You start out on a small dinghy, being ferried over to Wortham where you’ve heard the undead are on the rise. And it’s the experience that Diablo Immortal reminds me of, even down to the visual styling and moment-to-moment combat. But if you’re on the go and you’re probably playing without sound, it’s not a problem. That casual nature doesn’t really jive with the grim, gothic roots of the original Diablo games, of course. Flicking the right stick to roll everywhere, wandering into dungeons and slapping everything around with a bunch of CC abilities and AOE spells that the Switch just barely handled: it was a great way to unwind, and it worked super well in offline mode, whether you were on a plane, the train or the loo. That’s a weird thing to say for a Diablo game, and yet it was a perfect fit for Nintendo’s handheld console.
I had a lot of fun with the Switch port of Diablo 3, primarily because the stakes were so low. But one thing is clear: Immortal draws so much inspiration from Diablo 3 that it almost plays like a clone. The monetisation is still up in the air, and there’s still questions on how the shared player experiences will function. The game went from being the closing mention last year to being inconspicuously absent during this year’s opening keynote, and it doesn’t even have a separate listing on Blizzard’s official press site, instead being nested within the Diablo 4 assets.Īnd that lack of separation makes sense given its early days for the mobile Diablo. You’d be forgiven for thinking that Diablo Immortal had vanished from Blizzard’s lineup entirely.
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