Salt and Sanctuary
Worth it · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99.
- Length
- 16.4h
- Value
- $1.10/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 10 compatible video card with shader model 3.0 support, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.
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The value story
October 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $4.49. 60 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nine Sols ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($9.99, scores 60).
5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 1,353 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
91% start to 10% 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
48 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Great level design even if lacking a map. Combat is solid. Appreciate the end game not having some ridiculous grind. Economy is a mess. Accept farming. Platforming is a meh. After you have all the brands and are near end game its much better, but if the first half of this type of game is brutal than its brutal. It has some rough edges. 7/10.
Game is so deep in the way you can build you skill tree! love it, rear gem! It feels like this game is mix of Hollow knight and Witcher, amazing combo.
Some of the traps feel janky as ♥♥♥♥, and it makes losing your salt feel like a cheap and ♥♥♥ experience.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Salt and Sanctuary scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/283640/salt-and-sanctuaryThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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