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Salt 2: Shores of Gold

Lavaboots Studios · 2025-11-12

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Nov 12, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold is a 2025 Action, Adventure, Indie and RPG game priced at $19.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (85% of 2363 reviews).

31
playing now
85%
positive of 2.4k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

31 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

You wake up stranded on an island and must find resources to build a raft and head out to sea. Set sail across the world solo or with up to 5 friends. Your ship will act as your traveling base as you explore in any direction you want. Discover islands filled with hundreds of hand crafted caves, ruins, pirate forts, and other mysterious places. Follow the main storyline to uncover the mysteries of the world or join various guilds and earn a name for yourself. Craft powerful weapons and armor, hunt and fish for survival, level up your character unlocking unique skills and talents for your gear, (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 31 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 430 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~54/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 47k–106k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,363 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2023-04-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 14 of 26 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
29129120222026Week of 2022-09-01: 252 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 110 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 291 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

80192026-09-15 02:00 — 30 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 33 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 67 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 48 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 62 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 69 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 34 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 22 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 48 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 59 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 20 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 52 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 41 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 22 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 57 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 49 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 33 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 34 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 57 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 28 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 47 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 63 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 35 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 31 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
32816Sep 2022Aug 2026Sep 2022 — avg 328 · peak 637Nov 2022 — avg 56 · peak 142Jan 2023 — avg 31 · peak 76Mar 2023 — avg 26 · peak 71May 2023 — avg 31 · peak 80Jul 2023 — avg 32 · peak 65Sep 2023 — avg 16 · peak 69Nov 2023 — avg 22 · peak 77Jan 2024 — avg 47 · peak 110Mar 2024 — avg 30 · peak 94May 2024 — avg 32 · peak 105Jul 2024 — avg 32 · peak 91Sep 2024 — avg 22 · peak 62Nov 2024 — avg 25 · peak 67Jan 2025 — avg 24 · peak 59Mar 2025 — avg 33 · peak 69May 2025 — avg 19 · peak 45Jul 2025 — avg 27 · peak 69Sep 2025 — avg 59 · peak 146Nov 2025 — avg 214 · peak 948Jan 2026 — avg 136 · peak 357Mar 2026 — avg 99 · peak 246May 2026 — avg 58 · peak 217Jul 2026 — avg 49 · peak 145Aug 2026 — avg 50 · peak 122
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$9.992022-09-202026-08-102022-09-20 — best price $16.992022-11-29 — best price $19.992023-02-06 — best price $13.992023-03-23 — best price $19.992023-05-29 — best price $12.992023-07-13 — best price $19.992023-09-25 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-01-22 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-05-27 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-09-16 — best price $9.992024-11-04 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $9.992025-02-10 — best price $19.992025-04-14 — best price $9.992025-06-02 — best price $19.992025-08-04 — best price $9.992025-09-22 — best price $19.992025-11-12 — best price $15.992025-11-21 — best price $15.992025-12-12 — best price $10.002026-01-10 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $9.992026-04-01 — best price $19.992026-06-20 — best price $10.002026-07-14 — best price $19.992026-08-03 — best price $9.992026-08-10 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

36
achievements tracked
31.4%
earned "Well Well Well"
4.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DPvENavalPiratesSailingSandboxCraftingSurvivalOpen WorldExploration

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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