It looks like Diablo, it sounds like Diablo, and it even plays like Diablo. With Diablo: Immortal, it’s easy to feel like you’re playing Diablo, but it also feels like an illusion. Like with all mobile games of this nature, it’s difficult to be precise, or to make your movements without your fingers slipping. Directing where I wanted to charge and slam my face for a Barbarian charge is easy enough, but as soon as I want to accurately drop a meteor on some demons, I ran into trouble.

I didn’t really get a chance to play with anything new until I got my hands on the Wizard, who can now shoot out an eruption of electricity that quickly returns to her, dealing damage a second time.īut it was with the Wizard that that I first noticed some flaws in the control system. The abilities themselves were pretty familiar for Barbarians a quick slam of a hammer here and some whirlwinding over there. I was able to do what I wanted almost all of the time, and rarely struggled to pull off quick combos. Despite being a fast-paced action game on a phone, the controls work pretty well. When using abilities that require precise aiming, holding down the button will let you draw where you want to aim. The game is controlled completely with a touchscreen, with a virtual thumbstick on the left side of the screen and an ability cluster on the right. I was playing on a sizable Samsung Android phone, which seemed to be about the size of my iPhone XS Max.

I picked Barbarian my first time and jumped into the dungeon to slay some demons. The BlizzCon demo starts out by asking which class you want to play. But how does it actually work, and is it fun to control? I ran through the BlizzCon demo three different times in order to answer those questions. It’s a game that looks and plays a lot like Diablo 3, all from the comfort of your mobile phone. Diablo: Immortal was recently announced at BlizzCon 2018.

Diablo immortal gameplay impressions