Return to Tristram

Diablo 3D rebuilds the 1996 classic's Tristram and Cathedral in full 3D and first person, as a free fan-made demo.

Diablo 3D is a free, fan-made remake of the 1996 classic that puts you inside the world in first person. Walk the cobbles of Tristram at night, hear Griswold's hammer across the square and talk to Deckard Cain at the well, then push open the Cathedral doors and descend. The demo covers the town and the first level of the Cathedral, with all three original classes.

For thirty years, Tristram was a town seen from far above: 640 by 480 pixels, 256 colours and your imagination filling every shadow. Diablo 3D puts you on its streets. Every building has been rebuilt in timber, thatch and stone, laid out tile for tile from the original town map, and the nine townsfolk stand where you left them, speaking their original lines in their original voices.

Below the church, the Cathedral is laid out by a port of the original level generator, so no two descents are the same. Under the new 3D world, the rules are the old ones: the original to-hit, damage and critical strike rules, blocking, hit recovery, durability and repair, monster stats and behaviour, and magic items that roll prefixes and suffixes by the original affix tables. Swing a sword, draw a bow or cast Firebolt, Charged Bolt and Inferno from books, scrolls and staves, all in first person.

Even the interface stays where you remember it. The belt, the life and mana orbs and the Char and Spells buttons sit where they did in 1996, around a world you can finally stand in. The demo is level 1 of 16, and the team is building toward the full descent.