
(It's also been pirated more than 5 million times in China, with Runic shrugging their shoulders and figuring there's No Such Thing as Bad Publicity.) A direct sequel, Torchlight II, was released, and a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game was planned, but abandoned after Runic realized how complicated it would be to create. Torchlight was the launch title for the Mac OS version of Steam, which may be part of why it's managed to sell over a million copiesa lot more than Runic expected. He was lured to Torchlight by the promise of power and risks being overcome by it.

