Diablo 4 Season 8 New IP Collaborate Speculation: Who Will It Be?

In the 2025 roadmap announced by Diablo 4 a few days ago, besides some frustrating seasonal power updates, the only thing that can interest players is two IP collaborate. These two IP collaborations will take place in Season 8 and Season 10.

At least in PTR, players have found no menus about other works, so this has also aroused discussion among players. Which two works will these two new IP collaborate be?

Diablo IP Collaboration History

Diablo 4 Season 8 New IP Collaborate Speculation: Who Will It Be?

It is normal for players to be surprised that Diablo 4 requires new IP collaborate. Because in Diablo series, developers have always kept the series pure, and there is almost no history of introducing elements from other works.

But Diablo series is not completely without cooperation with other IPs, but most of these cooperations are limited to cooperation with different works of the same company, such as:

World Of WarCraft x Diablo

Diablo 4 launched a cross-border linkage with World of WarCraft in 2024. Players can get the Invincible Mount Bundle, as well as Lich King, Kael’Thas, and Garrosh transmogrification, but you can’t use gold to get these new appearances, and you need to use Platinum. In addition, Diablo Immortal also launched a cooperation project with the world of Azeroth.

Diablo Immortal Seasonal Themes & Events

Although players may not pay much attention to Diablo Immortal, Diablo Immortal always tries to make changes in the dark and cold tone.

Overwatch 2 x Diablo

The background of Overwatch and Diablo is completely different. Its game background is the near future with advanced technology. There are many exquisite skins in Overwatch, and these skins basically represent different background stories or even different games.

Overwatch 2 added several Diablo-themed skins to the game:

  • Demon Hunter Sombra
  • Barbarian Zarya
  • Inarius Pharah

But this is only a one-sided collaboration, and Diablo 4 has not added any Overwatch-related appearances or even decorations.

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Who Will Be The Two IPs?

As mentioned earlier, Diablo 4 pays great attention to keeping the game pure, and cooperation with new IPs will inevitably have some impact on the game worldview. Game developers claim that IP collaborate will not destroy the immersion of the game, and these two IPs will belong to the dark fantasy category like Diablo 4.

Based on this condition, we can guess which works the following two mysterious IPs will be.

Dark Souls / Elden Ring

These two works may be the first guess of most players, at least I think so. Dark Souls and Elden Ring are from the same production company, and after years of development, they have accumulated an enormous fan base. And the backgrounds of these two works are also dark and profound, almost perfectly meeting the linkage requirements of Diablo 4.

Elden Ring is Game of the Year for 2022, but if it is an IP collaboration, Dark Souls should be a better choice, because there are many classic game elements in Dark Souls that are very suitable for IP collaborate. Diablo 4 can release some armor appearances, or replace the treasure chests in the event with treasure chest monsters, or temporarily replace Diablo 4 Gold in the player’s backpack with souls.

Demon’s Souls

At least in terms of name, Demon’s Souls is closer to Diablo 4 than Dark Souls. Demon’s Souls, as a predecessor of Dark Souls in a sense, also has very classic elements. But because of its high difficulty, the fan base of this work is far less than that of Dark Souls and Elden Ring, but this is still a very likely choice.

Castlevania

Castlevania is one of the most classic game series in the history of games. Almost every dungeon in the game has been inspired by this game. Castlevania’s main boss is Count Dracula, and Diablo 4 has many bosses and monsters made with vampire elements.

If Diablo 4 cooperates with Castlevania, Lord Zir may change his appearance and name for a short time and reappear. But Vampire Powers has been gone for too long, so the probability of cooperation with Castlevania is not that high.

The Witcher

The Witcher often cooperates with other IPs. From the background of The Witcher, Geralt often teleports to other worlds to kill some monsters. The world background of The Witcher is far less desperate than Diablo 4, but there are some similarities.

However, most players should not refuse to have a transmogrified Geralt’s appearance, or play a Gwent card game with the background of Diablo 4?

Bloodborne

Bloodborne is another game full of chaos and despair, and the monsters in it are even more twisted than those in Diablo 4. But to be honest, the background of Bloodborne is set in Victorian era, which is quite different from the era of Diablo 4, so there are some possibilities for Bloodborne and Diablo 4 to collaborate, but not much.

The Way Of IP Collaborate

These collaborations will most likely only add some appearances to the game, such as clothing appearances or mount appearances, and the gameplay will not change much. Otherwise, if the developers of Diablo 4 really have such ideas, why not add it to the game as a new mechanism earlier?

If the developers of Diablo 4 are really creative, maybe they will add some small in-game activities or a temporary task, so that players can get gold and some limited appearances after completing the task.

IP collaborate will not be officially launched until June, and players will have to wait for a while to get detailed news. Which work do you think Diablo 4 will collaborate with?

Apr-14-2025

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