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Torchlight sales surpass 500,000 units

by Griffin McElroy on May 18th 2010 7:20PM

Gamasutra reports that in the weeks preceding its launch on the shiny new Steam for Mac client, Runic Games' top-down RPG Torchlight hit a pretty substantial milestone. Since its launch last October the game, which typically sells for $20, has been purchased over 500,000 times.

We imagine Perfect World, the game's publishing partner that recently purchased a majority stake in Runic, is pleased as punch about reaching the sales milestone. You should be, too -- in honor of hitting the half-million mark, and in celebration of the game's launch on Mac, you can grab Torchlight on Steam for $10 for a limited time.

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Tags: industry, mac, perfect-world-entertainment, rpg, runic-games, sales, steam, torchlight

Reader Comments (37)

Wonders how many were $5 sale purchases, like mine was. Great game :)

Still $2,500,000. I wouldn't be complaining.

I bought it twice on steam. One for me back in December and one for my brother months later when it was $5 again. Highly recommended title.

Post mac rollout purchases are now up to 500,002.

lol

WAS 9.99. It is back up to 19.99.

I'd get it, if it was $5.

It has been $5 at least a couple of times in the past. It will be again I'm sure

Sadly that was before I was a Steam user.* :(

*Forgot my name and pass for it, till now - when I heard Portal was free.

I got it in a half off ($9.99) sale on Steam, IIRC. IMHO that game is EASILY worth $20. I've paid $60 for worse (facepalm).

I can't wait for the Torchlight MMO.

Anyone else?

*raises hand*
WOO! GO RUNIC!

Not me. I was hoping for more of a diablo 2-esque co-op add-on for torchlight not another montonous MMO

its no longer 10$ i was gona buy it but its back at 20$ which im good on

well wait for another 5 dollar sale, seems to happen pretty often.

i'm glad people are enjoying it. word of mouth really helped i bet

D2D still has it for $10 i believe.

I'm a little surprised it hasn't sold more than that, with all the $5 sales. I've gotta say, I just stopped playing the game after finishing the story because I am not going to grind for the sake of grinding in a single player game - but for $5, it was decently worth it.

That's actually a really great sales figure for an independent game, that had little traditional advertising and was available digitally only for the first several months of it's life.

There are plenty of top tier retail games that fail to sell a half million copies.

Is there a good place to keep track of Steam sales? I'm new to Steam with my macbook air (not going to be able to run a ton of stuff), but I'm very interested in Torchlight for instance.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/tags.php?tag=steam

Ha, I should've known, seeing as I'm a CAG member and all.

You dropped probably 1500 to 2000 on that laptop and it can't run most games? Whaaaat? What kind of hardware are they stickin in there? a 512 mb video card and a quad processor aren't that much these days.

Ha, it's integrated graphics because it's super thin. But at least they're from nVidia and not the Intel GMA crap.

http://tinydragonapps.com/steam/

The game is really good, tho a little more repetitive than Diablo 2 or Titan Quest. Its a great game for sure, but games like Titan Quest and Dungeon Siege 2 are better. Especially since Titan Quest Gold is on Steam for $14.99 (in aus anyway, might be cheaper elsewhere). Titan quest is a phenominal game and better than Diablo 2 in my opinion, with much more gameplay and really good graphics. The whole game is awesome from start to finish, i can't talk it up enough. If you liked Diablo 2 and Torchlight but you don't own Titan Quest Gold, then shame on you!

And 5 million pirated copies sold (?)

Woo, I am 1 of 500,000! Full price too.. unfortunately.

Game deserves every sale and more, god I love Torchlight. Congrats Runic.

I'm unable to run it on my crappy laptop so I'm still hoping for that console release that was talked about ages ago. :o

I can run it on my crappy laptop, maybe there's an error on yours when it installed

Limited Time = Until last Monday.

I've thought about this some more.

Maybe Griffin just got the "Confirm your Joystiq Article Post" email, and it's been in the moderation queue for a week.

Sonofa-

he's right.

I rarely ever buy PC games but this one really kicks ass. Not only is it fun, but it's the only game I own that I can play at the highest specs. I bought this game at Wal-Mart for $19.99. I think this game is waaaaaaaaay better than Diablo 2.

I'd agree except, the items were incredibly uncreative. just put the word epic in front of everything.

With mods, the monsters had some cool elemental and spell area effects but playing this vanilla, the unique monsters lacked the satisfaction diablo 2's has.

Extremely lame to have finished the game at level 35. Sure you can keep playing, but it is the exact same areas and monsters, just over and over and over. When there are only two dungeons, this is what killed it for me and why i stopped playing. diablo 2 had the online element which made things very competitive and 5 acts = lots of variety and monsters.

What i did love was the combat and everything else. Well, except identifying scrolls. Sure, its classic but it is also pointless busy work. Fairly sure by the time i stopped, my character was just on an IV drip with potions, stole enough mana to never have to worry about that.

Had to uninstall because it was so addictive!

glad i got it back when it was on sale for $5.

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