Striving for Light (2025)

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.

About This Game
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 possibilites of buildcrafting and bring your dreambuilds to life
Master 8 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 11 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
Hardcore and Softcore mode as well as 5 Difficulty Tiers
Hand-drawn world and an 80+ 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
Collect skillgems and shape your skilltree: Reconnect, reroll, refund.
Additional meta progression skilltree
Gearing & Crafting
Deep itemisation system
72+ unique weapon bases with randomised stats can be upgraded to legendaries and ascended by crafting
Over 40+ unique trinkets including powerful legendary trinkets
70+ unique skill nodes
8 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
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







SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Storage: 3000 MB available space
*Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.