Striving for Light is a rogue-lite ARPG where you utilise a unique infinite expanding skilltree to fight your way through the darkness, striving for light.


All about exploration


Skill system


Combat system


Weapons & Loot


Story & NPCs


All about exploration

- Dive into a dark, mysterious world full of dangers
- Everything is hand drawn
- Explore a big variety of random generated maps
- Unique soundtracks for each environment
- Level up and utilise a unique random generated and infinite expanding skill tree
- Unlock new skills and weapons
- Endless progression system


Skill system

- Each run gives you a new unique skill tree to explore
- Dynamic expanding skilltree depending on your skill pathway
- Infinite skilltree for infinite progression
- Collect skillgems and shape your skill tree


Combat system

- Dynamically switch between melee and ranged weapons during fights
- Dual resource system to manage melee and ranged attacks
- Challenging enemies and boss encounters
- Dodge enemy attacks


Weapons & Loot

- Collect light shards to unlock weaons and skills
- Hunt for your perfect weapon and skill combination
- Weapons with unique mechanics for various different playstyles
- Loot is hiding in every corner waiting to be uncovered
- Find shards which grant additional skill points


Story & NPCs

- Uncover a dark and mysterious story
- Town hub as a place to return and prepare for the next journey
- NPCs for unlocking new skills and weapons
Patch 0.4.1.2

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With patch 0.4.1.2 the skill spawning system has been completely overhauled and optimized to make batching for multiple equivalent skill spawns possible. This should increase the performance, especially in endgame scenarios, a lot.
With this update also the most crucial memory leaks have been fixed so that you should not reiceive regular crashed on very high dungeon floors. The Skill tree got some performance improvements and the zoom setting is now also set to the value when you left the skill tree.
- Overhauled skill spawning system which enables batching of multiple equivalent skills, this should lead to performance improvements in endgame scenarios.
- Improved skill tree performance
- Skill tree zoom settings is now set to the value when you have left the skill tree.
- Various codebase improvements, which should lead to some degree of improved performance.

- Fixed some crucial memory leaks which lead to crashes on very high dungeon floors.
Thanks for everyone providing helpful feedback, which is what drives the development forward! You are invited to join our discord and participate in the ongoing development of Striving for Light!
Join the official Discord!
[ 2022-05-18 23:30:37 CET ] [Original Post]
Minimum Setup
- Processor: 3 Ghz or higherMemory: 4 MB RAM
- Memory: 4 MB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX650 or equivalent
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Recommended Setup
- Storage: 1000 MB available space
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