Salt 2: Shores of Gold
Fair · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17h
- Value
- $1.18/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 660 or Later With Shader Model 5.0, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was April 2023. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 38 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Enshrouded ($39.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Salt ($14.99, scores 33).
Of the 625 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 27 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 462 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 332 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
32% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
36 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 07:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
its a chill looter with a pirate skyrim feel. its not pvp, but thats why I personally like it. its something to have fun with friends. also if you aren't a fan of water you cant see the bottom of like myself, its ok at least nothing is gunna get you in this game. the whales and sharks are just scenery in this game. will scare you if you weren't prepared to find it in front of you though. overall a great game, loot...
Great fun game, love the exploration and calm cosy nature of the game! Would like to see a bit more detail in textures etc. but I do understand this is a stylised and simpler game as far as visual goes. but I think if there was a bit of a texture/shader appearance overhaul it would really elevate it. Excited to see what else comes out in future updates - maybe chopping trees and digging could be fun features to...
Not nearly as fun as it looks. Clunky and confusing, this one gets old fast. AVOID
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Salt 2: Shores of Gold scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1574900/salt-2-shores-of-goldReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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