Games like Sea Salt
If Sea Salt is your kind of game, the closest matches are CARRION, Morbid: The Seven Acolytes and Blasphemous — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and melancholic. 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 Sea Salt: Sea Salt is a dark fantasy reverse horror action-strategy game where you play as the nightmarish force of Dagon by controlling and growing a horde of minions.
Players who liked Sea Salt also play
Steam players who put hours into Sea Salt also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
CARRION
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Sea Salt.
Top pick for Sea Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sea Salt.
Second-strongest match for Sea Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is a Horrorpunk Action RPG filled with Lovecraftian horrors and Cronenbergian gore, making it the most gruesome take on the isometric Souls-like genre yet!
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Sea Salt.
Third-strongest match for Sea Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
The Last Faith
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sea Salt.
Ranked #4 for Sea Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
ASYLUM
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sea Salt.
Ranked #5 for Sea Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sea Salt.
An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sea Salt.
Ranked #6 for Sea Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sea Salt.
Iratus: Lord of the Dead is a turn-based tactical roguelike RPG set in a dark fantasy universe. Lead an army of undead to help an angry necromancer in his quest to reach the surface world and bring death to the mortal realms!
Still Wakes the Deep
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sea Salt.
Ranked #7 for Sea Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.
Dungeons 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sea Salt.
Ranked #8 for Sea Salt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Sea Salt.
At last, the Dungeon Lord has successfully united the forces of evil and established his dark empire. Time for the next step in his most diabolical quest: expansion!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Sea Salt
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The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sea Salt.
Reviewers of Sea Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.
Post Void
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Sea Salt.
Reviewers of Sea Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.
King Krieg
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sea Salt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
Combine abilites to create infinite possibilities of spells and decimate thousands of enemies. King Krieg is a top-down arena roguelite where YOU are the KING and you buy mystical items, find powerful guns, and craft new spells
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sea Salt at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Sea Salt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sea 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 Sea Salt on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sea 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 Sea Salt on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sea 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 Sea Salt on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sea 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 Sea Salt on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sea 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.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Sea Salt on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sea Salt.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Sea Salt on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sea 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 Sea Salt on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sea 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...
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 Sea 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 Sea 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 Sea Salt.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Sea 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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sea Salt.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from YCJY Games
Other recommendable Steam games by YCJY Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Post Void
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Sea Salt.
Another title from YCJY Games, the studio behind Sea Salt. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.
Keep Driving
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sea Salt.
Another title from YCJY Games, the studio behind Sea Salt. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sea Salt.
An atmospheric management RPG about life on the open road. Pick up hitchhikers, work odd jobs, customize and repair your car, and map your route across the country. Use upgrades, skills and items to overcome challenges. And remember to take it easy. You’re young. You have time.
The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sea Salt.
Another title from YCJY Games, the studio behind Sea Salt. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
CARRION
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Sea Salt.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sea Salt.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
Morbid: The Seven Acolytes is a Horrorpunk Action RPG filled with Lovecraftian horrors and Cronenbergian gore, making it the most gruesome take on the isometric Souls-like genre yet!
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Sea Salt.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Sea Salt.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
ASYLUM
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Sea Salt.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sea Salt.
An epic supernatural horror adventure and the spiritual successor to cult classic Scratches set in a massive, decaying mental institute. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Hammer Films and twisted Euro Horror from the 80s.
Frequently asked about Sea Salt
- Is Sea Salt verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Sea Salt is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Sea Salt cost?
- Sea Salt is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sea Salt?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sea Salt are CARRION, Morbid: The Seven Acolytes, Blasphemous.
- Who developed Sea Salt?
- Sea Salt was developed by YCJY Games.
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