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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.

Release DateFeb 6, 2018
Price$ 14.99  Top 15%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)76.1% (mostly positive) / 76.5%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)73.5% / 73.9%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)2K  Top 10% / 2.3K  Top 10%
Curators118 reviews  Top 5%
Median Play Time14.6 hours  Top 10%
Play Time per Dollar58 minutes  Top 25%
Followers65.5K  Top 2%
Owners± 193.8K  Top 15%
Copies Sold± 143.2K  Top 10%
Gross Revenue ($)± 1.1M  Top 10%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Salt steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This graph shows Salt's Steam rating and reviews between October 2014 and December 2023. Steam's rating is in a range going from 97.5% (October 2014) to 76.4% (December 2023).

Salt is an AAA level success, with 2.3K reviews Top 10%. There is a peak in June 2015 that suggests a major update or discount.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Salt and the proportion of players they represent.

This donut graph displays the languages of Salt's Steam reviews. The most popular language is English (77%), followed by Russian (4%). There is a healthy diversity in the review languages, with 27 different languages represented. The game has only one translation (English). Having more translations could have boosted the game's popularity.

Time Played

Chart displaying Salt percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the number of hours played in Salt depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. It also shows the reviews during Early Access. The time in game is outstanding, with 56 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is 7 times less than the median for positive reviews.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Exploration (huge world to explore, mysteries to unravel)
  • Sailing (neat feature, open sea is beautifully rendered)
  • Ambient Sounds (amazingly well done)
  • Crafting system (build boats, weapons, armor, bombs)
  • Atmosphere (great sense of atmosphere, fulfilling exploration game)
  • NPC Vendors (added)
  • Neat UI
  • Repairing old pirate ships
  • Cartography (learned)
  • Combat (too simple)
  • Melee Combat (bare bones basic, needs work)
  • Crafting (god awful, frustrating, trial and error)
  • Graphics (ugly, bland, bare bones)
  • Ocean (completely empty, no flora or fauna)
  • Monotony (bland, boring, sameness in islands with minor differences)
  • Sailing (not fun, draggs out the game)
  • Food Meter (no real need, adds nothing to game)
  • No tutorial
  • Everything presented in text form (too often, too long)

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's score of 76.1% should be considered while evaluating them.

Please keep in mind that this list was AI-generated with only a statistical sample of Salt's review data that Steam provides. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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