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Salt and Sacrifice

Devoured Studios · Ska Studios · 2023-11-06

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games Store

ActionRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 10, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Nov 07, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), May 10, 2022 (PlayStation 5), May 10, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.

Salt and Sacrifice is a 2023 Action and RPG title priced at $19.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (62% of 1,945 reviews) and an estimated owner base of 50,000 to 100,000.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

25
playing now
62%
positive of 1.9k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
77/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
74/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
43
Nexus mods (21k downloads)
3.54★
PlayStation Store rating (3,633 ratings)
25h
to beat · rushed 15h · completionist 55h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

Salt and Sacrifice is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Ska Studios. As the sequel to Salt and Sanctuary, the game was released on May 10, 2022, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Windows. It was later ported to Nintendo Switch on November 7, 2023.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 25 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 213 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~27/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 39k–88k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,945 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.99 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
24324320232026Week of 2023-11-01: 243 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 160 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5382026-09-15 18:00 — 24 players2026-09-17 02:00 — 22 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 17 players2026-09-19 17:00 — 30 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 23 players2026-09-22 08:00 — 15 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 24 players2026-09-24 23:00 — 14 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 18 players2026-09-27 14:00 — 45 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 16 players2026-09-30 05:00 — 15 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 19 players2026-10-02 20:00 — 27 players2026-10-04 04:00 — 34 players2026-10-05 12:00 — 53 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 35 players2026-10-08 03:00 — 36 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 24 players2026-10-10 18:00 — 39 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 20 players2026-10-13 09:00 — 18 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 25 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
18019Nov 2023Aug 2026Nov 2023 — avg 180 · peak 569Dec 2023 — avg 72 · peak 174Jan 2024 — avg 64 · peak 154Feb 2024 — avg 30 · peak 55Mar 2024 — avg 63 · peak 161Apr 2024 — avg 34 · peak 70May 2024 — avg 82 · peak 290Jun 2024 — avg 35 · peak 68Jul 2024 — avg 41 · peak 101Aug 2024 — avg 28 · peak 60Sep 2024 — avg 26 · peak 54Oct 2024 — avg 19 · peak 41Nov 2024 — avg 24 · peak 129Dec 2024 — avg 50 · peak 115Jan 2025 — avg 43 · peak 97Feb 2025 — avg 53 · peak 153Mar 2025 — avg 43 · peak 95Apr 2025 — avg 29 · peak 61May 2025 — avg 20 · peak 41Jun 2025 — avg 20 · peak 72Jul 2025 — avg 39 · peak 87Aug 2025 — avg 21 · peak 46Sep 2025 — avg 25 · peak 77Oct 2025 — avg 26 · peak 60Nov 2025 — avg 23 · peak 49Dec 2025 — avg 31 · peak 84Jan 2026 — avg 34 · peak 87Feb 2026 — avg 33 · peak 74Mar 2026 — avg 29 · peak 64Apr 2026 — avg 24 · peak 60May 2026 — avg 23 · peak 55Jun 2026 — avg 25 · peak 81Jul 2026 — avg 39 · peak 93Aug 2026 — avg 22 · peak 48
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$4.992022-05-102026-07-092022-05-10 — best price $19.992022-07-14 — best price $13.992022-07-28 — best price $19.992023-11-07 — best price $17.992023-11-13 — best price $19.992023-12-21 — best price $14.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-03-04 — best price $12.992024-03-11 — best price $19.992024-03-14 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-05-08 — best price $6.992024-05-15 — best price $19.992024-06-27 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-11-27 — best price $6.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992024-12-20 — best price $6.992025-01-02 — best price $19.992025-02-10 — best price $6.992025-02-17 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $5.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-06-26 — best price $5.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $5.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-02-09 — best price $5.992026-02-16 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $5.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

68182026-06-01 — 22 pageviews2026-06-05 — 38 pageviews2026-06-09 — 35 pageviews2026-06-13 — 39 pageviews2026-06-17 — 31 pageviews2026-06-21 — 42 pageviews2026-06-25 — 36 pageviews2026-06-29 — 40 pageviews2026-07-03 — 42 pageviews2026-07-07 — 37 pageviews2026-07-11 — 37 pageviews2026-07-15 — 31 pageviews2026-07-19 — 51 pageviews2026-07-23 — 24 pageviews2026-07-27 — 35 pageviews2026-07-31 — 21 pageviews2026-08-04 — 27 pageviews2026-08-08 — 48 pageviews2026-08-12 — 35 pageviews2026-08-16 — 27 pageviews2026-08-20 — 37 pageviews2026-08-24 — 38 pageviews2026-08-28 — 46 pageviews2026-09-01 — 30 pageviews2026-09-05 — 47 pageviews2026-09-09 — 44 pageviews2026-09-13 — 56 pageviews2026-09-17 — 40 pageviews2026-09-21 — 29 pageviews2026-09-25 — 27 pageviews2026-09-29 — 37 pageviews2026-10-03 — 38 pageviews2026-10-07 — 33 pageviews2026-10-10 — 35 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

56
achievements tracked
78.2%
earned "The Champion"
29.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opOnline Co-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform Multiplayer

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)5,31329%54
PS4 (PlayStation)3,24028%54
Steam (Steam)89917%56
Switch (Nintendo)410%0

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

Player tags

RPGCo-opActionAdventureAction RPGSouls-likeDark FantasyMetroidvaniaOnline Co-Op2D Platformer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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