Blizzard has a 10-year roadmap and plan for Diablo 4 and the Diablo series

Last week, Blizzard released its first roadmap for Diablo 4, giving fans a quick rundown of what's in store for the rest of the year, from seasons to overhauls to cross-franchise "IP collaborations" coming to the game. It also teased a second expansion coming for 2026 alongside a new playable class.

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In a recent interview with gaming publication The Game File, Blizzard's Rod Fergusson, the head of the Diablo series and games at the studio, said, "We're here for the long haul." This was in response to a general question about Diablo, its future, and a possible Diablo 5. It turns out that Blizzard's actual Diablo roadmap covers an entire decade.

"We've been doing long-range planning recently," Rod Fergusson adds. "And I've created a roadmap - a 10-year roadmap. It was actually a 12-year roadmap, and I can see this, this, this, and this and all these different things that we can do, which is really inspiring. And it's really exciting."

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Diablo 4's 2025 roadmap, image credit: Blizzard.

In addition, he added that the team is "focused on what players want" while invoking the usual videogame cone of silence with an "I can't tell you much more than that." Hearing that Blizzard has a 10-year roadmap for the Diablo series, which includes Diablo 4, alongside continued support for Dialo 2: Resurrected, Diablo 3, and the mobile Diablo Immortal, is good news for fans.

Focusing on what players want has been ongoing with Diablo 4's post-launch content rollout, with new seasons bringing overhauls, quality-of-life features, and improvements based on feedback. The Diablo 4 2025 roadmap Blizzard released last week hints at an overhaul to the game's Nightmare Dungeon endgame system and how the Battle Pass works, and it announces that leaderboards are coming soon.

As far as 10 years of Diablo 4 go, it is unusual for a game to get this level of support for so long. With a decade separating the release of Diablo 3 and Diablo 4, we would guess that at some point in the 10-year plan (probably in the second half), Diablo 5 will be unveiled/released.