Diablo 5 senior game director says the game will tell 'three stories,' including the past, the present desolation of Diablo's takeover, and the future 'terror forming' of the Sanctuary

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Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:00:00 +0000

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Blizzard has confirmed that Diablo 5 will tell stories involving the past, present, and future of Diablo's takeover of Sanctuary.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Diablo 5 will tell stories of the past, present, and future, the latter of which Blizzard calls "terror forming" Players can visit biomes that are taken over by Diablo's Dread Commanders Narrative director Jennifer Hepler says these biomes can change depending on who's in charge, and "it's a whole new experience" every time
you revisit them Blizzard has confirmed that Diablo 5 will tell stories involving the past, present, and future of Diablo's takeover of Sanctuary, which will visually affect explorable biomes.

The next installment in the isometric dungeon crawler series has been announced and will find players back in the mortal realm of Sanctuary. However, humanity has fallen into an apocalypse and the land has been conquered and reshaped by Diablo and his army. Speaking to TechRadar Gaming
at BlizzCon after the game's reveal, senior game director Joe Shely shared
how different Sanctuary will look to players and said they will travel across the Western continent, seeing all different biomes that have been overrun. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here:

Shely said Diablo 5 has "three stories that we're telling" within this
changed world: the stories of the past, the time when Diablo took over and when he and his Dread Commanders emerged into Sanctuary, and the "desolation" of the present.

"There are no people around," he said. "There are very few survivors. Occasionally, you may find a human to add to your caravan, and they can bring something to support you." You may like Diablo 5's Sanctuary has become 'an outpost of hell' where 'humanity has fallen into ruin' which paints an incredibly bleak picture that I can't wait for Diablo 5 senior game director says 'the continued passion' is the reason Diablo 2: Resurrected exists and has allowed Blizzard to look at it for modern inspiration 'Because it exists today alongside Diablo 4, we can look at it through today's lens' Diablo 5 announced and fully embraces bleakness, defeat, darkness, and hopelessness
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There's also the future, which is being actively turned into an outpost of hell by Dread Commanders, something that the team has dubbed "terror
forming."

"We call it terror forming because these Dread Commanders will actually transform the environment, transform the biome into a version of hell that relates to personal powers and powers at station," Shely explained. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

Players will be able to revisit these occupied areas, and if a different
Dread Commander is stationed there, "it's going to look totally different."

"The procedural world gives us a lot of levers to pull for that," added narrative director Jennifer Hepler. "You can go to a place, and it is under the control of the Dread Commander of Undeath, and it's going to be full of zombies and things like that. And then later in the game, you could return there, and it's either been reclaimed by humanity or taken over by a
different Dread Commander, and the environment will be totally different as a result of that.

"So each time you go somewhere, it's a whole new experience and just constant new discoveries."

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