Another week, another batch of glorious discounts on already fine priced indie titles. Maybe not as much depth as prior editions but we’re certainly not short on deep discounts on solid to great indies.

Caffeine Monster is amazing and is running a ‘pay what you want’ sale for its title Smiley’s Shooty Adventure. It deserved its own posting so feel free to check out the full details here. The rest of the web’s offerings:

Sales

Both Torchlight and Altitude are 50% off on Direct2Drive’s third week of its Spring Sale promotion. Torchlight has been priced lower but at $10 it’s still a steal if you for some reason haven’t picked it up yet. The multiplayer arcade fun of Altitude at only $5 should have more than a few parting with their Lincolns. Sale ends Monday when hopefully some new Indie’s pop-up for Week 4.

The Mac version of Max and the Magic Marker is 50% off on GamersGate taking it down to just $10. Any Mac’ers looking for more info on the game should check out Geoff’s review.

Pre-Order Discounts

Frictional Games, developer of the Penumbra series, has listed its upcoming first person survival horror title Amnesia: The Dark Descent on GamersGate with a nice 20% discount on the $20 title for those who pre-order before its release on…WOW AUGUST 15, so this deal will apparently be around all summer I guess. It applies to both the PC and Mac versions.

GamersGate is also offering a 10% discount for those who purchase Alawar’s Hamlet before it’s release, which apparently doesn’t arrive via the distributor until May 12.

Launch Discounts

DnS Development’s side-scrolling action title Booster Trooper has launched on Steam with a 10% discount off the $10 standard. We haven’t touched on the game here, and honestly I’ve never heard of it before but it has a very nice look to it and is at first look reminiscent of Bionic Commando Rearmed. The Steam page linked above also offers a discounted four-pack at $30 standard that also carries the 10% discount.

Gaijin Entertainment’s Wings of Prey expansion ‘Wings of the Luftwaffe’ ($15) launch on GamersGate is celebrated with a 20% discount.

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Did you know we are running a kickass forum contest where you could win a copy of Machinarium, Shattered Horizon, or Aaaaa! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity?

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The $5 Torchlight sale had us in such a tizzy earlier that we forgot to post what else is going on this weekend in discountville. Just a reminder that Runic’s award-winning RPG is 75% off until Sunday, March 28 on Steam, GamersGate and Direct2Drive, so pick your poison.

If Torchlight is already in your repertoire, or you’re still looking for more check out these indie discounts; sales go through Sunday unless otherwise noted. Also if you’re a developer or you know one who is running a personal site sale for its game (or content for the game) email us so we can add to the list:

Hacker Evolution – Untold now includes the free Flight Zero add-on and to celebrate Impulse has slashed the $25 title in half down to just $12.50.

A trio of RailWorks add-ons are on sale on Steam, the CN WideNose Pack DLC ($13) is $10, the Norfolk Southern SD40-2 HighNose DLC ($13) wears the same $3 discount. The 0-4-0ST Saddle Tank Locomotive DLC ($13) is currently just $9. These discounts have been up for a while and appear to be ongoing.

Tale of Tales’ horror adventure game The Path is 50% off on Direct2Drive, taking the title down to $5, Arsen has the scoop on some other discounts offerings from the developer as well.

Mana Bomb itself has given its tower defense strategy title Colony Defense a 50% off discount, available now for $5.

Widely considered a spiritual successor to Diablo, the critically acclaimed action RPG Torchlight is 75% off as part of Steam’s Weekend Deal.

Runic’s title has been discounted down to $5, taking $15 off the standard price. If you’ve yet to purchase the game, this really must be what you’ve been waiting for.

The deal extends to other distributors as well including GamersGate and D2D, with the latter going an extra day with the sale through Monday, March 29.

One of the most popular and arguably best action-RPGs of 2009 is soon making its way over to Australia thanks to publisher Mindscape. Torchlight, Runic Games’ RPG masterpiece, has been slated for an April 2010 release. The specific date has not been set, but details have emerged indicating that the retail version of Torchlight will contain new features that the downloadable version did not have. Buyers of the Australian retail version will receive the ferret as an exclusive bonus pet as well as a full DVD editor “allowing players to create their own content.”

