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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

Pre Release Race Event

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PRE-RELEASE RACE EVENT

We are hosting a 48h Pre-Release Race Event which will take place at the 31.1. - 2.2.2025 starting and ending at 6pm CET.

Unique Twist

The very first softcore race.
Utilise the latest character specialisations and unlocking system for the first time in this race!

Participate with FREE Demo Version

For this race you can fully participate with the free Striving for Light Demo. This is the perfect possibility to invite all your friends & content creators to join the event and experience Striving for Light.

Dynamic Price Pool

This race has a dynamic price pool. The price pool will depend on the amount of participating players and increase by 1 / each participating player that reaches at least 50 challenge points in the leaderboards and has registered for joining the event on the Igniting Spark Games Discord .

Price Pool

1. Place: 50% of price pool + Design Weapon/Skill/Trinket together with the devs which will be implemented into the game.
2. Place: 30% of price pool
3. Place: 20% of price pool
4.- 6. Place: Striving for Light: Steam Key

Price pool will be rounded up to available steam gift cards, price pool can't exceed 200

How to participate

Join the Igniting Spark Games discord & introduce yourself in #rift-race
Please stick to fairplay, no cheating, no offensive player names, violation will result in disqualification of this and future events

How to win

Complete seasonal challenges to earn challenge points, the player with the most challenge points wins!

Special Features:

The very first softcore race!
Utilise the latest character specialisations and unlocking system for the first time in this race!
You can fully play the whole race event with the Striving for Light Demo.
Dynamic Price Pool: So invite all your friends and your favourite content creators to increase the price pool!
Race is hardcore only

This race celebrates the extensive Rift Content Update v.0.9.5. You can read the update preview here to prepare yourself for what is coming to Striving for Light:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/4525646159699148751

Feel invited to Join the Igniting Spark Games discord !

[ 2025-01-19 19:05:28 CET ] [Original Post]