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

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

Update 0.8.1.1

With update 0.8.1.1 we are introducing a new balancing system to Striving for Light. This new balancing system will make it possible to have a gradual difficulty increase without bloating enemy HPs.

New Features

Map Tiers

Maps can now be of a certain tier (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X). Each tier comes with a unique map icon. Game Description Image

Once your character reaches level 30 these higher map tiers will start to appear in the pathfinder. The map tiers are bound to your character level so weaker characters that struggled progressing will get higher map tiers later.

Maps with a higher tier come with additional enemy and trap damage. These modifiers can't be changed or mitigated. Each map tier adds 1 additional enemy and trap damage to the map. In contrast to compensate this we have reverted the increased HP scaling to a value only a bit over the pre 0.8 level.

We hope that this makes early-mid game more fluid and enjoyable by also making the endgame challenging without bloated enemy HPs.

Balancing

Massively reduced enemy hp scaling to only be slightly above pre 0.8 update
Increased spawn rate of increased melee and increased projectile damage
Energetic Stone Boss now has larger attack range
Gatekeeper Iron Frost attacks have been reworked
Gatekeeper defence objects now have a slight hit cooldown to prevent them being one shotted in endgame. Therefore the hit amount was reduced to 8 (was 10)
Reduced maximum trap cap by map mods to +200% (was unlimited before) to prevent small maps being overflooded with traps
Excluded chicken companion and increased collect range from the skill spawn pool. It can be still be obtained by events and added manually to the skill tree.

If you encounter any bugs or issues please let us know. The best way to engage in the ongoing development of Striving for Light is our discord:
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[ 2023-03-23 17:51:38 CET ] [Original Post]