Eternium - like Torchlight but without the cuteness

[melmoth]

If you're at all like me, you've long wished for a game like Torchlight but without all the insipid cuteness.

There seems to finally be one: Eternium

It's still too cartoony and not dark enough for my taste (Path of Exile having just about the perfect grimdark style and art direction for me).. but it's still pretty good despite that.

If you have similar taste, give this game a try... it's free (though pay-to-win, if you want to make the game a lot easier for yourself).

[potterman28wxcv]

I think it's even more cute than TL2 though isn't it? Looking at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCgXe_HYKY

There are bird sounds, the music is cute, even monster sounds are cute. This could very well be a game made for children. TL2 is darker in comparison.

[melmoth]

Originally posted by potterman28wxcv:

I think it's even more cute than TL2 though isn't it? Looking at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCgXe_HYKY

There are bird sounds, the music is cute, even monster sounds are cute. This could very well be a game made for children. TL2 is darker in comparison.

Yes, Torchlight 2 is really the more apt comparison to Eternium.

[Gold♥Shield]

Just play Grim Dawn if you want something darker.

[HiFive]

Sacred Gold and Sacred 2 Gold, the Van Helsing series (or Van Helsing Final Cut), Victor Vran, and Two Worlds: Epic Edition are just some of the alternatives that come to mind.

[lo0mid>]

Lost ark will also be nice I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhIcZupYNw8

[Seferoth]

Eternium is mobile trash. Filled with microtransactions and timers. Avoid at all cost.

[The Yeen Queen]

I think you're operating under a wildly unique definition of "cute"...

[steffire3]

Originally posted by The Dark Tyger:

I think you're operating under a wildly unique definition of "cute"...

It reminds me that Torchlight-2 has blood zombies, creepy bugs, thirsty were-wolves, headless ghosts, parasite hosts, edgy medusa bosses, ember addicts, un-dead soldiers, cannibal witches, nether rituals, burned bone-piles, purged societies, war tribes, dark founders (read Outlander and Embermage Item Lore), angry Berserker Item Lore, expansionist Imperials, and mad healers (read Fallen Alchemist notes). Not very child-friendly on lore or manner.

It's strangely similar to Grim-Dawn on certain topics except less explored and therefore less dark yet only because some of the explanations are buried within Items and uncommon Npc monologues.

And the player is so busy shooting everything that all of this info and visuals are essentially overlooked hence providing a surface impression of "cuteness" however mis-perceived.

[HiFive]

I wouldn't call the TL2 graphics cute. I'd call them humorous. Eternium does seem to have similar graphics and play style. However, from the reviews, it seems it would be hard to progress without partaking in their micro-transaction system. I'd rather pay a flat fee up front, like I did for TL2 and my other games, and not have any micro-transactions.

[potterman28wxcv]

Originally posted by steffire3:

Originally posted by The Dark Tyger:

I think you're operating under a wildly unique definition of "cute"...

It reminds me that Torchlight-2 has blood zombies, creepy bugs, thirsty were-wolves, headless ghosts, parasite hosts, edgy medusa bosses, ember addicts, un-dead soldiers, cannibal witches, nether rituals, burned bone-piles, purged societies, war tribes, dark founders (read Outlander and Embermage Item Lore), angry Berserker Item Lore, expansionist Imperials, and mad healers (read Fallen Alchemist notes). Not very child-friendly on lore or manner.

It's strangely similar to Grim-Dawn on certain topics except less explored and therefore less dark yet only because some of the explanations are buried within Items and uncommon Npc monologues.

And the player is so busy shooting everything that all of that info and visuals are essentially overlooked hence providing a surface impression of "cuteness" however mis-perceived.

Yes, absolutely. TL2 is actually a rather dark game - the artstyle softens the dark part, but if you think about it, there are a lot of deranging things happening in TL2

[lo0mid>]

TL2 has the graphics for hours of playing and in lost ark the berserker will be good and I hope similar to TL2.
TL2 classes in other games is the most fun yeah :)