Torchlight blazes past 1 million sales

By Robert Purchese Published 7 July, 2011

Not bad for Runic's first attempt.

Torchlight has broken one million sales combined across PC, Mac and Xbox Live Arcade.

Runic Games released Torchlight on PC in October 2009, and on Xbox Live Arcade in March 2011.

It was the first game from the studio that formed out of Hellgate developer Flagship's ashes.

Torchlight is an action role-playing game that plays like Diablo and looks like Warcraft. Sprinkle on a bit of madness and the resulting experience is one that Eurogamer heartily recommends.

Wrote Alec Meer in his Torchlight review: "Even though there is nothing new or truly unique about Torchlight, nothing at all, that it so confidently and prettily takes the fight to Blizzard is an enormous compliment about how well put-together this is." 8/10.

This year, Torchlight II arrives. The sequel brings more moddability, more customisable characters, a new user interface and, crucially, multiplayer.

A proposed July release date for Torchlight II seems to have fallen by the wayside, with the game now hovering in "2011".

You can buy Torchlight for £6.50 on Steam at the moment. Gold Xbox Live members can snap the game up for a discounted 800 Microsoft Points (£6.80).

The first 15 minutes of Torchlight on XBLA.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

You may also like...

Comments (26) Latest comment 11 months ago

Comments for this article are now closed, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!

  • yoomazir #1 11 months ago

    Well deserved, can't wait for the sequel to come out on XBLA.
    Edited by yoomazir at 07/07/11 @ 10:17

  • Eldritch #2 11 months ago

    Quite surprised they didn't sell considerably more since it's such a great game!

  • Eraysor #3 11 months ago

    I actually thought the XBLA version was a lot better than the PC one (though I still bought both!)

  • StolenGlory #4 11 months ago

    Every sale completely deserved.

  • HiddenPooh #5 11 months ago

    It was available for just £2.57 the other day as part of the Steam Summer Sale. Picked it up and loving it.

  • TheLittlestHobo #6 11 months ago

    It was in the steam summer sale a few days back, I picked it up for £2.59 \o/

  • Wheatley #7 11 months ago

    I bought it in the Steam summer sale a week ago for £3.01

  • Lankysi #8 11 months ago

    Absolutely love this game and well done to Runic Games for this great result.

    Can't wait for 2 with its MP capabilities, have a number of people I hope to play with

    Only downside has been trying to get the last achievement on the XB version, achieve max reputation. Its been a real grind and has got rather repetitive..........but that's the only negative of what has been a great game up to there

  • Yuroko #9 11 months ago

    MP will make this game perfect. The amount of hours my brother and I put into coop Baulders Gate on the GameCube made the lack of MP in Torchlight tough to swallow. Still brilliant but MP increases the fun of these games ten fold.

  • Ryboy #10 11 months ago

    Cracking game.

  • Tryhard #11 11 months ago

    Congrats,It was great fun and look forward to Totchlight II.

  • Skooch #12 11 months ago

    Must just be me but this game left me rather cold. It felt rather button-bashy combat and I spent an hour or so going through the mines at the start but the gameplay was pretty repetitive and it just didn't draw me in. Haven't gone back to it since.

  • GamesConnoisseur #13 11 months ago

    Congrats too and well deserving, looking forward to the sequel on XBLA, and Torchlight destroys the far inferior D&D Daggerdale.

  • itsfuzzy #14 11 months ago

    I really liked this game. It needed online co op though, and the weapons looting and rarity colour index kind of reminded me of Borderlands oddly enough. And like most people ive a pain in my butt getting the last achievement, all in all very little to moan about with this game

  • TRUTH #15 11 months ago

    I preferred Sacred to Torchlight - better varied graphics, much larger open world, more tactics; esp the further you get into the game, more varied enemies and all in all better atmosphere.

  • Daeltaja #16 11 months ago

    Bought it from Steam ages ago and got bored with it fairly quick. I love a good dungeon crawl and loot'em'up, but this one didn't click with me for some reason.. TLII looks great though, very much interested in the co-op.

  • Vortex808 #17 11 months ago

    Must remember to buy this while it's on sale.

  • Toothball #18 11 months ago

    I bought it a few Steam sales back. Haven't got round to installing it yet, but I keep thinking that I should.

  • UncleLou #19 11 months ago

    A proposed July release date for Torchlight II seems to have fallen by the wayside, with the game now hovering in "2011".

    Yeah, that's a shame. I was on their homepage a few week ago, and there's so little info about T2 that the July date already seemed extremely unlikely. :-/

  • icelt #20 11 months ago

    Just picked up this game as well, an excellent title. As long as you know going in that it plays exactly like Diablo with some tweaks you should have a grand time.

  • obscured021 #21 11 months ago

    only started playing last week, but its made my work day fly, almost got it finished so role on part 2

  • icelt #22 11 months ago

    Also this partial quote from the CEO really helps make me a fan of Runic Games as well:
    [link url=http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/09/e3-2011-torchlight-pirated-over-5-million-times-in-china-runic-ceo-thats-fine-with-us/
    ]http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/09/e3-201...[/link]

    "You're fighting against an immovable force by complaining and being paranoid about and all that. We figure if we're just nice to our customers, charge a low price for our game to begin with, don't over-burden them with crazy DRM, and customers will be nice to us too. And so far, they have been."

    "We got a lot of letters from people saying 'Hey, I pirated your game, but it was really cool, so I bought it.' Y'know, we're cool with that, we're not as concerned about that sort of thing as other companies, especially if it makes our honest players inconvenienced. We assume that everyone is an honest player, and we want to make their experience as cool as possible."

  • stryker1121 #23 11 months ago

    Been playing the last couple of weeks and really enjoying it. Haven't played a lot dungeon crawlers so this is fresh for me. Hope the sequel comes out sooner than later..instant download, that.

  • metalangel #24 11 months ago

    The text was unreadably tiny on my TV :(

  • 32768Colours #25 11 months ago

    This year, Torchlight II arrives. The sequel brings more moddability, more customisable characters, a new user interface and, crucially, multiplayer.

    Why is the inclusion of multiplayer always seen as such a major issue for journalists? I like playing with friends on the same console but online just leaves me cold.

    I'm definitely more excited by the prospect of the character customisation than having some other bugger tagging along, stealing all my precious loot!

  • EmiliasHorse #26 11 months ago

    I have it on PC and XBLA and love both equally.