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Salt

Lavaboots Studios · 2018-02-06

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

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

Releases: Feb 06, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.

Salt is an Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG game released in 2018, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Mostly Positive sentiment (77% of 2252 reviews).

2
playing now
77%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
33/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
7
Nexus mods (1.9k downloads)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$14.99
steam price (US)

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

Salt is a game about the journey, not the destination. Set sail across an infinite, procedurally generated world exploring uncharted islands, discovering mysterious places, hunting down pirate captains and bosses, going on epic quests, upgrading your ships, hunting and fishing for food, and looting hundreds of rare items throughout your adventure. Current Features → Explore and Discover - Explore the sea and countless islands, discovering ancient ruins, cultists, merchants, and more. → Complete Freedom - Pick a direction and go. Whether it's fighting, exploring, questing, hunting, or crafting(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 27,660 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 56k–135k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,252 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2020-08-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 12 of 23 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
333320172026Week of 2017-10-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 02:00 — 5 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 5 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 5 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 4 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.492015-01-012026-08-102015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-06-11 — best price $9.892016-01-16 — best price $9.892016-07-04 — best price $14.992016-12-22 — best price $7.492017-06-22 — best price $7.492017-11-01 — best price $14.992018-02-13 — best price $19.992018-06-22 — best price $7.492018-11-15 — best price $7.492019-02-04 — best price $3.742019-07-15 — best price $14.992020-01-02 — best price $14.992020-03-02 — best price $14.992020-08-24 — best price $14.992021-01-14 — best price $1.492021-04-30 — best price $3.742021-09-13 — best price $1.492021-12-22 — best price $1.492022-04-29 — best price $14.992022-09-06 — best price $14.992023-01-05 — best price $14.992023-04-24 — best price $14.992023-08-21 — best price $14.992024-01-29 — best price $14.992024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-04-21 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992026-02-09 — best price $3.742026-06-19 — best price $3.752026-08-10 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
12.9%
earned "Treasure Tracker"
1.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2017-06-26 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8092%29

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

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

Player tags

RPGIndieActionPiratesSailingSandboxCraftingSurvivalAdventureOpen World

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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