Salt
Skip · RPG · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB video card with shader model 2.0, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
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.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
August 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. It has been discounted 83 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 44 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Creativerse ($24.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Out of Reach ($14.99, scores 2).
Of the 482 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 392 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
13% 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
1 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 11:01 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Salt scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/327860/saltReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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