Salt and Sanctuary
Worth it · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$17.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.4975% offWorth it
- Cost per hourA
- $1.10/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 22,031
- Critics
- 84 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% RPG
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 81% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.4h
- To 100%
- 32.1h 2.0x the story
- Achievements
- 37
Price and sales
- Sales
- 61 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $4.49 October 2019
- Sale every
- 47d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 43 now
- Recent reviews
- 81% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 18% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
91% start to 10% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
61 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Death's Gambit: Afterlife ($9.99, scores 60) and Vigil: The Longest Night ($21.99, scores 58).
More about Salt and Sanctuary
Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 81 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 1,357 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.49 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
You can tank every boss in the game with a greatsword on first try and then repeatedly lose all the salt you've earned from them on another hideous leap-of-faith platforming. 12/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's difficult for me to be completely unbiased as to recommending this game, as it definitely has a lot of shortcomings that sour the entire experience for new players, and even deterred me from playing it for a while. So, I will divide this review into three aspects: Gameplay, replayability, and mechanics. I will keep the lore out of this review in order to avoid spoiling the experience. ~ Gameplay ~ Quite easily...
Unfortunately I have to give a non recommendation because there is no "too hard" option. If you like souls-like games then this game is probably for you. For me personally as older player the beginning was fun but the second boss I gave up. Playing it trough with walktroughs and unlimited health still was fun for me.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Salt and Sanctuary scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/283640/salt-and-sanctuaryReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.