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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.

Dust and Salt is an Adventure, Casual, Indie and RPG game released in 2018, priced at $7.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a review sentiment of Very Positive (84% of 77 reviews).

0
playing now
84%
positive of 77 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$7.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 45% of 28,821 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 1.9k–4.6k copies

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

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

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 5 of 9 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220182026Week of 2018-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
10Jan 2018Nov 2020Jan 2018 — avg 1 · peak 9Feb 2018 — avg 1 · peak 7Mar 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2018 — avg 1 · peak 3May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2018 — avg 1 · peak 17Sep 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2020 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2020 — avg 0 · peak 1

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Nov 2020

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
34.2%
earned "Breaker of Chains"
9.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DRPGIndieCasualAdventureRogue-likeStory RichReplay ValueSingleplayerStrategy RPG

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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