A New Dungeon Crawler You’re Dying To Play

Engineers with magic, Archers with knives, Warriors with fish guns, and everyone haves pets?!  Has the world of dungeon crawlers gone mad?!  Nope, they’ve gone great, and Runic Games has made an addicting, and crazy fun dungeon crawler called Torchlight.

What is Torchlight?

Torchlight is an action RPG for the PC and is developed by Runic Games.  This pure dungeon crawler is set in the mining city of Torchlight, which has a sprawling and dangerous dungeon below it: Ember mines.  Torchlight is a direct Diablo spawn, with creators from Diablo, Fate, and Mythos games; however, unlike other Diablo spawns, Torchlight has excelled past its predecessor in almost every way by offering new gameplay mechanics that fit so well with the play style, that we’re surprised they haven’t been used in the past.

Is Torchlight an MMO?

No, Torchlight is not an MMO… yet.

Yet?

Many people have asked Runic Games if Torchlight would go online.  Here is their official response: “Because of the relatively short development window and tiny development team, we decide to focus our efforts on making a complete single-player experience. However, we are already in development of a massively multiplayer action-RPG set in the world of Torchlight for future release.”

It’s not an MMO, why should I care?

Players should love, adore, and buy Torchlight for several reasons:

Torchlight is a great game! 

I think it is obvious that we love MMOs here at MMOFury, and when we were asked to play Torchlight, we thought it’d be a fun dungeon crawler.  We were completely blown away at how fun it actually was, and how fun it is to talk about the game to others who play it.  The stories you share about your epic adventures and epic loots is reason enough to play this game.

Torchlight is a huge bang for your buck!

Coming in at only $20.00, off Steam, Torchlight provides a ton of fun for such a small price.  You can make three different characters: the Vanquisher, the Destroyer, and the Alchemist.  While this may seem like a small amount of classes, each class has a talent tree that greatly affects the way the class will play in the game.  For example, you could play the Alchemist as a mage, a warlock, or as a melee wizard, and all have very different abilities.

Players will decide if Torchlight becomes an MMO

What we mean by that statement is that Torchlight will only become an MMO if it’s a successful game.  Runic Games is a smaller team, and didn’t have the means to push this game into the online realm at launch.  If Torchlight does well, the game could become a Free2Play MMO with PvP and PvE aspects.  Needless to say, we really want to see that happen, because the game is so great at single-player that we know fighting in dungeons with our friends will be incredibly fun.

MMOFury is committed to Torchlight

In the coming weeks, MMOFury will continue to play, and write about Torchlight.  We will provide articles about the many different aspects of the game: classes, pets, guides, and more!  Check back with MMOFury, and go get Torchlight for PC today!