Recent analysis of Diablo 4's Steam reviews has raised concerns among the game's community about potential manipulation by bots. The suspicion began when a Reddit user, Nodlimax, noticed multiple reviews with almost identical content, all posted on November 23, and each having exactly 19.1 hours of game time. These reviews, which appeared during a free weekend on Steam, also shared a peculiar "-blizzard" line that was later altered. Examining the reviewers' Steam profiles, they found most had only a few games, mostly free-to-play, and had thousands of hours spent in those games, along with all achievements unlocked for certain titles, suggesting these could be bot accounts.

Valve's current Steam Awards may have inadvertently incentivized this behavior since users receive a special badge for nominating games and writing reviews. Observers noted these flagged accounts received copies of the game as Steam gifts, implying they could be linked to gray market sellers. This connection might indicate an operation intended to boost game profiles surreptitiously through reviews or establish illegitimate accounts as authorities to receive free game copies. Blizzard, with Diablo 4 primarily profitable on other platforms like Battle.net, is not suspected to be the source. More likely, third parties could be gaming the system to later offer services for inflating game ratings and reviews.

Are Diablo 4's Steam reviews being boosted by bots?nYes, some players suspect that Diablo 4's Steam reviews are being inflated by bot accounts, following the discovery of several suspiciously similar reviews and the activity of the accounts that left them.