Torchlight II is a sprawling, cartoony, loot-driven action RPG originally developed by the now-defunct Runic games. The console version of Torchlight II still features a weird random pile of different clashing text fonts, just like the original! Yay? Nintendo Switch Screenshot taken by Alex Rowe. Some of these issues are fixed up now, but this is still not quite a polished game, and I’m not sure if it’ll ever get there. And the classic “stuck in the geometry” bug that was also prominent in the original was still present. It launched late last year…and although it wasn’t as much of an initial mess as Titan Quest, it still had a number of issues. Now, thanks to the developers at Panic Button, the sequel is finally available on the PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch for 20 bucks. Although the original Torchlight got an excellent console port to the Xbox 360 years ago, Torchlight II was left to sit on a shelf.
If you’re that specific person, and you somehow never played 2012’s Torchlight II, then your ship has finally come in.
Maybe you’re tired of Path of Exile, you’re too impatient to wait for Grim Dawn’s indefinitely delayed console release, and you have long since given up on the many unfulfilled promises that fixes are on the way for Titan Quest’s absurdly broken console versions. Or, you’ve turned your back on Blizzard after their recent controversies and you don’t want to play Diablo III. Perhaps you’re like me, and you’ve grown increasingly frustrated at the long production cycle of whatever the new Torchlight game is. Nintendo Switch Screenshot taken by Alex Rowe.