Titan Quest Anniversary Edition

I bought the original on CD way back when and always enjoyed the game and the concept of grinding for weapons and armor.

Titan Quest is better of Diablo for me. Beautiful graphics and variety of situations. If you like action rpg, don't miss this one.

It's an ARPG from 2006. It's since been followed up by Grim Dawn. Diablo 3 and Path Of Exile entirely surpass it. And we have so many other ARPG, loot-and-shoot, and live service games. So there's no point playing this game, at all. Except... it's still fun. Plus points: * Pure ARPG enjoyment. Get that next level up, or find that rare item that gives you the edge you need. There's always just one more small goal for you to keep playing for. * Nice mythological settings; with quests that fit the mythologies. * There's still people playing the multiplayer - and they're very helpful to new characters! * The character build approach works well - there's maybe 10 classes and you choose two of them for each character. And after that, you might still have a choice on the best weapon type to use. Negatives: * Maybe slightly janky controls. Sometimes your character doesn't attack. Sometimes you stop dead while moving. Sometimes your attack does not fire at the angle you intended. * Starting a new character can be a little slow and boring. * The game's not 100% stable. For my experience, once it's launched without freezing it runs OK single player, but multiplayer might crash. Other reviews seem to have a worse experience. * The flip side to the character build system being interesting is that you can build bad characters that you can't fix. Some builds are very obvious (max int or max strength, etc) but some of the more interesting classes mix primary stats and there's no way to deduce from the start of the game what stat(s) to focus on. I've never found this "learning experience" of being able to fail character builds in ARPG games enjoyable or interesting.

I would've give it 5 starts, but it so happened that I played Grim Dawn first. As GD uses an improved version of the TQ engine, both games look and feel quite similarly. But without some of the polish and quality of life additions of GD, TQ feels somewhat rough and unfinished. Still, it is a very decent game. The only thing that bugs me is the inventory dimensions. Many item combinations won't fit its height of 5 slots leaving precious inventory space empty.

Just play this very good Diablo clone, one of the best of its category.