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Salt

Lavaboots Studios · 2018-02-06

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

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.

1
playing now
77%
positive of 2.3k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
33/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 07:00 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

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 24% of 10,791 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 56k–135k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,251 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 13 of 25 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-11 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 4 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 07:00 — 1 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

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.

Player tags

RPGIndieActionPiratesSailingSandboxCraftingSurvivalAdventureOpen World

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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