Striving for Light
Igniting Spark Games · 2025 · Action RPG, Hack and Slash, Action Roguelike, Roguelite, RPG
PC
Mostly Positive75% · 169 📈 Making a comeback 83%
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About Striving for Light
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
DLC & expansions
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Base game + 1 of 1 DLC at today's best prices.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise this ARPG as an addictive and engaging experience that blends elements from Diablo, Path of Exile, and roguelike games into something accessible yet complex. The combat is flashy and fun, with solid class systems, skill trees, and progression mechanics that keep players invested through Hardcore and endless playthroughs. The main criticism is that the variety of skills and items feels limited, with players hoping for more depth in character customization and content options despite the current mod-rolling system.
Gem of a ARPG ! I only played Hardcore so far, and i think this is my fit to make the game more like a Roguelike. THere is a bunch of simmilarities to POE, doing Maps, get Corrupted Maps, and a bunch of Map Mods. Also Rifts from Diablo is here too. I can see myself spending many more Hours here. The only downside i wish it was improved is the ammount of Skills and Items. Yes you can roll different mods on them but there could be more.2 found this helpful
Great game, really addicting and pretty complex in the later stages. If you have craving for some quick ARPG action this is the game!1 found this helpful
Received for free. Thank you devs. Initially i thought i was just playing a normal ARPG until the game presented me with an actually flashy and engaging combat. It has some elements of Diablo and POE with skill trees and everything but more toned down for casuals. Theres also a bit of roguelike sprinkled in between, and it's not like other rogue games that are so bad you only play them out of pity of having another unfinished game. Its not amazing, but its a good game. Theres bosses, classes, everything you know is expected in here. The camera is also a bit more like Hades and the game plays more like a twin stick shooter or something of the kind than a full blown RPG (From what i played) and thats already something unique going for it. If you should play? Yeah. Definitely.1 found this helpful
great game, actually gets quite complex the more you play
very fun
The game is addictive and well executed, can't wait for more deep customization, content and features! A hidden gem!
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