About the game

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.

Dive into a dark, mysterious world full of dangers

• Dive into a dark, mysterious world filled with danger and a voice-acted story
• Explore procedural maps with plenty of world events and secrets to uncover
• Level up, utilise and shape a procedural 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
• Dynamic expanding skilltree depending on your skill pathway
• Reforge connections between skill nodes or replace a skill by utilising collectible shards
• Collect skillgems and shape your skill tree

Gearing & Crafting

• Deep itemisation system
• 55+ unique weapon bases that can be shaped and upgraded to legendaries by crafting
• Over 35+ unique trinkets including powerful legendary trinkets
• 70+ unique skill nodes
• 8 unique characters with different stats and abilities to shape craft your build

Combat System

• Challenging enemies and boss encounters
• Dynamically switch between melee and ranged weapons during fights
• Powerful active abilities like shapeshifting and massive attacks
• Dual resource system to manage melee and ranged attacks
• Dodge system to evade enemy attack

Endgame System

• Delve deeper into the darkness and face an ever increasing challenge
• Infinite expanding map progression system
• Rift Endgame system with separate leader boards
• Seasonal Challenges and 5 Difficulty Tiers
• Add and alter map modifiers to increase the challenge but also your rewards

Localisation:

Available Languages: English , German, [WIP] French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese

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Development:

Striving for Light is currently in Early Access and in active development. This game will frequently receive updates until its full release.

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