 In March 2014, co-founder Erich Schaefer and Travis Baldree decided to leave Runic and form a new indie studio, Double Damage Games.Max Schaefer left the studio in early 2016; he then founded Echtra Games, which included a number of former Blizzard and Runic developers.In August 2018, Echtra announced "Torchlight Frontiers", a shared world game build on the "Torchlight" IP.