I am currently downloading and installing the demo.

The writeup about the game is promising. The guys who made Diablo and Diablo II are involved with it, and it sounds like they have been listening to the gaming community about what people want in games like this.

I am excited to try it out. Anyone else played it?


Official Website:
http://www.torchlightgame.com/

Steam Page:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/41500/

A Few Reviews:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/174548/10_reasons_you_must_play_torchlight.html/
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/torchlight_demo_lights_steam
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/torchlight?q=torchlight


Update:
I am impressed with the speed at which the game runs on minimal hardware. I have it at full settings and no glitches with a shitty video card (Radeon HD 2400 Pro). The game looks new, but has all of the elements of an old style Diablo game. I don't have enough time to play more now, but I'll be trying it out a bit more later.

Isn't that just the size of the demo?

I managed to play for another 20 minutes or so. I got my first level up and encountered a few sweet items.

The game screams "I AM WORLD OF DIABLOCRAFT" in a single player awesome way. I am not sure if the full version does multiplayer or what it actually consists of. Time for some deeper reading.

I am on the fence. I am going to play the demo a little more and see what I think. There is NO multi-player mode. There will eventually be an MMO, but they haven't explained if it will be on the same engine or not.

Worth of note, this game is designed to run on a machine as weak as a netbook. So it pretty much takes nothing to get it to run.

I wonder if that means that you can run it through Dropbox to keep characters in multiple locations.

When Runic Games added Steam Cloud support for Torchlight along with Achievements, I couldn't hold back any longer. I bought it for a sale price of $10 and have been happier than a pig in shit.

Here are some things that make the game great:

• Clear readable text
  
• Automatic gold pickup, you just need to be near it
  
• Pet can go back to town to sell your stuff
  
• Runs on just about any computer made in the last 10 years
  
• Itemization has great depth and a simplistic system
  
• Inventory uses a slot system rather than a puzzle interface
  
• Appropriate items stack automatically up to 20 at a time
  
• On normal the game play is fast with very little downtime
  
• Monetary gain is fast, yet there is a balance that makes you determine what exactly is most important to you.
  

And a few bad things about the game:

• Sex of characters are limited to class choice
  
• No multiplayer (yet)
  
• Fixed perspective can't be rotated
  

There are plenty of other things that make the game good and bad, but honestly if you enjoyed Diablo/Diablo 2, it is worth playing this game.

I have actually enjoyed this game more than Diablo 2. You may be right that it may get old after a week, but I haven't hit that point yet. I'll report back in a week and let you know how I feel about it.

How many hours do you think you invested into it Knyte?

Knyte wrote:

Diablo I = 1200+ Hours Diablo II = 40+ Hours Torchlight = 12+ Hours These are rough guesses. When Diablo I came out, shortly thereafter, I became jobless and spent a good three months playing that game for 16+ hours a day on battlenet.com.

Dear god man...

My WoW addiction capped out at just over 3000 hours, but that game was a lot bigger than Diablo was. 1200 hours in Diablo seems like a punishment.

Just so you know, if you buy games through Steam, they monitor your play time. It is in the community tab of the Steam client.