Torchlight: Infinite Season 8, Sandlord, Lets You Develop and Run Floating Cities, and Sees a Darker Thea

Torchlight: Infinite’s upcoming Season 8, “Sandlord” will be out later this week, and will offer some (literal) cloud-based businesses. 

The desert skies, to be specific. Among the new challenges are building wealth and managing Cloud Oases, which are essentially floating cities. The ARPG will feature a different kind of wealth this season, as you develop and run your own Cloud Oasis...as a Sandlord. 

The season will introduce new forms of economic gameplay and strategy, things like resource training and optimizing production and even recruiting workers to populate the commercial districts in your floating city.

The update will also feature new and updated features. Overhauls to Deep Space add five new larger, high difficulty stages and a new Probe mechanic, which lets you decide how much risk you want to take for greater difficulty, and greater reward. The new Blending System offers additional deeper customization. Blend Hero traits, talent nodes, and affixes and craft them onto belts.

Returning in the season is Thea, who now has a new trait: Desecration, a scaling curse that can intensify damage and form the basis of a strong damage over time build.

Sandlord will launch on April 17th at 7pm PDT, along with the second anniversary event, Sands of Fortune. There will be a $250k real prize pool for Gold Rush.