Torchlight Infinite Review: Is It Really a Torchlight Game?

In this true loot-based ARPG, you can join the Torchlight heroes on their quest to defeat the darkness and bring light back to the land of Leptis. Build your own heroes with the most building options, grind for loot, and fight bosses with a lot of flair.

It sounds and has the Torchlight in the title of the game. Is it a Torchlight-like game though? Let’s review it and see its overall rating of it.

Review – Torchlight Infinite

Torchlight Infinite is the newest and latest game in the series of Torchlight. It is a game that is made by the same developers and it is criticized heavily by a lot of players and websites. As you might know, a lot of these people just hop on the hate train and hate on it without even having played it. We shall review it thoroughly and see all the Pros and Cons for it.

Pros

Let’s start off on the right foot. What is the good side of Torchlight Infinite?

Animations

No matter what you will be doing, you will be seeing the animations over and over again. Well, the devs actually did a very good job for them. Although you will be casting and using skills, the animations will give you the rewarding feeling of powerful ability.

When fighting enemies you will feel as though your abilities have an impact on the slashes and strikes that you will deal with. Also, the skills that you will be using in the battles and fights are well-made and enjoyable to watch.

Overall, we must say that the Animations are pretty spot on, and if not, maybe the best in the Torchlight Series so far.

Visuals

The visuals are very good. In my personal experience, I personally like how the game looks and feels like. You will feel as though you are playing a Torchlight game. You will get the normal sceneries that you expect from a Trochligt game which are done fantastically.

The enemies that you will be tackling also feel very real and made very good. Their designs are somewhat realistic and original and fit very well with the Torchlight Universe.

Leveling Up

The leveling up in Torchlight Infinite is made very well. You will be getting easy to a level 60 and right after you will start to feel the difficulties. This is made so that the beginners can have a way easier time.

Also, it feels very good when veterans use this system. You will be going through the levels and skills faster, and you don’t actually feel that slow and tough process to get what you need or where you need in the beginning stages of the game.

Game Hub & Global Chat & Cross Platform

The good thing that this game has going for it is that you are able to meet all sorts of people. You can chat and interact with different types of people on various platforms all from the main Game Hub.

You will be spending a lot of time here, and really, after a long raid or run, you will come back and be able to share your experience will fellow players. Feels good, until all the players start complaining about the game!

Pay to Win Isn’t All That Bad

I can’t believe that I am putting this inside the Pros. But since there are so many games out there that are absolutely terrible in this aspect, we would have to say that the P2W aspect doesn’t necessarily do all that much in Torchlight infinite.

That being said, there is pay-to-win in the game, but it is nowhere near as bad as in Diablo Immortal. The game doesn’t have PvP, and from the hours I spent playing the different beta versions, I can say that while the shop does give some power for PvE, it’s only about 30–40% stronger.

Cons

Here we go again.

Gameplay

The main gameplay will take place in areas that are too small for PC players to see. It will be like playing Path of Exile zoomed in all the time. Minions will just move off-screen and fight something there, while you only see the head of a probably big monster.

The fights with the bosses are very boring and not fun at all. Some attacks have clear signs, but others don’t. It feels very random especially when dealing with multiple enemies or even worse when fighting bosses.

It really does feel as if it is a Mobile game and that’s all. It doesn’t feel like a PC game.

UI Interface

There are some small problems with the user interface. The inventory doesn’t have mouse-over tooltips and you can’t drag items around to sort or equip them. You have to click and select a piece of gear to look at it, and then you have to click another button to equip it.

For 1h weapons or rings, you have to choose which slot to equip it in, and there’s an auto-sort button that doesn’t really help.

Player Preset

You will not be able to create your own player; instead, you will choose a character from a pool of challenging options. This is a very big minus for me, and I am sure for a lot of the players that remember the Nostalgic feel of Torchlight 2.

Having an already-made player preset, which let’s be honest isn’t original at all, is a downright offensive way to all the players that loved and enjoyed Torchlight in the past.

You won’t get any options on how to create your character other than choosing the options that have been given to you. The characters that you choose too are very edgy and they don’t give that feel of a Torchlight game at all.

You will be using the same generic type of character that you see in all the latest games.

Bugs & Issues

Players aren’t able to even join the game at times. It feels as though it is a rushed development cycle that left many holes in the game. You will be stuck in the loading screen at times without moving anywhere at all.

There are tons of in-game bugs too. You will find out that clipping could happen in games like these. Sometimes enemies that you need to find and kill in order to complete a quest will simply vanish and a whole lot more.

But definitely, the biggest issues are for trying to log in. If you are lucky you will get inside. If you are lucky, you will stay inside the game too. Because it is very common to experience a crash or to get logged out randomly.

Mobile Gaming Menus

Some of the menus are hard to use because they look like mobile games, and you have to use more than one menu to switch between the different skill points you get after each level. I don’t understand how skill nodes are set up either. It takes a long time to read through everything or find something if you don’t know what you’re looking for.

Shop

They have a “store” for cosmetics that has almost nothing to buy. Almost everything can be unlocked with “exclusive” unlocks, either from the season pass or from gachas with limited time.

The current gacha has a skin for Thea that I’m kind of interested in, but it costs like $25 to do 10 pulls and you can only get 1 of 5 items per 10 pulls, with a 0.1% chance of getting a second one if you’re lucky.

This means that skin for that character could cost $125. It looks like there may be a way to get this for free, up to 5 pulls per month, but I don’t think it’s likely that you’ll get enough to get the skins you want while the limited edition banners are up. But it’s just a matter of looks. It sucks because a lot of the players will never actually have even one of these items.

Overall & Rating

Overall, Torchlight Infinite is a pretty fun game that has its issues. But if you remember that it is part of the Torchlight series, well then you say can that it is downright offensive on what they did to it.

Thank you very much for checking out our guide! We hope that we gave you the best overview of the game and gave it a chance with both the Pros and the Cons. Overall, it is a fun game if you didn’t play any other Torchlight games. If you did, well, you might go back to those.

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