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Striving for Light: Survival cover art

Striving for Light: Survival

Igniting Spark Games · 2023-12-02

Steam

ActionCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Feb 20, 2023 (Linux), Feb 20, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Striving for Light: Survival brings the exploration of infinite expanding skill trees to the arena survival roguelite genre. Unlock new characters, weapons, skills and maps, slay hordes of monsters and take on massive boss fights.

77%
positive of 170 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 69% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (25 reviews).
  • · Top 32% of 27,328 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.4k–7.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 170 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.39 at Steam (2023-06-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 11 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
232320232026Week of 2023-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$2.392023-02-202026-10-082023-02-20 — best price $2.692023-04-05 — best price $2.542023-06-29 — best price $2.392023-11-21 — best price $2.392023-12-02 — best price $4.992024-01-13 — best price $4.992024-02-19 — best price $4.992024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-04-13 — best price $4.992024-05-20 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-08-03 — best price $4.992024-10-05 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-02-17 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-07-25 — best price $4.992025-09-06 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $3.742025-11-13 — best price $3.742025-12-18 — best price $3.742026-01-16 — best price $3.742026-02-22 — best price $3.742026-03-19 — best price $3.742026-04-24 — best price $3.742026-06-07 — best price $3.742026-06-25 — best price $3.742026-08-20 — best price $3.742026-09-26 — best price $3.742026-10-01 — best price $3.742026-10-08 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
77.6%
earned "Every beginning is hard"
7.2%
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 CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-03-01 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DActionCasualFantasyStylizedSurvivalAction RPGHand-drawnRogue-likeRogue-lite

Census log

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

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