Torchlight II Reviews

classic... oldie but goodie.... diablo 2 nostalgia ..... one of the best arpgs until poe found its footing

Even with the 7-year old potato I have masquerading as a laptop still runs this game buttery smooth. The art style of the graphics have held up fairly well over the years, and this remains one of my fave hack and slash action RPGs I've ever played. I started with Torchlight 1 when it first came out, and I've loved TL2 ever since I got it years ago.

Quite fun grind-y game. Trash Magnate is a terrible achievement. Very pretty graphics. Good gameplay even though a bit dated.

I can't believe this game is over 10 years old now. These days, I think the "Diablo clone" is a dying art, and this was one of the last really great examples of it. The fact that the Steam description even mentions LAN multiplayer as a gameplay option is a great sign of its times.

It's not bad, I enjoyed my time with it so far, but this game can be really annoying sometimes. It's mechanics are not super clearly explained and practically require a guide to to understand. For example: Dodge and Block are stats that cap at 75% chance each. Great. so that means I can make it so that I take no damage from the vast majority of attacks, right? Nope. Guess again, idiot. For some reason not all attacks are dodgeable and not all attacks are blockable apparently. There's no indication for which ones are and aren't. Then you have the Strength and Focus interactions with your skills. The way things are worded, you'd think Strength would boost physical damage skills, and Focus would boost magic/elemental skills. That's actually sort of true, but it's much more complicated than that. Even skills listed as doing "physical damage" will still be boosted by Focus if it's a level-scaling skill. Skills that specify "X% of DPS" are only affected by Strength because your weapon's DPS stat is raised by Strength. But if it converts damage to elemental, then BOTH Strength and Focus boost it or something? Honestly, I don't even know, because again, the game SUCKS at explaining anything to the player in a clear manner. Honestly, I'm only scratching the surface of the absolutely esoteric systems at play here. I still think it was an overall enjoyable experience, and you don't NEED to fully understand all this in order to beat the game on Normal (which really should be the "Easy" mode imo) or Veteran. But do NOT play on Elite unless you're really into crushing your own nuts. It's practically impossible without "cheating" with the Shared Stash by feeding that character free items from your other characters or using insanely cheesy tactics constantly (and very slowly), and even then it's stupidly hard.

Casual game with lots of replay, its very relaxing after work. love the fishing and strong story line. created by fate producers.

If you like Diablo III, you will love this too! Had a hell of fun leveling and grinding. Just the loot spiral in the end game is not so extrem as in Diablo to put that much time into it. But a lovely game! Just go for it!

Replayed it a bunch of times it's that good. Also synergies mod takes this game to a whole new level.

It is better, smoother and prettier than the first version, but in essence it is more of the same. The game has a better structure and enviroment, more secrets, better modding scene, more robust endgame systems & above all - more cute pets. It improved all things that I enjoyed about the first one, so it is obvious i liked this one too. I did use mods to speed up the grind to max level and 5k destroyed objects & I recommend you do the same if you want to 100% it.

One of my favorite isometric RPGs. Many hours of enjoyment and great achievement hunting.