2023-10-29 16:56 UTC · PCGamesN · editor@pcgamesn.com
While Diablo 4 has been finding its feet again of late, if you're feeling like a break then a Torchlight Steam sale is the perfect opportunity to get some distance from Blizzard's game and discover two of the best Diablo-style releases ever. With the first two games in the series, both boasting 9/10 Steam user ratings and outstanding examples of the genre in their own right, available for the price of a coffee, if you missed out on the Torchlight games back in the day then you won't want to skip this chance to check them out cheaply. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Torchlight was
2020-05-14 09:07 UTC · Eurogamer
I've been playing a lot of Torchlight 2 recently, which always has its dangers. For one thing, these ARPGs are so moreish that you can sort of chug through them forever while the rest of the world withers around you. But there's another danger, too. If I play any ARPG for too long in one go I start to think purely in terms of the trade-offs. It's sort of RPG thermodynamics, I guess. I cease to see health potions as little bottles of liquid that will help me out on my heroic journey. I start to think of them as a way of trading money and time for experience. So I stock up and go, well, this wil
2019-12-16 13:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (John Walker)
Past Perfect is a retrospective column in which we look back into gaming history to see whether old favourites are still worth playing today. The Confusion I feel like I’m having a sort of ARPG existential crisis. With Diablo III continuing to be so popular, the same game finding a new audience and fresh buzz seven years on with its Switch release last year, I wondered if Torchlight II could do the same. A wondering that probably reveals a damning lot, since Torchlight II was actually re-released for Switch, PS4 and XB1 in September this year, and I didn’t even notice. At the tim
2019-10-18 11:03 UTC · Eurogamer
Five of the Best is a weekly series about the bits of games we overlook, those poor old things. I'm talking about crowds, potions, mountains, hands - things we barely notice at the time but can recall years later because they're so important to the overall memory of the game. Now is the time to celebrate them - you and me both! I will share my memories but I'm just as eager to hear yours, so please share them in the comments below. We've had some great discussions in our other Five of the Best pieces. But now it satchelly time to talk about this week's topic... Read more
2019-09-04 07:04 UTC · Eurogamer
For me, the thing about a game like Torchlight 2 is that when I'm playing it I'm never entirely paying attention. Or rather I'm never giving it my entire attention. This is not a slight. If anything, I love the effect this has, because it means that when I replay it after a long absence, phrases return to me like fragments of some dream I can only half remember. The Temple Steppes. The Path of the Honored Dead. These things, I can just about get the tips of my fingers on them when I root through my life for their origin. Maybe they muddle around inside my head all the time when I'm not playing
2018-08-22 16:31 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Dominic Tarason)
Announced two weeks ago, we’re finally getting our first peek at how co-op action RPG Torchlight Frontiers looks in motion. While there’s still some big talk about the game being a “shared world” that new developers Echtra Games have yet to explain, the new trailer looks enough like Torchlight 2 to me, which is all I’m looking for in a sequel like this. Take a peek at its new classes and environments in the trailer below, although sadly accompanied by music that sounds more Danny Elfman than Diablo 2. (more…)
2018-08-09 13:47 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
Perfect World Entertainment today announced a new game in the action-RPG series Torchlight, nine months after shutting down the studio which created it. But some scraps of Runic Games have survived to make Torchlight Frontiers, as this new one is named, including Runic co-founder Max Schaefer and other unnamed former Torchlight folks at his new studio, Echtra Games. Weird. What a weird situation. Torchlight Frontiers will go down in a “shared world”, which I assume mean it does that Destiny thing of scattering rando online players around while you all go hitting monsters until th
2017-11-17 11:00 UTC · Eurogamer
The Mapworks is the heart of Torchlight 2. In many ways it feels like the heart of so much that is great in video games in general. You spawn at the portal and then you walk out, along a narrow golden bridge, to a magical clockwork escapement suspended in the void. I can imagine what the floor feels like here: the glossiness of the crystal and polished metal, and that hum coming up through your feet that suggests vast energies twisting and churning beneath you. The Mapworks is where you get to once Torchlight 2 is all but done, but it's also where you realise that Torchlight 2 is just beginnin
2017-08-01 17:26 UTC · Community Announcements · PrimeDirective
Released August 01, 2017 Enabled Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese languages in Steam version.
2017-08-01 17:26 UTC · Community Announcements · PrimeDirective
Released August 01, 2017 Enabled Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese languages in Steam version.
2017-05-30 21:14 UTC · Community Announcements · PrimeDirective
http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/3952742/0b33a69880baa8880bd1dfd534645d23ebf763e4.jpg Today the very first Gameumentary released! We're super excited to share our story with you. Check it out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BUCoec2cP3s
2017-05-30 21:14 UTC · Community Announcements · PrimeDirective
http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/3952742/0b33a69880baa8880bd1dfd534645d23ebf763e4.jpg Today the very first Gameumentary released! We're super excited to share our story with you. Check it out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BUCoec2cP3s
2017-05-10 23:18 UTC · Community Announcements · PrimeDirective
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25950413/cbd4783e33dcf285f05f7333c4ce686ce78fbf96.png Last week, we launched an official Discord Server for all things Runic – Hob and Torchlight! Be sure to stop by at https://discord.gg/runicgames
2017-05-10 23:18 UTC · Community Announcements · PrimeDirective
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25950413/cbd4783e33dcf285f05f7333c4ce686ce78fbf96.png Last week, we launched an official Discord Server for all things Runic – Hob and Torchlight! Be sure to stop by at https://discord.gg/runicgames
2017-04-12 17:00 UTC · Announcement · Valve
Today's Deal: Save 75% on Torchlight II!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time
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