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Striving for Light

Igniting Spark Games · 2025-07-11

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

Striving for Light is an Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie game released in 2025, priced at $17.99, with an estimated owner base of 0 .. 20,000 and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (80% of 240 reviews).

80%
positive of 240 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$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 27% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.8k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 240 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 8 of 16 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

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2021-11-29, latest 2026-04-24 (Steam store data)

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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