With Runic, the company wanted to "finish what they started" with Mythos, but to redevelop all portions of the game, lore, and art for this title. Flagship had been developing Mythos, another action RPG but with significant massively multiplayer online (MMO) components. Runic was founded by several video game industry veterans with experience from dungeon crawlers like Diablo, Hellgate: London, and Fate, many of whom had been at Flagship Studios at the time of its closure in 2008. The Torchlight series was originally developed by Runic Games the first game, Torchlight, was a single-player only game released in 2009, and its sequel, Torchlight II, released in 2012, added in cooperative play between (up to) six players. With the change to Torchlight III, the game is expected to be more of a linear approach as from the first two Torchlight games, but will still support both offline and online play. Players with high-level items entering a dungeon with lower-level players would have their items temporarily weakened to the lower levels while in the dungeon. To balance players' overall abilities, the game would have used item-based experience levels rather than player-based levels. ![]() Players would have been able to party together to explore these dungeons. ![]() Initially, Torchlight III, as Torchlight Frontiers, had been a massively multiplayer online game, introducing large surface levels that allow players to join together to fight monsters that respawn over time, and travel between the game's primary dungeons, many of which are procedurally generated. From an isometric, top-down view, the player controls their character to move about the game's world, using hack and slash with a variety of weapons, magic spells, and skills to fight monsters, collect new items and treasure, and sell and buy items in a centralized town to improve their character's abilities. Torchlight III is a dungeon crawler where the player controls a character in a high fantasy world. It is developed by American studio Echtra Games and published by Perfect World Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in October 2020. ![]() The player character delves into the dungeon, discovering that it's a "layer cake of ruined civilizations" and uncovering a plot which threatens their world.Torchlight III (formerly Torchlight Frontiers) is an action role-playing game and the third game in the Torchlight series. However, Ember also has a corrupting influence which led to the fall of past civilizations and endangers those who use it in the present. The fantasy-themed game is set in the fictional town of Torchlight and the expansive caverns and dungeons nearby, which adventurers explore to collect valuable loot and battle hordes of monsters.ĭevelopment of the game is led by Travis Baldree, designer of Fate, and Max Schaefer and Erich Schaefer, co-designers of Diablo and Diablo II, joined by the team that developed Mythos.Īdventurers explore the dungeons below the mining town of Torchlight, seeking treasure and Ember, a mysterious ore which has the power to create enchanted items. ![]() The game was released for Windows on October 27, 2009, on for Mac OS X and on Septemfor Linux. Torchlight is an action role-playing game by Runic Games.
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