The enemies you’ll meet are also pleasingly diverse, with a mix of ranged and melee attacks, as well as mid-level and much larger bosses that occur reasonably frequently during quests.Īlthough the game is once again playable in four-player co-op it’s perfectly viable in single player. Tunnels will often loop back together as you follow them, but sometimes not, and the mini-map handily shades unexplored areas in red to prevent accidental backtracking. Exploring feels good, even if the overworld is a strictly linear corridor of dungeons and locations, a feature lightly obscured by frequent meanderings and dead ends.ĭungeons are similarly twisty, with plenty of splits in passageways. Even the bosses are cute and multi-coloured, their explosive attacks lighting up the charming isometric scenery.

Its colour palette is brighter and sparklier than most dungeon crawlers, with enemies that look and sound like tiny, fun little cartoons rather than terrifying monsters. Torchlight 3 looks, sounds, and – superficially at least – plays much like its predecessors. Unfortunately, shortly after that developer, Runic Games shut down, leaving the third instalment to a brand new team. The first outing was a mid-budget Diablo clone with a more light-hearted approach and the same loot loving heart, while Torchlight 2, which came out at the same time as Diablo 3, actually managed to be considerably better and more complete than its inspiration at launch. The Torchlight franchise has had a strange history. The indie alternative to Diablo, that beat Blizzard at its own game, gets a new sequel with some new ideas about how to advance the genre. Torchlight 3 – new sequel, new problems (pic: Perfect World)

Torchlight 2 synergies best solo class