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
With Update 0.5.2 we are adding a preview area for where the skill gem will be placed. We are also improving the unlock system by granting players a choice between 3 weapons/ skills for unlocking. This patch comes also with some improvements to the linux/ steam deck version.
Skillgem placement preview
For the placement of skill gems a new preview will display the area in which the skill gem will be placed. The radius displays an approximation on possible connections.
Improved Unlocks
Unlocking new skills or weapons at the NPCs in town will now let you choose between three weapons or skills to pick from.
- Improved camera pan input processing for the skill tree
- Increased player detection radius for enemies in sand environment and gatekeeper bosses
- Currently equipped weapons are now excluded from the drop list
- Increased basic font size for better readability of dialog on small sized screens (steam deck)
- Increased experience reward for defeated bosses on higher dungeon floors
- Increased experience reward for optional bosses (very low experience values before)
- Increased experience reward for gatekeeper bosses
- Increased drop chances for all skill tree shards for all chests
- Increased drop chances for all skill tree shards from enemies and destructible objects
- Increased weapon drop chances for map and optional boss chests
- [Enemy] Sand Worm Enemies now directly target player when charging
- Fixed missing weapon description for spear weapon
- [Linux] Fixed camera pan issues in the skill tree
- Fixed a bug which caused camera to pan unintended on controller input
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!
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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