Games like Salt
If Salt is your kind of game, the closest matches are Salt 2: Shores of Gold, Green Hell and Force of Nature — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and peaceful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Salt is an open-world sailing exploration game released in 2018 by Lavaboots Studios. Set across a vast oceanic expanse, players navigate between islands seeking loot and discoveries in a first-person perspective. The gameplay loop incorporates island exploration, crafting with item combinations, and fishing, alongside optional permadeath mode for added challenge. Multiplayer supports online co-op, which players describe as a standout feature, allowing friends to sail and explore together. The game offers a medium-length experience designed for a sit-down session pace. Currently priced at $14.99 USD, it holds a 76% positive rating from over 1,500 Steam reviews. Players highlight the immersive sailing mechanics, atmospheric sea shanties, and surprisingly deep item-combination puzzles as particularly engaging elements.
About Salt: 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.
Players who liked Salt also play
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Salt 2: Shores of Gold
WHY THIS
Shares ship building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Salt.
Top pick for Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
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.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Force of Nature
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Planet Explorers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Salt.
Ranked #4 for Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Osiris: New Dawn
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Salt.
Ranked #5 for Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
Out of Reach
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Savage Lands
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares island exploration and an atmospheric mood with Salt.
Ranked #8 for Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Salt
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Thief of Thieves
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Salt.
Reviewers of Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
In Thief of Thieves you play as a cat burglar using stealth, social engineering and team members to pull off some high profile heists across the world. Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, it’s time for Celia to make the leap from apprentice to master.
Raft
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Salt.
Reviewers of Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Salt.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Wild West and Wizards
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Salt.
Reviewers of Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Wild West and Wizards is an open world exploration RPG set in a re-imagined new frontier. Pick a class and level up unlocking abilities and exploring a world filled with quests, loot, outlaws, bosses, spells, caves, towns, and other mysterious places.
Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
WHY THIS
Shares fishing and an atmospheric mood with Salt.
Reviewers of Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Salt.
Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Salt at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Salt.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Salt on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Salt on Steam right now. Shares Action with Salt.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Salt on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Salt on Steam right now. Shares Action with Salt.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Salt.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Salt.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Salt.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Salt.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Salt.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Salt.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Salt.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Salt.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Salt 2: Shores of Gold
WHY THIS
Shares ship building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Salt.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
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.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Necesse
WHY THIS
Shares island exploration and an atmospheric mood with Salt.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Salt.
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Frequently asked about Salt
- How much does Salt cost?
- Salt is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Salt have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Salt supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Salt?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Salt are Salt 2: Shores of Gold, Green Hell, Force of Nature.
- Who developed Salt?
- Salt was developed by Lavaboots Studios.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Salt.
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