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Diablo IV free to play on Steam until Tuesday

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Here's a chance for you to see if you actually want to buy Diablo IV. Not only is it 40% off on Steam and works great on Steam Deck and desktop Linux with Proton but it's also temporarily free to play.

Blizzard has made it free until Tuesday, 6PM UTC — so you've got quite a while to jump in and see what to expect from it. Once the free time is over though, you will lose access if you don't purchase it. And thanks to it being on Steam, for Steam Deck / Linux there's no special configuration needed and no messing around with manually installing Battle Net.

Something to note though, which Blizzard don't state on Steam, is that this free to play time only lasts until you hit level 20 in the game. Still a good few hours of gameplay though to give it a run.

With it being 40% off you can pick it up for £35.99 / $41.99 / €41.99.

Check it out on Steam.

Have you been playing it? What's your current thoughts on it?

You can see a previous Steam Deck video I did for Diablo IV below, although this was through Battle Net the performance is generally the same:

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deathxxx Nov 23, 2023
Quoting: RaySoundI hope it will be synchronized with the Blizzard account
It does.
There is not much gameplay for D4, it's all the same. Go, kill, go kill. Noting interesting.
Also beware for Nvidia users. Game is optimized for AMD cards, even on Win. For Nvidia users game has VRAM leak issue, witch lead to stutters and slow down. But there is a trick with one proton command, witch is not available for Win.
You will say - but for win we have fix alredy - but not really. They fix it, but just fast fix and VRAM usage still vary on Win.
So Blizz only fix for real a console versions. Not caring much for PC.
Lanz Nov 24, 2023
It's too bad you can't transfer your Battle.net purchase of Diablo 4 over to Steam.


Last edited by Lanz on 24 November 2023 at 1:52 am UTC
lejimster Nov 24, 2023
I will buy the game at some point as I've played all the previous versions of Diablo. I'm struggling to get hyped for it tho. My friend has finished the game and the fact he doesn't feel the urge to go back and play more is telling. He's finished all the other Diablo games many times with multiple characters.
sonic2kk Nov 24, 2023
I'd prefer to play Diablo 2 Resurrected, in fact I'd sooner buy that again on Steam than buy Diablo 4 to be honest. Diablo 4 just isn't doing it for me.
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