Torchlight III
Skip · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $5.99.
- Length
- 15.7h
- Value
- $0.38/hr
- Reviews
- 47% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD Series Card or Higher, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
In Torchlight III, Novastraia is again under threat of invasion and it’s up to you to defend against the Netherim and its allies. Gather your wits and brave the frontier to find fame, glory, and new adventures!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in November 2024. It has been discounted 49 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $5.99 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math Torchlight II ($3.99, scores 88) and The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II ($14.99, scores 23) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 29 percent of the 2,121 reviews written there were positive, against 47 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 15.7 hours. Doing everything runs 40, 2.6 times as long.
The drop-off
96% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
44 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Finished T2 recently as im going through the series and decided to see the next game in the line.. Reading the reviews i was skeptical as people praise T1 highly while it was mediocre compared to its competition at the time.. Turdlight 3 is a complete disgrace to the series, and should never been a mainline game for the series The more i played, the more i got disgusted by it and you can see that i couldnt play for...
BEWARE: multiplayer is broken. The game is semi-abandonware, so it's functionally singleplayer-only. Meh. Torchlight III is a serviceable but forgettable Diablo -like. The story is negligible, which would be fine except the campaign is incredibly easy: none of the enemies require any more strategy then holding down the shoot button while dodging occasionally. Even the bosses add only some trivial new feature like...
Overall, this game is very enjoyable. However, there's one issue that consistently breaks immersion for me: combat impact feels delayed. When you attack anything with a melee weapon - enemies, crates, structures, whatever - there's a noticeable lag of a second or two between the swing and the actual hit registering. It removes that satisfying "feeling of impact" you'd expect from melee combat, and it makes every...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Torchlight III scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1030210/torchlight-iiiThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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