Path of Exile 2013

About this game

An exile washes up on Wraeclast, a ruined continent of old gods, and survival starts with hitting bloated cadavers with driftwood until they burst. This 2013 action role playing game came to the PC first and consoles later. Players of Diablo II in New Zealand built it as its spiritual successor. Every class starts somewhere on one passive tree of 2,268 nodes and walks it in its own direction, and skills are gems socketed into gear and shaped by linked support gems, so a build is something you design. There is no gold: trade runs on orbs that each do something to an item, which keeps the economy from inflating. A new league every three months tries a mechanic for a season. It is free, selling cosmetics and stash tabs, and a stream of free expansions has kept changing it. Path of Exile 2 went into early access in December 2024 as a game of its own.