Striving for Light: Survival
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.
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December 2, 2023
2 years and 244 days ago
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Mostly Positive167 reviews77.2%
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22 itemsAbout the Game
Experience the mysterious world of Striving for Light as an arena survival game, combining the exploration of infinite expanding skill trees and exciting auto battle combat.
Striving for Light: Survival is a standalone arena survival game originated from Striving for Light. We wanted to create a different player experience with a new combat and progression system. Both games can be played independently.
Key-Features:
- Experiment with more than 62 skills in a procedurally expanding skilltree
- 16 maps with different enemies, traps and multiple difficulties to unlock
- 8 different player characters
- 37 melee and ranged weapons to unlock
- Over 30 unique enemies, over 30 unique bosses and 16 unique endbosses
- Use dodge skillfully to avoid and escape attacks
- Local Couch Coop Mode
- Endless mode with uber bosses
- Compete in multiple online leaderboards with seasons and private league system
- Everything is hand drawn
- Self-composed soundtrack with over 77 min playtime
Striving for Light: Survival is a standalone arena survival game originated from Striving for Light. We wanted to create a different player experience with a new combat and progression system. Both games can be played independently.
