Oh happy days! It’s always nice to see an indie game beak out from it’s digitally distributed shackles and adorn the much more comfortable shackles of a box and shelf. Seriously though, it would appear our little indie action RPG is set to launch itself onto store shelves in early January where it will be competing with… Diablo 2. I can’t believe stores are still selling that game!

For those that don’t yet know, Torchlight is a brilliant game in the same vein as Diablo so fans of the series need not look elsewhere to get their fix in before the third iteration of Diablo launches a gajillion years from now. You can even read our own review of it!

Anyways, the retail release comes courtesy of  Encore Software and the retail price will be no larger than the digitally distributed price of 19.99. So it really all just depends on if you want a box or not. Personally, I can’t remember the last time I actually bought a boxed PC game, but everybody has a preference I suppose.

Look for it on January 5th.

[via BusinessWire]