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One of the older ports from a Humble Bundle can now be purchased for people who missed out. The action RPG Torchlight finally has a DRM free build on Humble Store.

Sadly, it seems the Steam key is still listed as Windows/Mac without a Linux version, but it's still nice to be able to get it DRM free if you missed out. Hopefully one day the Linux version will find its way onto Steam too.

About the game (From the store)
Behold Torchlight, the award winning Action RPG franchise developed by Runic Games! A veteran team composed of the designers and leads of projects like Diablo, Diablo II, Mythos, and Fate, Runic has spent many years honing and evolving this unique style of gameplay.

The adventure is set in the mining settlement of Torchlight, a boomtown founded on the discovery of rich veins of Ember - a rare and mysterious ore with the power to enchant or corrupt all that it contacts. This corruptive power may have dire consequences however, and players set out into the nearby mountains and depths below to discover the full extent of Ember’s influence on the civilizations that have come before.

Will you be picking up a copy?

Thanks FutureSuture. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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11 comments

seven Apr 22, 2016
did they fix the faces of the chars?, the faces were missing in character select screen
Skiski Apr 22, 2016
The build available in my humble library is still from 2013. The windows and Mac versions don't have any date attached to them, so I don't know if they are newer build.

And it's not in my steam list of linux games. So I don't think they have changed anything to the linux version.
Magamo Apr 22, 2016
did they fix the faces of the chars?, the faces were missing in character select screen
This is definitely fixed in the version I get from Humble now.
Nel Apr 22, 2016
did they fix the faces of the chars?, the faces were missing in character select screen
This has been fixed since 2013.
whizse Apr 22, 2016
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If it is the same build, mouse support is probably broken out of the box for most users, (see end of thread here: http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=33360&start=60#p474739 )
ainumortis Apr 22, 2016
Dont work, anymore, its the same build 2013, im just buy this in humble bundle, im write about this in my spanish blog, humble bundle not support this game, and runic games dont care Linux client, but they sold like Linux Compatible, when this not work yet.

http://www.misjuegosenlinux.com/2016/04/torchlight-y-el-cliente-de-linux.html


Last edited by ainumortis on 22 April 2016 at 8:56 pm UTC
Nel Apr 22, 2016
Yup, seems broken. The installer (Nixstaller) checks for dependancies before extracting libs, and if libSDL2 is already installed in your system, it will skip extracting it

Here is a workaround to get the proper version of libSDL2 packaged in the installer.

./Torchlight-2013-05-21.sh --noexec --keep --target ~/torchlight-tmp
tar --strip-components 2 -xJOf ~/torchlight-tmp/subarch deps/SDL2/SDL2_files_linux_x86_64 | tar --strip-components 1 -xJf -


Then, move libSDL2-2.0.so.0 into the /lib64 directory of your torchlight installation.

You can now delete /torchlight-tmp directory in your home folder.
ainumortis Apr 22, 2016
I need to try That, thanks for share.

edit: its work, now i can click again. thanks.


Last edited by ainumortis on 23 April 2016 at 10:49 pm UTC
m2mg2 Apr 22, 2016
Bought it. Can verify Nel's fix works. You must change directory into the torchlight-tmp dir from command 1 before executing command 2
lucifertdark Apr 23, 2016
It would be nice if they finally added it to steam as well, only been waiting since 2013 for it to show up, heck even the second one is already on steam.
crt0mega Apr 25, 2016
Is there a way to get the Linux binaries separately? I've bought Torchlight several years ago in a retail store and don't like the idea of buying it again from Humble (would do so if there's no other way, but... paying twice for a game feels weird).
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