Turns out early access was just the MP portion, with single player offline portion coming out later. Servers predictably exploded, people couldn't play, cue bad reviews.Damn, mixed reviews for Torchlight III. Turns out that it's online only, what a bummer.
It was sitting at mostly negative when I checked, so I guess some of the server issues have subsided a bit if it's back at mixed. I'll keep an eye out for the future. I don't want to be Wolcen'd again.