Games like Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
If Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk is your kind of game, the closest matches are Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery, Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle and Ruins of Araethia — picked from the ranked list below. 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: The Battle for Murk: 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.
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Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
WHY THIS
Top pick for Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
Once you open this book, you are no longer just a reader. A "reading-style" fantasy adventure in the spirit of The NeverEnding Story — handcrafted over six years by a 30-year veteran from Vanillaware. 100% handmade, from the first page to the last.
Ruins of Araethia
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
An open-world game set in a post-apocalyptic medieval fantasy world. Learn to survive, fight off threats, and thrive in a harsh world.
Fight in the Arena by Daniel da Silva
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
Fight in the Arena is a text-based RPG with an in-depth turn-based combat system.
Quiver Dick's Terrible Tale For Terrible Parents To Read To Their Equally Terrible Children
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
From the creative minds that brought you Metal as Phuk and The Chronicles of Quiver Dick, Crankage Games brings you another hilarious, boner-inducing tale of epic proportions! Embark on a journey as Mary the Fairy, a cannibalistic, foul-mouthed pixie in an even more foul-mouthed world!
Fabled Lands
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
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.
Roadwarden
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~50% under Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
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 ~63% under Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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 Battle for Murk.
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: The Battle for Murk.
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: The Battle for Murk.
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
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 Battle for Murk.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
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
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 Battle for Murk.
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.
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 Battle for Murk.
‘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
Another title from Prime Games, the studio behind Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
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
WHY THIS
Another title from Prime Games, the studio behind Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
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.
Trap for Winners
WHY THIS
Another title from Prime Games, the studio behind Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
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: The Battle for Murk. Shares Indie and RPG with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
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.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
A visual novel paying satirical homage to the world’s greatest TTRPG. Make important choices, roll countless dice, build lasting relationships, explore magical lands and experience all the rest of the crap you expect from a fantasy game without the hassle of finding actual friends to play with!
Fabled Lands
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
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.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Frequently asked about Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
- How much does Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk cost?
- Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk are Basements n' Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery, Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle, Ruins of Araethia.
- Who developed Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk?
- Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk was developed by Prime Games.
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