Striving for Light

Striving for Light

Released Jul 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.

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Evaluation

Striving for Light launched at version 1.0 on July 11, 2025 and has since maintained a clear seasonal content cadence. The developer, a two-person studio (Igniting Spark Games), has shipped multiple major free updates post-launch. Season 2: Era of Darkness arrived on April 24, 2026, adding a new Druid character class, a completely overhauled trinket system with a new legendary trinket slot, five new weapons, new skills, new map environments, a True Roguelike "Darkness Mode," and a seasonal world event mechanic. Alongside this free content update, a cosmetic Supporter Pack DLC was released, explicitly described as supporting "the ongoing development of Striving for Light and future Seasons." Most significantly, on September 18, 2026 — just one day before today's assessment date — the developer announced Season 3: Corruption League, with a league start of September 23, 2026 and a Race Event running September 25–27, 2026. This is the most recent communication from the developer and confirms that seasonal content development is actively continuing. The developer is using structured seasonal releases with leaderboard resets, a pattern that implies the game is designed for ongoing seasonal updates rather than a finite content roadmap. The established cadence between Season 1 (launch, July 2025) and Season 2 (April 2026) is roughly 9 months, and Season 3 is arriving approximately 5 months after Season 2 — with no indication from the developer that future seasons will stop. The Supporter Pack DLC description explicitly references "future Seasons," reinforcing this ongoing commitment.
Evidence
Season 3: Corruption League announced with a league start of September 23, 2026 and a Race Event September 25–27, 2026, introducing new corruption mechanics.
news post · Sep 18, 2026 source content planned
high
Supporter Pack DLC released alongside Season 2, described as supporting 'the ongoing development of Striving for Light and future Seasons.'
dlc listing · Apr 24, 2026 source development ongoing
high

Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content

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Details

Publisher
Igniting Spark Games
Achievements
208
Platform
Windows, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · Local/Split Screen

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 possibilities of buildcrafting and bring your dreambuilds to life
  • Master 9 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 13 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
  • Normal, Hardcore and Roguelike mode as well as 5 Difficulty Tiers
  • Hand-drawn world and an ~100 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
  • Additional meta progression skilltree

Shape the infinite Skilltree

  • Collect skillgems and shape your skilltree
  • Reconnect skill pathways
  • Reroll skills, or the entire skilltree and alter the outcome
  • Refund skills and flexible skill deactivation system

Gearing & Crafting

  • Deep itemisation system
  • 77+ unique weapon bases with randomised stats can be upgraded to legendaries and ascended by crafting
  • Over 48+ unique trinkets including powerful legendary trinkets
  • 76+ unique skill nodes
  • 9 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 including Darkness Difficulty for Roguelike Experience
  • 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
Last evaluated Sep 19, 2026
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