Resurrection now has more players than Diablo 4

Nostalgia is a hell of a thing.

Last week, Diablo 2: Resurrection – Infernal Edition hit Steam. The 26-year-old title, which was remastered in 2021 and released on modern platforms, received a new update and launched on a Valve-owned platform for the first time.

It seems like this was a wise move by Blizzard, as it has already surpassed Diablo 4, a much newer game, in the player count department.

Diablo 2: Resurgence has overtaken Diablo 4's Steam player count

Diablo 2 was released in the glorious year 2000. At the time, it became the “fastest-selling computer game” according to the Guinness Book of World Records, and its legacy only grew from there. In 2021, Diablo 2: Resurrected was released, with remastered graphics and some other tweaks, and a few days ago, Diablo 2 received a third release, Diablo 2: Resurrected – Inferno Edition.

This time, Blizzard added “new classes, fresh content, quality-of-life upgrades, and an overhauled endgame,” and apparently, this, along with the Steam release, is exactly what Diablo fans need.

A new class, the Warlock, arrived in both Diablo 2: Resurrected and Diablo 4, but it was the former that gained the most traction.

According to SteamDB, at the time of writing, Diablo 2: Resurrected – Infernal Edition has 5,318 players, peaking at 8,683 players in the last 24 hours, and 11,749 since release. During that same time period, Diablo 4 managed 4,927, 8,109, and 11,047 players, meaning the 26-year-old title handily beat out titles released in 2023.

Reviews for both games over the past week also paint a similar picture. Diablo 2: Resurrected has received 1,879 positive reviews and only 215 negative ones, for a positive score of 89.76 percent. Diablo 4 received 272 positive and 69 negative reviews over the past week, for a net 74 percent positive.

While the fortunes of the two games are a little mixed, Diablo fans are feasting right now.