Dwarven Realms

Lead with how hard the wipe actually is. A season change in Dwarven Realms is a full server wipe: characters and progress are deleted outright. Nothing is parked on another realm, nothing migrates to a permanent league. Leaderboards lock 24 hours before the new season and reset with it. The one escape hatch is transferring a character to offline mode before the wipe lands, and that mechanism is the single most distinctive piece of this game's season design. If Diablo Immortal elsewhere on this site is a seasonal model that erases nothing, this sits at the exact opposite pole.

The second oddity is decimal season numbers. Season 5.5 and Season 5.75 are real entries, and despite the notation they are not cosmetic patches — each ships with a genuine server wipe, which makes them full seasons by any functional definition. Measured across the nine seasons we carry, lengths scatter from 44 days to 117 with a median of 70 — ten weeks. That runs well under the 92-day median across all 216 intervals we track, and under Diablo IV's 84 days, previously the short end of our catalog, making this the fastest-turning game here after Diablo Immortal. The spread is real, though: 44 days and 117 days sit in the same sample. The timing disclosure, meanwhile, is the most precise of any game we cover: the developer publishes an "Important dates & times" block each season pinning down four moments — leaderboard lock, server wipe, Chaos Week, and season start. Starts land at 13:00 local almost without exception, wipes at 12:00. Set that beside Hero Siege, which frequently publishes no time at all, and the contrast is stark.

Two things genuinely matter here. First, announcements label times "EST" year-round, but from late March to early November the region is actually on EDT (UTC−4). Parse the literal string as UTC−5 and your season time lands an hour off for most of the year. Second, the lead time from announcement to launch can be very short — Season 6 was announced on 2026-06-23 and started on 2026-06-26, three days later. If you intend to transfer a character offline before the wipe, do it the day you see the notice rather than waiting.

Season numbering here has been torn up three separate times. Early Access ran Seasons 3 through 20 on a punishing two-to-three-week cadence, reaching Season 20 in barely fourteen months. A renumbered stretch followed (0.21 through 0.24, plus a "Season 0"), and the 1.0 launch restarted the count at Season 1, reaching Season 6 as of July 2026. Put the Early Access two-to-three weeks next to today's ten-week median and the shift out of the experimental phase into a settled live cadence shows up directly in the numbers. A gap worth stating: of the ten post-1.0 seasons we carry, three carry no announced time and fall back on the notice publication date. The 27 Early Access entries are held back entirely — we have confirmed those announcements exist without yet capturing individual notice URLs for them. They go in once we have the sources.

This suits players who treat losing progress as the rule rather than as a loss. If you want everyone back on the same starting line for each leaderboard race, and you prefer seasons that are short and unforgiving, a ten-week median is a comfortable rhythm. If watching a hard-won character disappear is unbearable, either make offline transfers a habit or pick a different game on this list.