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Choose one of three heroes and descend into Ember mines, fighting monsters, gathering loot, and training a pet.
Released 27 Oct 2009
Explore Randomized Mines
Send Pets to Sell
Fish-Transform Your Pet
Adventure awaits in the award-winning Action RPG debut from Runic Games! Explore the randomized depths of this boom town, collect loot, and level up to save Torchlight - and possibly the world.
Developed by Runic Games · Published by XD
Torchlight is a single-player action RPG set beneath a mining town built around Ember, an ore that has drawn dangerous creatures up from the depths. Choose one of three heroes and venture underground to confront the threat.
Explore mines, caverns, and other underground environments, battling enemies, completing quests, and collecting equipment. Areas are randomly generated with changing monsters, treasure, puzzles, and items.
Gain levels, spend points on attributes and skills, and improve your hero with found gear. A pet can fight and carry items, return to town to sell loot, and temporarily transform when fed fish. After the main adventure, you can explore an endless dungeon, retire a hero to pass an item to a new one, or use the included mod tools.
Players who enjoy Torchlight often praise its straightforward, satisfying monster-fighting and loot-progression loop, along with its colorful art style and useful pet companion. Some find its simplicity relaxing and easy to pick up; others say the dungeons and combat become repetitive, the systems lack depth, and the later game can involve too much grinding.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 66 |
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| Players | 1 |
| Multiplayer | The provided information identifies Torchlight as a single-player game. No multiplayer mode is described in the store features or game description. A multiplayer-related Steam tag is present, but the provided text does not explain or confirm any multiplayer functionality. |
| Multiplayer & mods | The game includes mod support and a level editor, but the provided information does not state that mods add or affect multiplayer. |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 83/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
