Torchlight

This is a recreation of Diablo II. The people who developed this game actually developed Diablo for Blizzard before Activision bought blizzard. Conceptually, it plays just like Diablo II. You have a few people giving you quests, a teleporter that sends you to various waypoints, you can add gems to items, and even gamble at certain vendors. You can even transmute items. You have both a character stash and a player stash (which is shared among all your characters; and essentiall give items to other characters that can better use them or a new character.) There are multiple classes with different skill trees. You also have a pet which will reincarnate if it gets killed. Your pet has a inventory and you can use your pet for additional storage, or send him back to town to sell the items you gave him. You will not recognize any spells, items, creatures, or classes from Diablo as they have all changed significantly. However, you will recognized the play style. I have owned torchlight for about 6 months, and it is addicting like DIablo II, but it does have the repitition problems like Diablo as well. (Its fun and you will play a lot, then get bored, then after a while, you will want to play again and again.) This game will run on your screen size no matter the resolution (unlike Diablo II which was limited to 800x600) I own the version bought straight from torchlight's website. I was not able to get it to install properly using wine. However, the game runs flawlessly in a virtual machine under linux.

Better than other Diablo style game.

This game manages to take the Diablo formula, polish it, and somehow turn out a game that lacks any of the fun or personality of the Diablo games. The game plays well. Diablo veterans will feel right at home. But the game is a boring dungeon crawl, the characters are not interesting, and it has no multiplayer. The enemies are easy and provide no real threat to your character, even the bosses. Torchlight 2 is a better game in every respect, and includes multiplayer plus a strong modding community, but that game still lacks the personality and fun of Diablo 2, in my opinion.

Truly awesome, though i don't like how I have to play as a girl (with allot of stuff showing mind you) in order to be a range character, the game is still epic and I can see myself playing this for months to come!

If i remember right it's made by the same team who made diablo one after a few got sacked but in short loot whoring fun