Diablo 4 acts – the structure of the Diablo 4 story detailed

04 July 2023 , 14:58

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The story in Diablo 4 is structured to have you enter multiple regions. (Image: Activision Blizzard)

If you want to get a sense of much time you’ll be spending destroying Lilith’s demon hordes, here’s a spoiler-free explainer for how many acts there are in Diablo 4.

Much like previous Diablo games, the story in Diablo 4 is told across several acts to help make this top-down dungeon crawler all the more epic. You’ll move from one act into the other, usually coming across even more powerful hellish monsters as you do so while levelling up. Activision Blizzard’s latest is a tad different in that you’re able to choose in what order you complete the early acts, however, giving you some influence in how you experience the narrative in a different way to before.

Following the Diablo 4 Prologue that can be finished in roughly 10 to 15-minutes, it’s out into the world of Sanctuary proper you must go, choosing to tackle Act 1, Act 2 or Act 3 first – they can be beaten in any order. Beyond Act 3 events get a little complex, but it very much acts as a dividing point in the game. If you’re worried about Diablo 4’s nonlinear structure and want to know how many acts make up the game in total, we have the answer.

How many acts in Diablo 4 are there?

Overall Diablo 4 has a total of six acts that make up the main campaign. As already mentioned, the first three of those Acts can be completely in any order, after which you’ll have a direct line straight on through to Act 6 and to the end of the game. There’s technically eight acts if you include the Prologue and the Epilogue, but they're brief.

Here’s a list of Diablo 4’s Acts alongside each’s title and the territories you’ll get to explore in each:

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• Prologue: Wandering
• Act 1: A Cold and Iron Faith (Fractured Peaks)
• Act 2: The Knife Twists Again (Scosglen)
• Act 3: The Making of Monsters (Dry Steppes)
• Act 4: A Gathering Storm (Kehjistan)
• Act 5: Secrets Batered, Fates Sold (Hawezar)
• Act 6: Dance of the Makers (multiple)
• Epilogue: From the Wound Spilled

Act 4 is when you’ll be able to unlock your first mount, which makes getting around the world of Sanctuary much breezier. Up until that point, though, we recommend completing the first three Acts in sequential order, seeing as Act 2 and Act 3 are level gated slightly. By the time you reach the end of Act 1 you’ll likely be over-leveled for the others anyway.

So there you have it, Diablo 4 follows the same act by act structure of previous games in the serious, but is made up of six full Acts alongside a Prologue and Epilogue. All of the Acts vary in length, but this should help give you a better idea of how the Diablo 4 story campaign is paced.

Aaron Potter