Torchlight: Infinite

Role-playing (RPG)Hack and slash/Beat 'em upAdventure

Overview

Torchlight: Infinite is an action role-playing game and the fourth game in the Torchlight series. It is developed and published by Chinese company XD Inc. for Android, iOS, and Windows. These versions are all cross-platform.

Torchlight: Infinite is a dungeon crawler where the player controls a character in a high fantasy world, much like previous installments in the Torchlight series. From an isometric, top-down view, the player controls their character to move about the game's world, using hack and slash with a variety of weapons, magic spells, and skills to fight monsters, collect new items and treasure, and sell and buy items to improve their character's abilities. A focus of these various progression systems is to create more customization options for players.

Torchlight: Infinite was developed with the Unreal Engine 4 game engine, and this has led to some difficulties as much of the development team at XD Games was unfamiliar with the platform prior to work on this title.

Torchlight: Infinite entered its first phase of closed beta on January 18, 2022, exclusively on mobile platforms. The Windows version was announced on July 23, 2022, and was available during the game's final closed beta, which began on September 5, 2022.

The game was received with mixed reviews by critics. It has drawn varying comparisons with similar mobile games, especially Diablo Immortal and Path of Exile. One Torchlight fan and critic was unimpressed at launch, saying "Torchlight Infinite is not Torchlight." Similar concessions were made even in more positive reviews, which focused on Torchlight Infinite's successful mechanics rather than franchise consistency.