Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer

Return to the mortal realms with deadly new powers of blood, bone and essence. The Rise of the Necromancer pack unearths a trove of new content, including the Necromancer hero class and two additional…

82 27 June 2017

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy

Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Blizzard Entertainment, released 27 June 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 80 hrs to finish.

Verified 18 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer is

Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer is a downloadable content pack for the action role-playing video game Diablo III. It was announced at BlizzCon 2016. It was digitally released for the PC, Mac, and latest-generation console versions of Diablo III on June 27, 2017. It is included in the retail and digital release Diablo III: Eternal Collection for consoles. The pack adds the Necromancer class to Diablo III.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Diablo series

Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer is the 13th of 27 entries we hold in the Diablo series. It arrived 8 months after Diablo III: Battle Chest. The next entry was Diablo III: Eternal Collection in 2017. Its critic score of 82 is 3 points below the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred at 91.

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How it was received

Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 80 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 110 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer launched on 27 June 2017, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age.

Cheats and codes

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