Diablo 4 player count in Season 3 & is it a dead game? (May 2024)

With Diablo 4 Season 4 a few weeks away, Season 3 is starting to wind its way down - and I've taken a look at the player count estimates to find out how the game is doing. So far, Diablo 4 has had its ups and downs, with some seasons looked on more favourably than others.

As it stands, Season 3 is one of the lower points for the game, with Season 4 promising a whole host of tuning and content updates - especially with regards to the loot system. Here's how things currently stand with the Diablo 4 player count, and what we can learn from the numbers.

Player count towards the end of Season 3

Blizzard doesn’t release its player number figures directly, but according to Active Player, Diablo 4 has had an active player count of 4,318,069 users in the last 30 days.

This is a slight decline of 5% compared to the previous 30 days and is likely due to Season 3 slowly coming to an end. It was actually supposed to finish up in the middle of April, but a delay to Season 4 extended this slightly. Players are clearly looking forward to the new content that's on the horizon.

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As you can see from the table above, Diablo 4 saw a significant rise in players between the end of 2023 and the start of 2024, hitting just over 5 million players with a 500,000 increase. This was followed by a massive drop of over 1.3 million players in February, the biggest loss month over month the game has had so far.

That said, the player count has risen steadily in the last month with an increase of over 240,000 players. With a significant season on the way next month, it seems like the fanbase is preparing to jump back in.

While it's only one part of one single platform, we can also look at SteamDB for player numbers of Steam itself. April is averaging around 6,500 concurrent players per day, with the all-time concurrent player peak being 28,836 on November 25, 2023.

Daily player count

In terms of daily figures, Diablo 4 has also seen a peak average of 1.22 million players at any one time, an increase over last month and the second-highest daily average so far.

It's worth noting that these figures account for players on every platform, including PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. Diablo 4 player counts on individual platforms will be lower, although the game does support crossplay.

Diablo 4 Twitch viewership

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According to TwitchTracker.com, Diablo 4 hit its lowest viewership in September 2023, with just 1.2K views. The average viewership coming into May is 1.3K, almost setting a new low and a number that's been slowly declining over several months.

This is expected, as Diablo 4 has developed a pattern of becoming much more popular on Twitch when a new season launches, and dwindling in between. The peak for the launch of Season 3 was not the highest, bringing in only 5K viewers on average. We'll just have to wait and see if Season 4 improves the numbers. 

Is Diablo 4 a dead game?

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Based on the numbers, it would appear that we can’t call Diablo 4 a 'dead game' just yet. I usually define whether a game is dead by taking into account the following factors:

• Is the daily player count high enough so that you can play with others without waiting in a queue?
• Is the game still being supported with new content from its developer?

On both of those fronts, it's very easy to find other players to squad up with due to the crossplay nature of its gameplay. What's more, the game is still receiving very regular content updates, with rolling seasonal content and a new expansion pack slated for later in 2024.

Despite the huge drop in numbers since the beginning of Season 2, the game has seemingly clawed a large portion of its audience back, especially with the ongoing support of Season 3.

While this season hasn't been the most popular, it does seem like fans are excited about the changes coming in Season 4, which should drive up player numbers.

For more, head to our Diablo homepage where we have guides on the best Druid, Necromancer, Barbarian, Sorcerer, and Rogue builds for the current season.