The Daily Populous Thursday October 19th, 2023 day edition
Authored by pcgamesn.com and submitted by AliTVBG

The Diablo 4 Steam reviews are already ‘mixed,’ as players take to Valve’s platform to share their responses to Blizzard’s RPG alongside the launch of Diablo 4 Season 2. Less than 24 hours since the Diablo IV Steam launch, hundreds of reviews express a combination of praise and criticism, lowering Diablo 4’s current score to less than 60%. While the game has been available on PC since June, its Steam release has attracted under 2,500 players. Meanwhile, Overwatch 2, another Activision Blizzard game recently relaunched on Steam, still has an ‘overwhelmingly negative’ rating based on user reviews.

With the Diablo 4 Season 2 release date upon us, Blizzard’s expansive RPG game is now also available on Steam. Our own Diablo 4 review rates the return to Sanctuary highly, and D4 enjoyed a roundly positive reception on its initial release. Subsequent updates and some of the changes and material in Diablo 4 Season 1 however may have affected players’ responses, and the Diablo 4 Steam release seems to reflect mixed sentiments towards the Diablo 3 sequel.

As of this writing, there are more than 380 live Diablo 4 Steam reviews. 58% of these offer positive feedback to the Blizzard RPG, falling short of the 70% required for an overall ‘mostly positive’ rating. However, for the game to slip into the ‘mostly negative’ bracket, the number of positive reviews would have to drop from 58% to 39%, meaning Diablo 4 is currently firmly ‘mixed’ on Valve’s storefront. Overwatch 2 has only 11% positive reviews.

Since its Steam launch on Tuesday, October 17, Diablo 4 has reached a peak player count of 2,374. Potentially, this number reflects the fact that D4 is available elsewhere on PC, and launched back in June. Overwatch 2’s 24-hour peak player count is 31,457, so there is the possibility that Diablo 4’s will increase, also.

If you want to get into Diablo 4 Season 2, you’re going to need the updated list of the best Diablo 4 builds. Likewise, we’ve analysed and ranked all the Diablo 4 classes, so you can make the right calls from the start.

deathbysnoosnoo422 on October 18th, 2023 at 21:14 UTC »

-if it was cross-buy with battle.net the number would be a bit higher

-coming soon to gamepass for "free"

Ghastion on October 18th, 2023 at 20:48 UTC »

I mean, everyone already bought it. Why would anyone buy it again. Also, with the luke-warm reviews, there isn't a lot of new people who'd want to join in.

Cley_Faye on October 18th, 2023 at 20:47 UTC »

Wasn't this obvious? People that cared to play it already have it, and while some people get most of their game only on Steam for whatever reasons, it's not like BattleNet as a launcher was particularly avoided.

They just re-released a game that was already reasonably available, said game being sort of already forgotten by the masses before that. No way it would have been a big boost.