Torchlight
Worth it · RPG · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 14.2h
- Value
- $0.21/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Adventure awaits in the award-winning Action RPG debut from Runic Games! Explore the randomized depths of this boom town, collect loot, and level up to save Torchlight - and possibly the world.
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 $2.99, set in December 2014. 94 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 78 at list, 83 today.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Torchlight II ($3.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing ($14.99, scores 60).
Critics scored it 83. Players sit 8 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On a 14.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 568 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 361 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 14.2 hours. Doing everything runs 50, 3.5 times as long.
The drop-off
72% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 14.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
40 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Torchlight scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/41500/torchlightThe 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 Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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