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HotBlending 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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About Striving for Light
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.
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Dive into a dark, mysterious world filled with danger and a voice-acted story
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Explore random generated maps with plenty of world events and secrets to uncover
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Level up, utilise and shape a unique random generated and infinite expanding skilltree
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Near infinite possibilites of buildcrafting and bring your dreambuilds to life
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Master 8 character classes each with their own unique specialisation skilltree
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Hunt for randomised loot, craft and reforge weapons to true legendary power
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Unlock new skills, weapons, maps and characters
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Over 11 unique environments each with unique enemies and bosses to explore
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Endgame systems (Rifts, Mapping System, Pinnacle Bosses, Challenges)
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Online leaderboards with seasons and private league system
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Local-Coop mode
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Hardcore and Normal mode as well as 5 Difficulty Tiers
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Hand-drawn world and an 80+ minute soundtrack
Skill system
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Each run gives you a new unique skill tree to explore
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Combine melee, ranged and more, like pet skills, for nearly infinite builds
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Dynamic expanding skilltree depending on your skill pathway
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Collect skillgems and shape your skilltree: Reconnect, reroll, refund.
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Additional meta progression skilltree
Gearing & Crafting
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Deep itemisation system
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72+ unique weapon bases with randomised stats can be upgraded to legendaries and ascended by crafting
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Over 40+ unique trinkets including powerful legendary trinkets
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70+ unique skill nodes
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8 characters with unique specialisation skilltrees
Combat system
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Challenging enemies and boss encounters
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Active dual combat system with aim & attack (mouse, keys or controller)
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Dynamically switch between melee and ranged weapons during fights
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Powerful active abilities like shapeshifting and massive AoE attacks
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Dual resource system to manage melee and ranged attacks
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Dodge system to evade enemy attacks
Endgame system
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Delve deeper into the darkness and face an ever increasing challenge
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Infinite expanding map progression system
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Rift Endgame system
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5 Difficulty Tiers
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Add and alter map modifiers to increase the challenge but also your rewards
Seasons & Leaderboards
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Seasonal leaderboards for hardcore and softcore mode
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Earn honour points for each run and climb the seasonal leaderboard
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Compete in seasonal challenges
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Leaderboard for pinnacle boss fight rush
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Rift endgame leaderboards
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Offline mode
Procedural Generated Worlds
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Each map layout is procedural generated
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Ever changing world events like tower defense, arenas, dungeons, trials, and bossfights
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Wisely choose which maps to play and which world events to engage
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Hunt for the perfect loot and the ultimate weapons
Leave a Legacy
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Craft echo weapons that get added to the lootpool for other players to find
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Empower your echoes, design the visual appearance of your weapons
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Embed your personal inscription to share your message with other players
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