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
QoL improvents, bugs and crash fixes.


There were plenty of hotfixes during the last 2 days to fix arising issues and optimising the experience with the legacy content update. The hotfixes have been merged in these patch notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/3369274392194090582
If you have encountered issues during the last days make sure to check the the patch notes and if your issue is not listed and is still occuring please let us know.
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!
WIth Update 0.6.0.2 a new shard of conjunction range preview was added to display the acting range also improvements to the trade UI were made. Last but not least the most critical current crash related to the skill gem event should be fixed now.
Shard of Conjunction Connection Preview
The shard of conjunction now gives a preview in which area the shard will connect nodes.
Improved merchant trade UI
Its now much more clear which items have been selected for purchase and which not. Also the controller support for the trade UI has been improved as well for proper highlighting which item you are currently viewing and which one has been selected.Further improvements
- Initial game volume has been lowered on first game start (v0.6.0.2b)

- The crash when receiving a skill gem reward from the darkness challenge map event sould finally been fixed now.
- Fixed a bug which caused you to be locked out of the endboss arena.
- Controller input to open stats and skillgems menu is now received from all input devices (was only device 0 before) (v0.6.0.2a)
- Fixed a bug which caused issues with the key rebinds (v0.6.0.2b)
There were plenty of hotfixes during the last 2 days to fix arising issues and optimising the experience with the legacy content update. The hotfixes have been merged in these patch notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/3369274392194090582
If you have encountered issues during the last days make sure to check the the patch notes and if your issue is not listed and is still occuring please let us know.
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!
[ 2022-08-10 16:36:46 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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