Torchlight Developer Runic Games Shut Down

"the company’s continued strategy to focus on online games as a service."

Hob looks pretty cool and I would have loved to buy it. Unfortunately, they decided to not support Xbox or Switch. =(

Shame, never played Torchlight but Torchlight 2 was a very good game.

They had no long term focus on maintaining income. I mean Torchlight was great but that was years ago... the studio was heavily based on short term sales and it had nothing after the initial release and failed as a result. The team and its bad choices will not be missed.

God. That shutdown is sickening to hear.

Torchlight 1 and 2 were a fantastic slick fun take on the genre. The best I'd encountered since the original Diablo! (Yes I did grab Torchlight given the Diablo dev. link.)

Buying Hob was a no brainer, but I'm struggling with some of the puzzles. I'm sure there will be a decent walk-through to help by now.

R.I.P.

Didn't they just release a game? Hob? Did it flop?

"focus on online games as a service.""

Oh, this garbage again.

They make great games, and this has been a long time coming. Too many of their core developers moved on or just wanted to do something else. I wished a large publisher would swept them up, but im sure all will bounce on their feet.

Good, not enough bad things can happen to devs that make free to play games if you ask me. I hope none of them find jobs.

Not so perfect world after all

They did nothing with Torchlight 2 so what did they expect to happen?

Really sad news :( I sure will miss this lovely dev team... Now I feel like my body is ready for a Torchlight marathon! ;)

This is why you never sell out to a big publisher, you remain indie and close down if you need to, to avoid being eaten by a greedy shark...[the big publisher being the shark]

OH, I enjoyed the Torchlight games a lot.....and I'm not suggesting Runic were sellouts....

That's how you do it. Buy a game studio, then decide to put your focus elsewhere and disband it. Seems like the Chinese have already got capitalism down perfectly.

Fk perfect world

They had a good run. Torchlight wasn't my bag, but it was widely loved by a lot of people.

Best of luck as they move on. I'm sure they'll find something!

The war on singleplayer gaming continues. This service orientated gaming thing is going to suffer the same fate as the MMO crash. Like MMOs, we only have so much time for these types of games and we will likely settle into playing just a few at a time. Singleplayer games, on the other hand, I feel like I can buy all of them because it's perfectly safe to play them later without worrying about missing special in-game events or sales or the like.

I used to hate indies, but with all these companies closing their dev teams that don't produce microtransaction games as a service titles, I am starting to support indy. Not the traditional low budget indy games, but independent developers without a parent company like CD Projekt RED.

I will not spend a fucking penny on the era of multiplayer only mictrotransaction games. If I have to stick with old games for 20 years and play only 1-2 new games per year, so be it.

Well that bites, always sad to hear gaming studios closing their doors. Heck i'm still sad about Big Huge Games closing and a second Kingdoms of Amalur not getting a chance. Or Lionhead closing and Fable gone. Torchlight and Hob were great games, wasn't expecting this anytime soon.

I loved Torchlight. I figured they were done when they said they were burned out on that kind of game quite awhile ago. It's too bad really because Diablo 3 is garbage and a Torchlight 3 could have been the Diablo 3 many people wanted.