Torchlight

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 90%Very Positive · 90%2009

The verdict

A simple, charming Diablo-style dungeon crawler with a satisfying loot loop and a great pet. It gets repetitive and has a brutal late-game spike, so skip it if you want depth or variety.

Great for

Newcomers and nostalgic Diablo/FATE fans wanting a relaxed, offline, brain-off dungeon crawl

Main risk

Repetitive floors and enemies, plus a late-game difficulty spike and final boss

What players love

Nostalgic Diablo-like that holds up

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“Torchlight is a wonderful Diablo 1 alternate with the similar ARPG gameplay with 3 classes to choose from.”
Steam review · 14.4 h played ↗

“Torchlight definitely shows its age, but at its core it's still quite fun to play.”
Steam review · 146.2 h played ↗

Simple, addictive loot-and-kill loop

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“The gameplay loop is simple in the best way possible: go deeper, loot more, improve your build, summon more chaos, repeat.”
Steam review · 32.2 h played ↗

“It’s simple but fun, and that’s really its biggest strength.”
Steam review · 10.3 h played ↗

“The main merit of Torchlight is that it respects your time.”
Steam review · translated · 23 h played ↗

Charming stylized art and music

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“The heavily stylized artstyle makes the game look nice even in 2025, despite the game being so old.”
Steam review · 10.6 h played ↗

“The game still looks good because of its stylized visuals.”
Steam review · 32.2 h played ↗

“Bright, colorful, with good musical accompaniment.”
Steam review · translated · 23 h played ↗

Runs well, cheap, mod-friendly

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“It will run on any modern computer even with just an iGPU and it still looks and runs great.”
Steam review · 22.9 h played ↗

“it is very cheap even without a discount”
Steam review · 100.2 h played ↗

Useful pet that sells loot

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews

“the pet system is superb.”
Steam review · 20.3 h played ↗

“The pet handles selling: you can load it with junk and send it to town to sell it all.”
Steam review · translated · 23 h played ↗

Good entry point to the genre

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews

“Perfect encapsulation of the ARPG game loop. Play this before you try the more complex ones.”
Steam review · 89.4 h played ↗

What players complain about

Repetitive levels and few enemy types

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“Randomly generated dungeons only pull from like 10 assets, gets extremely repetitive”
Steam review · 8 h played ↗

“Padding (the game has 35 levels but actually it's 7 times of 3 to 5 identical levels with the same enemy types”
Steam review · 17.7 h played ↗

“A Diablo-like pretending to give an epic adventure, but really it throws you into an endless underground corridor where everything follows the same pattern.”
Steam review · translated · 13 h played ↗

Shallow skills and boring loot

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“An incredibly shallow experience. Zero depth in stats, skills, items, enemies or mechanics.”
Steam review · 9 h played ↗

“The loot is boring (even on higher floors 90% of the time you just get thrash greys)”
Steam review · 17.5 h played ↗

Brutal late-game spike and final boss

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Worst final boss of any game I've played.”
Steam review · 19.4 h played ↗

“The game forces you to suddenly go grind for hours for the first time to gather enough level and equipment just to beat it and then stop playing the game.”
Steam review · 17.4 h played ↗

“The last 5 levels have a threefold difficulty spike.”
Steam review · translated · 11 h played ↗

Torchlight II is better; this feels obsolete

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Torchlight II improves on the original in every conceivable way.”
Steam review · 10.3 h played ↗

“The quality of life and quality of combat is improved in nearly every way in the sequel.”
Steam review · 32.6 h played ↗

Crashes, startup failures and lost saves

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“it literally crashes on EVERY SINGLE FLOOR.”
Steam review · 41.6 h played ↗

“Dies on Startup. Runs windowed for 3 seconds then crashes, without error message.”
Steam review · 57.8 h played ↗

Clunky controls and no key rebinding

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“Very floaty controls, limited settings, and no rebindings.”
Steam review · 25.3 h played ↗

“Playing the ranged class is real pain! Many times I aim at an enemy and instead of shooting my character runs at it.”
Steam review · translated · 2 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows XP or later

Processorx86-compatible 800MHz processor

Memory512MB

GraphicsDirectX-compatible 3D graphics with at least 64MB of addressable memory (such as an ATI Radeon 7200, NVIDIA GeForce 2, or Intel GMA 950)

Storage400MB

OSWindows XP or later

Processorx86-compatible 800MHz processor

Memory512MB

GraphicsDirectX-compatible 3D graphics with at least 64MB of addressable memory (such as an ATI Radeon 7200, NVIDIA GeForce 2, or Intel GMA 950)

Storage400MB

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