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Dust and Salt cover art

Dust and Salt

Prime Games · 2018-01-25

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 25, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 22, 2018 (iOS)

Dust and Salt is a text-based narrative adventure with a pinch of turn-based tactical battles which has you as the main hero leading your troops in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world. You decide where to go and whom to form alliances with. Force your will with either diplomacy or through war.

0
playing now
84%
positive of 77 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$7.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 71% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 77 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$3.99-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.59 at Steam (2022-12-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 6 of 11 observed days · $2.40 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$7.99$1.592018-01-262026-08-272018-01-26 — best price $7.992018-05-07 — best price $5.352018-07-05 — best price $7.992018-10-30 — best price $5.592018-11-28 — best price $7.992019-02-04 — best price $5.992019-03-25 — best price $7.992019-06-26 — best price $3.992019-08-26 — best price $7.992019-11-26 — best price $4.792020-01-02 — best price $7.992020-02-24 — best price $5.592020-04-20 — best price $7.992020-10-29 — best price $2.712020-12-01 — best price $7.992021-02-11 — best price $3.992021-07-08 — best price $7.992021-10-28 — best price $3.992022-01-05 — best price $7.992022-04-04 — best price $3.992022-07-07 — best price $7.992023-01-05 — best price $7.992023-06-29 — best price $2.712023-09-04 — best price $7.992023-12-21 — best price $1.592024-02-12 — best price $7.992024-05-23 — best price $1.992024-07-11 — best price $7.992024-09-30 — best price $1.992024-11-18 — best price $7.992024-12-20 — best price $2.392025-03-20 — best price $7.992025-06-26 — best price $3.992025-08-25 — best price $7.992025-12-18 — best price $2.712026-03-26 — best price $7.992026-06-25 — best price $1.992026-08-27 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

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Player tags

2DRPGIndieCasualAdventureRogue-likeStory RichReplay ValueSingleplayerStrategy RPG

Census log

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