Games like Striving for Light
If Striving for Light is your kind of game, the closest matches are Striving for Light: Survival, Children of Morta and Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its controller support works well, endless build diversity and map modifiers alter difficulty. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Striving for Light: 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.
Players who liked Striving for Light also play
Steam players who put hours into Striving for Light also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Striving for Light: Survival
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a contemplative mood with Striving for Light.
Top pick for Striving for Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
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.
Children of Morta
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Striving for Light.
Second-strongest match for Striving for Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Striving for Light.
Third-strongest match for Striving for Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Battle hordes of monsters, acquire new skills, and upgrade your abilities. Customize your build with hundreds of item combinations and reach the top to fulfill your deepest desires. Conquer the tower in this thrilling roguelite hack and slash survivors game!
Bravery and Greed
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Striving for Light.
Ranked #4 for Striving for Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Bravery and Greed is a beat 'em up, roguelite, dungeon brawler for up to four players. Choose from four classic fantasy classes, engage in a deep robust combat system, and play a variety of co-operative and competitive game modes with friends via local, online or both. Get rich, or die trying!
Dungeon Souls
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Striving for Light.
Ranked #5 for Striving for Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
Last Epoch
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Striving for Light.
Ranked #6 for Striving for Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Uncover the Past, Reforge the Future. Ascend into one of 15 mastery classes and explore dangerous dungeons, hunt epic loot, craft legendary weapons, and wield the power of over a hundred transformative skill trees. Last Epoch is being developed by a team of passionate Action RPG enthusiasts.
Legend of Dungeon
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Striving for Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Legend of Dungeon is a randomly generated action RPG Beat'em'up with heavy Rogue-like elements, striking visuals, and dynamic music.
Moon Hunters
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Striving for Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Striving for Light.
Play alone or with friends! A co-op personality test about exploring an ancient, occult world in 5 days. How will you be remembered?
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The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Striving for Light.
Reviewers of Striving for Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
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Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Striving for Light.
Reviewers of Striving for Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Striving for Light.
Reviewers of Striving for Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Diablo® IV
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression with Striving for Light.
Reviewers of Striving for Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Striving for Light.
Join the fight for Sanctuary in Diablo® IV, the ultimate action RPG adventure. Experience the critically acclaimed campaign and new seasonal content.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Striving for Light at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Striving for Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Striving for Light.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Striving for Light.
Priced ~60% under Striving for Light on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Striving for Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Striving for Light.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Striving for Light on Steam right now. Shares Action with Striving for Light.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Striving for Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Striving for Light.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Striving for Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Striving for Light.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Striving for Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Striving for Light.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Striving for Light on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Striving for Light.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Striving for Light.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Striving for Light.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Striving for Light.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Striving for Light.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Striving for Light.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Striving for Light: Survival
WHY THIS
Shares meta progression and a contemplative mood with Striving for Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
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.
Children of Morta
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Striving for Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Striving for Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Battle hordes of monsters, acquire new skills, and upgrade your abilities. Customize your build with hundreds of item combinations and reach the top to fulfill your deepest desires. Conquer the tower in this thrilling roguelite hack and slash survivors game!
Last Epoch
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Striving for Light.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Striving for Light.
Uncover the Past, Reforge the Future. Ascend into one of 15 mastery classes and explore dangerous dungeons, hunt epic loot, craft legendary weapons, and wield the power of over a hundred transformative skill trees. Last Epoch is being developed by a team of passionate Action RPG enthusiasts.
Frequently asked about Striving for Light
- Is Striving for Light verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Striving for Light is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Striving for Light cost?
- Striving for Light is listed on Steam at 12.59 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Striving for Light have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Striving for Light supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Striving for Light?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Striving for Light are Striving for Light: Survival, Children of Morta, Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos.
- Who developed Striving for Light?
- Striving for Light was developed by Igniting Spark Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Striving for Light.
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