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Games like Striving for Light
Igniting Spark Games · 2025 · Windows, Linux
Steam: 74 % positive of 175 reviews, as of Oct 28
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.
24 games that play like Striving for Light and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Soulstone Survivors, Hades and Path of Exile.
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Plays and looks like Striving for Light
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Striving for Light
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Soulstone Survivors
91 % positive of 25,878
Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike
Hades
96 % positive of 287,552
Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike
Path of Exile
88 % positive of 250,245
Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · RPG
Heretical
83 % positive of 954
Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike
Death Must Die
90 % positive of 21,004
Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike
Heroes of Hammerwatch II
81 % positive of 5,866
Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike
Striving for Light: Survival
72 % positive of 133
Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike
Dwarven Realms
81 % positive of 2,859
Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike
Halls of Torment
95 % positive of 30,924
Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike
Rogue: Genesia
90 % positive of 8,215
Shared: Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite · RPG
Darkblade Ascent
80 % positive of 561
Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike
Last Epoch
76 % positive of 107,142
Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · RPG
More matches
- Dark Hunting Ground92 % positive of 775Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · RPG
- Rogue Blight89 % positive of 368Shared: Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite
- Conquest Dark89 % positive of 2,583Shared: Action RPG · Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite
- Path of Achra98 % positive of 3,204Shared: RPG · Dungeon Crawler · Perma Death
- Ember Knights93 % positive of 6,102Shared: Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite
- Curse of the Dead Gods84 % positive of 7,821Shared: Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite · Dungeon Crawler
- Trials Survivors84 % positive of 559
- Tiny Rogues96 % positive of 10,308Shared: Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite · RPG
- Torchlight90 % positive of 5,491Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · RPG
- Mortal Sin92 % positive of 5,598Shared: Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite
- Flamebreak93 % positive of 446Shared: Action Roguelike · Rogue-lite · RPG
- Pocket Rogues89 % positive of 585Shared: Action RPG · Hack and Slash · Action Roguelike
By look
Looks like Striving for Light
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Striving for Light: Survival
72 % positive of 133
Halls of Torment: Prelude
92 % positive of 1,428
Halls of Torment
95 % positive of 30,924
Scarlet Tower
80 % positive of 1,841
Rising Hell
88 % positive of 225
BALL x PIT
94 % positive of 25,317
Rogue Empire: Dungeon Crawler RPG
84 % positive of 357
Hammerwatch II
60 % positive of 1,873
Golden Swirl
87 % positive of 190
FATE: The Traitor Soul
91 % positive of 544
Torchlight II
91 % positive of 33,258
Keeper's Toll
87 % positive of 671
More matches
- Godslayer Arena75 % positive of 258
- Dungeon Defenders92 % positive of 12,208
- Heroes of Hammerwatch87 % positive of 7,525
- Ravenswatch78 % positive of 17,213
- Children of Morta87 % positive of 18,515
- Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue93 % positive of 1,558
- Hero Siege67 % positive of 36,973
- FATE: Undiscovered Realms85 % positive of 355
- Flowers and Deities88 % positive of 290
- The Vagrant89 % positive of 8,320
- Devil Slayer - Raksasi84 % positive of 2,725
- Torchlight90 % positive of 5,491
At a glance
What games like Striving for Light have in common
- The tags they share most often with Striving for Light: Action Roguelike (18 of 24), Hack and Slash (17) and Action RPG (15).
- They came out between 2009 and 2026, 2 of them after Striving for Light (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Path of Achra (98 % positive of 3,204).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.