Torchlight II
| Torchlight II | |
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Cover art with the game's four classes (clockwise from top: Embermage, Berserker, Outlander, and Engineer).
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| Developer(s) | Runic Games |
| Publisher(s) | Runic Games |
| Distributor(s) |
Valve Corporation Perfect World Runic Games |
| Designer(s) | Travis Baldree |
| Composer(s) | Matt Uelmen |
| Series | Torchlight |
| Engine | OGRE |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux |
| Release |
Microsoft Windows
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| Genre(s) | Action role-playing, hack and slash |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 88.48% |
| Metacritic | 88/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Edge | 8/10 |
| Eurogamer | 9/10 |
| G4 | 4.5/5 |
| Game Informer | 9.25/10 |
| GameSpot | 8.5/10 |
| GameSpy |  |
| GamesRadar |  |
| GameTrailers | 8.5/10 |
| IGN | 9.1/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | 88/100 |
Torchlight II is an action role-playing game developed by Runic Games, released for Microsoft Windows on September 20, 2012. It is the sequel to Runic's 2009 ARPG, Torchlight, and features peer-to-peer multiplayer support and extended modding capabilities. The game was released for OS X on February 2, 2015, and for Linux on March 4, 2015. Torchlight II takes place in a fantasy world where the player controls the hero in the story who intends to banish the evil from the world.
Like the original Torchlight, Torchlight II features randomly generated dungeons for the player to explore, and numerous types of monsters to fight for experience and loot. Torchlight II maintains the same basic gameplay as its predecessor, but features overland areas with multiple hub towns, and a longer campaign. Other new features include time of day cycles, weather effects, and a redesigned user interface. Also unlike the first game, some weapons and armor can only be used by certain classes, as opposed to all of them. Players are able to customize character appearance with choice of sex, face, hair style and hair color. Additionally, several elements from the first game return, such as pets (but now with expanded options and basic customization available) and fishing. A retirement system was originally planned, similar or identical to the one in the first game, but was replaced with the current New Game Plus mode.
The game features four playable character classes. Each class has 3 skill trees to choose from which enable customization within each class. The three classes from the original Torchlight do not return as playable characters, and are instead presented in the game world as NPCs.
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