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Striving for Light

Igniting Spark Games · 2025-07-11

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Nov 29, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 11, 2025 (Linux)

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.

80%
positive of 237 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$17.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 68% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 56% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.7k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 237 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2022-05-02)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $17.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
505020212026Week of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$17.99$3.992021-11-292026-07-092021-11-29 — best price $6.792022-02-03 — best price $7.992022-03-31 — best price $4.792022-05-09 — best price $7.992022-06-24 — best price $5.592022-08-14 — best price $7.992022-11-10 — best price $5.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $6.992023-04-19 — best price $9.992023-10-14 — best price $14.992023-12-02 — best price $11.242024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-02-12 — best price $11.242024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-05-13 — best price $10.492024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-10-25 — best price $11.242024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-02-10 — best price $11.992025-07-11 — best price $15.292025-09-06 — best price $17.992025-10-13 — best price $17.992025-12-18 — best price $13.492026-01-23 — best price $17.992026-03-19 — best price $13.492026-05-08 — best price $17.992026-06-25 — best price $12.592026-07-09 — best price $17.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
54.8%
earned "Every beginning is hard"
19.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudStats2 DLC

11 supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Polish, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2280%208

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGLootActionFantasyIsometricAction RPGRogue-likeRogue-litePerma DeathEarly Access

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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