11 Games with a historical setting like Torchlight that you should try

It shares the essentials of what Torchlight does: dark, oppressive atmosphere, procedural generation and melee combat. Both also lean on skill tree progression and an isometric view. The distance is in combat and world — its own ground is open world exploration and tactical combat.

What carries over from Torchlight is magic-based combat, fantasy world and single-player focus. To that it adds an isometric view. Its own ground is turn-based strategy and tactical combat.

It shares the essentials of what Torchlight does: dark, oppressive atmosphere, procedural generation and magic-based combat. To that it adds fantasy world and single-player focus. They part company on game mode: this one brings multiplayer gameplay.

Same family as Torchlight: melee combat, a medieval setting and single-player focus. To that it adds an isometric view. They part company on tone and combat: this one brings strong narrative focus and tactical combat.

What carries over from Torchlight is dark, oppressive atmosphere, ranged combat and fantasy world. Both also lean on single-player focus and an isometric view. The distance is in game mode — its own ground is multiplayer gameplay.

The genre is the same as Torchlight’s, and with it magic-based combat, a medieval setting and single-player focus. The common ground extends to skill tree progression and an isometric view. Where the two diverge is tone and progression: strong narrative focus and tactical combat.

What carries over from Torchlight is magic-based combat, fantasy world and single-player focus. The common ground extends to an isometric view. Where the two diverge is combat: turn-based strategy and a third-person camera.

The thread back to Torchlight runs through dark, oppressive atmosphere, magic-based combat and fantasy world. Both also lean on single-player focus and an isometric view. What it adds of its own: turn-based strategy and tactical combat.

It shares the essentials of what Torchlight does: dark, oppressive atmosphere, magic-based combat and historical setting. To that it adds single-player focus and an isometric view. They part company on combat: this one brings tactical combat.

The genre is the same as Torchlight’s, and with it melee combat, historical setting and single-player focus. To that it adds an isometric view. They part company on combat and setting: this one brings tactical combat and a sci-fi setting.

The genre is the same as Torchlight’s, and with it melee combat, historical setting and single-player focus. The common ground extends to an isometric view. Where the two diverge is combat and setting: tactical combat.