Torchlight should be available at all retailers and software outlets throughout Australia for $29.95. If you’d like to see some more info, check out the full press release below.

Sydney, Australia, 24 March 2010 – Mindscape Asia Pacific Pty Ltd, has today announced that it has been appointed the official Australian retail distributor for the highly acclaimed RPG title Torchlight.

ABOUT MINDSCAPE (www.mindscape.com.au)
Mindscape develops, publishes and distributes games, productivity and reference software on the PC, Mac, DS, Wii, PSP, PS3, Xbox and online platforms. The company’s rich portfolio of award-winning products include Broderbund, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Endemol, Hoyle Games, IMSI, Konami, Legacy Interactive, Myhorseclub, Nancy Drew, Nuance, The Learning Company, Punch, Playfirst, PopCap, Thomas & Friends and Roxio. Mindscape is a publicly listed company on the Paris Stock Market – Alternext since December 2007.

[Source: GamesPress]

Austrian publisher JoWooD Entertainment revealed on the 4th of February that Runic Games’ successful action-RPG Torchlight–which garnered massive appreciation from indie fans and critics alike–will be hitting stores in Europe on March 23rd. The game will be released in Europe–but not in France and Benelux–and also come out in Russia and the former CIS. It will be priced at 19,99€.

“JoWooD Entertainment will utilize its highly effective distribution network to optimally position the game in stores all over Europe (excluding France and Benelux). The enormous amount of publicity this title has generated in the media so far, as well as the product’s indubitable top quality, makes us certain that this title has huge potential. We are enthusiastic to be able to cooperate with Runic Games on this project and are looking forward to a highly successful release.”

- Albert Seidl, CEO of JoWooD Group

Way to go, Runic!

Runic Games has released a new update for its RPG Torchlight, more specifically the TorchED editor.

The patch brings several additions and improvements to the editor including the ability to sort skills and quests by name, along with a slew of bug and other miscellaneous fixes.

The file is available now for Steam users by restarting the client, and for everyone else directly from Runic’s forums. From the notes:

Torchlight, for today only, has been reduced to the tiny, tiny price of just $4.99 as part of Steam’s annual Holiday mega sale. I can’t tell you how good of a deal this is. The game was an absolute steal when it was $19.99 seeing as how much awesome Diablo gameplay it gives you, but at $4.99 there should be no reason why you don’t own this game already.

For those of you who are looking for a bit more information about the game, check out our own glowing review of it.

Also, in case you were wonder, the game was the runner-up in our “Editor’s Choice” awards for 2009.

[Buy from Steam]

We’ve already pointed out that Torchlight has been given a 50% off sale on Steam, but if you’re the kind of person who has to have a reason for everything we have you covered as the discount celebrates a new update to the dungeon crawler.

This particular update isn’t your run of the mill change log fodder though, Runic’s action RPG gains Steam Cloud support and 67 achievements with the patch. For those unfamiliar with Cloud, it allows you to save characters and games and access them on any computer with your Steam account.

So there you go, oh and Torchlight is only $10 through the weekend so get on that too.

This might be cliche, but you’d have to be living under a rock if you haven’t heard of Torchlight yet. Runic Games has created an RPG that is on the list of countless websites as not only one of the best indie games but one of the best in general of 2009. With an abundance of appraisal the title currently reigns supreme and its popularity is justified with excellent gameplay. Even our own Geoff Gibson thought of the game as amazing.

Here’s the awesome news: you can get it right now on Steam for 50% off. That means that the game has gone down from its regular $19.99 price tag to $9.99 and by the looks of it, this is an offer you will regret passing up! Feel free to download the demo and give it a shot, but all I have been hearing about this title is that it is addictive and offers a top-notch level of enjoyment.

So get on it right here!

Direct2Drive is doing a ‘twitter exclusive’ sale on Runic Games’ excellent action RPG Torchlight, taking 25% off the game through tomorrow, November 22. Just enter the code 5OFFTORCH at checkout and you’ll get, you guessed it, $5 off Torch.

The gameplay really takes the Diablo style to another level, and with the title you get the TorchED editor which lets you customize practically everything you see. It’s a real great game, well worth the standard $20–let alone only $15.

If you need further convincing, check out Geoff’s review.