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.
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.
Game Features
- 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.