Games like Dust and Salt
If Dust and Salt is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Four Paths, Pathway and 与我签订契约，成为救世勇者吧！ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and epic. 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 →About Dust and Salt: Dust and Salt is a text-based narrative adventure with a pinch of turn-based tactical battles which has you as the main hero leading your troops in a gritty, low-power, medieval fantasy world. You decide where to go and whom to form alliances with. Force your will with either diplomacy or through war.
Players who liked Dust and Salt also play
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The Four Paths
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dust and Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dust and Salt.
Play as Roy and sacrifice everything in exchange for money. Play as William and atone for your sins with a brutal revenge.
Pathway
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dust and Salt.
Second-strongest match for Dust and Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
与我签订契约，成为救世勇者吧！
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dust and Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
Summoned by the Goddess of Time, You're the hero who time-travelled and shoulders the responsibility of saving the collapsing new world. We plan to design four classes with totally different mechanics, aiming to provide a diversified gaming experience to players.
战棋英雄
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dust and Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
This is a continent ravaged by war and scarred by the constant invasion of other worlds. Players will play as a young prince who eventually grows into an invincible leader after countless battles.
Dungeon Mana
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Ranked #5 for Dust and Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dust and Salt.
In this turn-based roguelite, each run is unique: characters are randomly generated with different abilities. Combat revolves around three colors of mana: red, blue, and green, creating dynamic strategies. Overcome battles and face the final boss. Master the mana!
Fabled Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dust and Salt.
Ranked #6 for Dust and Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.
Earthling's Undertaking
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dust and Salt.
Ranked #7 for Dust and Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Dust and Salt.
《天地归虚》是一款中国上古神话题材的修仙RPG+策略战棋游戏。玩家扮演一名落魄宗门的掌门人，游历神秘莫测的太初世界，经营门派培养弟子，寻仙求道提升修为，探索太初世界天道倾斜的原因，揭露诸仙背后隐藏的阴谋，打破命运的樊笼，谱写属于自己的神话传说。
Prime of Flames
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dust and Salt.
Ranked #8 for Dust and Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
This is a special strategy game that combines Wargame and Roguelike. As the guider of the former ancestors, you revived and arrived. In the name of Star Envoy, you leave for the Human camp, and lead the warriors of different clans with talents and abilities to find the truth of history and disaster.
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Heroes of Might & Magic V
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Reviewers of Dust and Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay. In the renowned Might & Magic universe, demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault.
The Age of Decadence
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dust and Salt.
Reviewers of Dust and Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Dust and Salt.
The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.
The Banner Saga
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dust and Salt.
Reviewers of Dust and Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Dust and Salt.
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.
Lone Wolf
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Reviewers of Dust and Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
Lone Wolf: A Post Apocalyptic Beat-Em Up Role Playing Game. This action/adventure game lets a player use martial arts skills, weapons, and turn into a werewolf to fight their way through a world set in the aftermath of post nuclear devastation.
Fighting Fantasy Legends
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Dust and Salt.
Reviewers of Dust and Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
Create your own adventures in a dangerous land of monsters, treasures and traps. From renowned authors Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone (co-founders of Games Workshop) and Nomad Games, Fighting Fantasy Legends is a role-playing card game set in the world of Fighting Fantasy.
Open Sorcery
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dust and Salt.
Reviewers of Dust and Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
BEL/S is an Elemental Firewall: a fire elemental bound with C++ code to protect a network of people and places. She can learn things, develop relationships, and even gain sapience. Or she can burn everything with fire. It's up to you.
Blade and Sorcery
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dust and Salt.
Reviewers of Dust and Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
Blade & Sorcery is a built-for-VR medieval fantasy with full physics driven melee, ranged and magic combat. Become a powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer and devastate your enemies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dust and Salt at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Dust and Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~63% under Dust and Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dust and Salt.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~53% under Dust and Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~75% under Dust and Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~81% under Dust and Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~88% under Dust and Salt on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dust and Salt.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Dust and Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Dust and Salt.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dust and Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 and Casual with Dust and 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 Adventure with Dust and 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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dust and Salt.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dust and Salt.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and 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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dust and Salt.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Dust and Salt.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Prime Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Prime Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Fabled Lands
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dust and Salt.
Another title from Prime Games, the studio behind Dust and Salt. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.
Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
WHY THIS
Another title from Prime Games, the studio behind Dust and Salt. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.
Trap for Winners
WHY THIS
Another title from Prime Games, the studio behind Dust and Salt. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt.
A gripping sci-fi interactive thriller that lets you shape your own character and his morality. YOU make the choices – and suffer the consequences!
Blood Sword
WHY THIS
Another title from Prime Games, the studio behind Dust and Salt. Shares Indie and RPG with Dust and Salt.
An ancient evil returns. A sword lost to legend. A party bound by fate. Forge your legacy in a story-rich RPG of turn-based combat and branching choices, inspired by the classic Blood Sword saga.
Frequently asked about Dust and Salt
- How much does Dust and Salt cost?
- Dust and Salt is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dust and Salt?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dust and Salt are The Four Paths, Pathway, 与我签订契约，成为救世勇者吧！.
- Who developed Dust and Salt?
- Dust and Salt was developed by Prime Games.
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