Striving for Light: Survival

I just played a newly released bullet heaven that was mind-numbing and it made me think of the good bullet heavens I've played in the past. I love Striving for Light: Survival, it's crazy to see it still has barely any exposure even after multiple years. The roguelike from the same dev called "Striving for Light" is also amazing, thank you for making great games and updating them despite the little exposure they've gotten. If you ever make another game I will be sure to check it out.

This game is a finished Alpha. It's a great Alpha, thumbs up for the Alpha. As far as a complete ready-for-launch game, thumbs down. This game has no meta currency, which would have added depth. You get to choose 1 melee weapon and 1 ranged weapon (of 24) and 1 class (of 8) and choose some nodes to appear in your node tree. And that's it. * It's really more gated progression than "meta." Go to the screenshot of the character menu. That is THE ENTIRE GAME out of combat. There is no other menu, no other screen, other than choosing the map you want to play. Combat shoves you into an arena which is about 25m x 25m, maybe half a football pitch. This works for some games like Brotato but I'm not sure the arena-style works here. Partly because Brotato's graphics are so clearly defined whereas this game's are much more flat-seeming and there's a lot of overlap in player effects and enemy effects, so the screen is just kind of a random muted-palette mess. PS The node tree is actually random, which I like. But you may not if you want POE-style trees. It's not per-class or fixed, something to tinker with between runs. Each game produces a wildly different tree structure for that one run. …

One of the better Survivor-likes out there, an absolute blast to play. It has a gigantic skill tree reminiscent of Path of Exile's, its an awesome addition to the game. Definitely buy if you are a fan of the genre or just good games.

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Striving for Light: Survival is a charming little bullet hell roguelike with a nice art style, though the animations feel rather stiff. If you can look past that, the game offers plenty of weapons, skills, and combinations to experiment with, along with a supposedly “endless” skill tree reminiscent of Path of Exile. The downside is that it isn’t nearly as endless or diverse as advertised — most choices boil down to either more damage or more critical strike chance, which I personally find uninspired (just as in PoE). Still, it’s an enjoyable game that can easily keep you entertained for dozens of hours if you’re a fan of the genre. 🎮✨ Video: https://youtu.be/JYehf8lTCyY

Can't play co-op both players sharing the keyboard. Can't seem to rebind controller. Solo & co-op mode doesn't seem to make a difference. In co-op mode, player 1 keyboard bindings seem to ignore changes made, only uses default bindings. Similar issue(s) in the other game (Striving for Light).