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Striving for Light

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Striving for Light

Blending deep Action RPG buildcrafting with roguelite action, Striving for Light lets you shape and customize an infinite skilltree. Hunt for powerful loot, craft and upgrade weapons to legendary power, slay hordes of enemies and challenging bosses in ever-changing dark worlds.

Early Access Action RPG Hack and Slash Action Roguelike Rogue-lite
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82.7% positive
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Blending the deep buildcrafting of Action-RPGs like Path of Exile and Diablo with the fast-paced action of roguelite like Hades, Striving for Light is an action RPG where you expand and shape a unique infinite skilltree. Battle through dark, ever-changing worlds, collect powerful loot, craft and upgrade weapons to legendary power, and unlock new characters, skills, and weapons as you strive to conquer the darkness.



  • Dive into a dark, mysterious world filled with danger and a voice-acted story
  • Explore random generated maps with plenty of world events and secrets to uncover
  • Level up, utilise and shape a unique random generated and infinite expanding skilltree
  • Near infinite possibilities of buildcrafting and bring your dreambuilds to life
  • Master 9 character classes each with their own unique specialisation skilltree
  • Hunt for randomised loot, craft and reforge weapons to true legendary power
  • Unlock new skills, weapons, maps and characters
  • Over 13 unique environments each with unique enemies and bosses to explore
  • Endgame systems (Rifts, Mapping System, Pinnacle Bosses, Challenges)
  • Online leaderboards with seasons and private league system
  • Local-Coop mode
  • Normal, Hardcore and Roguelike mode as well as 5 Difficulty Tiers
  • Hand-drawn world and an ~100 minute soundtrack

Skill system

  • Each run gives you a new unique skill tree to explore
  • Combine melee, ranged and more, like pet skills, for nearly infinite builds
  • Dynamic expanding skilltree depending on your skill pathway
  • Additional meta progression skilltree

Shape the infinite Skilltree

  • Collect skillgems and shape your skilltree
  • Reconnect skill pathways
  • Reroll skills, or the entire skilltree and alter the outcome
  • Refund skills and flexible skill deactivation system

Gearing & Crafting

  • Deep itemisation system
  • 77+ unique weapon bases with randomised stats can be upgraded to legendaries and ascended by crafting
  • Over 48+ unique trinkets including powerful legendary trinkets
  • 76+ unique skill nodes
  • 9 characters with unique specialisation skilltrees

Combat system

  • Challenging enemies and boss encounters
  • Active dual combat system with aim & attack (mouse, keys or controller)
  • Dynamically switch between melee and ranged weapons during fights
  • Powerful active abilities like shapeshifting and massive AoE attacks
  • Dual resource system to manage melee and ranged attacks
  • Dodge system to evade enemy attacks

Endgame system

  • Delve deeper into the darkness and face an ever increasing challenge
  • Infinite expanding map progression system
  • Rift Endgame system
  • 5 Difficulty Tiers including Darkness Difficulty for Roguelike Experience
  • Add and alter map modifiers to increase the challenge but also your rewards

Seasons & Leaderboards

  • Seasonal leaderboards for hardcore and softcore mode
  • Earn honour points for each run and climb the seasonal leaderboard
  • Compete in seasonal challenges
  • Leaderboard for pinnacle boss fight rush
  • Rift endgame leaderboards
  • Offline mode

Procedural Generated Worlds

  • Each map layout is procedural generated
  • Ever changing world events like tower defense, arenas, dungeons, trials, and bossfights
  • Wisely choose which maps to play and which world events to engage
  • Hunt for the perfect loot and the ultimate weapons

Leave a Legacy

  • Craft echo weapons that get added to the lootpool for other players to find
  • Empower your echoes, design the visual appearance of your weapons
  • Embed your personal inscription to share your message with other players

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System requirements Windows · Linux

Windows

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7 or higher
  • Processor: 3 Ghz or higher
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX960 or equivalent
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 2000 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Yes

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • Storage: 3000 MB available space

Linux

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Processor: 3 Ghz or higher
  • Memory: 4 MB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX960 or equivalent
  • Storage: 2000 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Yes

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Storage: 3000 MB available space
Game details Languages, features & support
Publisher
Igniting Spark Games
Brazilian rating
10
Steam Germany rating
12
Achievements
208
Controller support
full
Features
Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Stats, Remote Play Together, Family Sharing
Languages
English*, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Polish, Russian, Turkish
*languages with full audio support
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Buy Verdict

Watch — $12.59.

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Value Score

Great Value — 75th percentile.

Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 75th percentile. Priced as Market at $12.59.

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Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 20%
Value Ratio Top 25%

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Time in EA
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Striving for Light worth buying right now?
Watch — $12.59. Decent deal at 30% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.
When does Striving for Light go on sale?
Decent deal at 30% off, but might drop further. Watch for better opportunities.
Is Striving for Light free to play?
Striving for Light costs $12.59 on Steam.
What genre is Striving for Light?
Striving for Light is a Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG game.
Who developed Striving for Light?
Striving for Light was developed by Igniting Spark Games and published by Igniting Spark Games.
What platforms does Striving for Light support?
Available on Steam for Windows, Linux.

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