |
| 2026-10-11 | 35 | 9 |
| 2026-10-12 | 36 | 10 |
| 2026-10-13 | 26 | 9 |
| 2026-10-14 | 59 | 17 |
| 2026-10-15 | 36 | 16 |
| 2026-10-16 | 39 | 6 |
| 2026-10-17 | 24 | 12 |
| 2026-10-18 | 29 | 13 |
Recent sentiment
| Period | Positive | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Last 30 days | 71.2% | 3,322 |
| Last 180 days | 68.3% | 13,244 |
| All time | 65.3% | 80,145 |
| Japanese, last 180 days | 66.2% | 71 |
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