Like the original Torchlight, Torchlight II features randomly generated dungeons for the player to explore, and numerous monsters to fight for experience and loot. An Imperial Camp serves as the player's town. Act I, Wake of the Alchemist, is set in the mountainous Estherian Steppes, and Act II takes the player to a desert known as the Mana Wastes, and Act III takes place in Grunnheim, a haunted forest that contains the ruins of an ancient dwarven civilization. The player character takes on a quest to stop this villain, who is using Ordrak's power to disturb the balance between the world's six elements.Īs the game progresses, the player treks across large geographical areas, corresponding to three 'acts' of the story and an epilogue. Years after the end of the original Torchlight, the Alchemist (a playable character in the first game) becomes corrupted by the Ember Blight coming from the Heart of Ordrak, the evil being who had been the source of the corruption under the town of Torchlight, and then destroys the town. The sequel to 2009's Torchlight, it features peer-to-peer multiplayer support and extended modding capabilities. Torchlight II is a hack and slash action role-playing game developed by Runic Games, released for Windows on September 20, 2012: it was later released for Mac OS and Linux in 2015, and Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4 and Xbox One in 2019.
