Diablo 4 has acquired two main expansions because it launched in 2023, and that’s all the sport goes to get. Following the announcement of Diablo 5 coming in spring 2029, Blizzard stated that whereas seasonal tales will proceed within the present action-RPG, no new expansions are deliberate.
“We’re all centered on [Diablo 4] seasons and attending to Diablo 5,” Diablo recreation director Brent Gibson told PC Gamer in an interview at BlizzCon 2026. “We really feel like we instructed the Story of Hatred. We had an excellent conclusion with Lord of Hatred with what we’ve with Mephisto, and we’re shifting in direction of telling the Story of Terror.”
Diablo 5, which can see the land of Sanctuary thrust into the tip occasions, takes place lengthy after the occasions of Diablo 4, and it appears like whereas there will probably be further story threads coming between now and the sequel, the present recreation’s bigger arc has wrapped up following Lord of Hatred‘s launch earlier this 12 months.
“The occasions of Diablo 5 occur 100 years after all the things that’s taking place with Diablo 4, and so that provides us plenty of room to type of nonetheless journey the wave with all of the followers on the place the story can go as we make our means there,” Gibson stated. “So continuity is one thing that we’re actually enthusiastic about, however we don’t essentially have an ideal image on precisely the place that’s going to go as a result of we need to see how followers are reacting season to season.”
It’s unclear if this was all the time going to be the plan, however some followers have been actually anticipating Diablo 4 to proceed getting large new content material updates for years to come back. As a part of a live-service push that resembled Future 2 (RIP), former franchise boss Rod Ferguson beforehand teased ongoing annual expansions.
“While you take a look at the launch of the sport and this primary season, we see that as constructing a basis on which we are able to construct for the longer term,” he stated back in 2023. “So, as we take a look at our quarterly seasons, and we take a look at our annual expansions, these are the issues that we’re actually centered on for our reside service.”
It appears like Diablo 4 isn’t going to be utterly sundown when Diablo 5 launches–Gibson pointed to the continued help for Diablo 2: Resurrected, which not too long ago acquired a brand new Warlock class–for instance, however I doubt Blizzard will probably be trying to run each video games in parallel, every with strong seasonal content material drops. Within the meantime, Diablo 4 is ready to get the brand new Amazon class within the first half of 2027.