Salt 2: Shores of Gold on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Salt 2 is an open world pirate game focused on exploration, survival, crafting, and RPG elements. Set sail across an infinite world with just you and your ship. Explore islands filled with quests, caves, towns, pirates, and secrets. Level up skills, craft, hunt, fish, loot, and decorate your ship.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold is a early access, open world and survival game developed and published by Lavaboots Studios.
Released on September 20th 2022 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 1,302 reviews of which 1,133 were positive and 169 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 8.39€ on Steam with a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified Salt 2: Shores of Gold into these genres:

Early Access Open World Survival Sailing Pirates Crafting Exploration Sandbox Action-Adventure PvE Naval Procedural Generation Character Customization 3D First-Person Action Adventure Nonlinear Loot Fishing

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 8 or later
Processor: 2.5 Ghz Quad Core or Similar
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 660 or Later With Shader Model 5.0
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 2 GB available space

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March 2025

Thank you to the devs of Salt & Salt 2, you have given many people hours of adventurous & entertaining fun. You all put in a lot of work & I appreciate that very much.

Jan. 2025

A relaxed pirate adventure. Sail the seas and explore hundreds of procedurally generated islands, whilst levelling up your skills. Play your way; decorate your boat, go fishing, take on quests for different guilds, craft equipment, kill enemies or go hunting for food. I really enjoyed this game, great work from an indie dev ♥

Dec. 2024

I'm not normally fond of procedural generation, but this game is kind of a gem! For example, I find No Man's Sky to be somewhat... soulless and empty? It feels lonely just to play it, and the universe is kind of dead inside. This game also does some procedural work (I believe) on the islands, but it works out because there is still stuff to do, and it just feels more lighthearted. The color palette is beautiful, the motion and controls are smooth, the actions have good feedback on screen... this game just "feels" good to play. There is a main quest line that I am on. There are some guilds you can join up with, and I presume they each have a quest line. Most of the other quests are radiant... you can kind of just keep repeating them. Most of those are simple collection quests though... gather 3 bear hearts, etc etc. The nice thing is, you can turn in all of your quests at any mailbox, so you don't need to return to the quest giver. And you can build a mailbox on your ship! So that works out, then all you do is turn in all your quests right from your ship. Very handy. The crafting is spot on. It's there, you want to do a lot of it, but it doesn't waste your time. It doesn't make you wait 30 seconds for every item. You can blast out a bunch in a few seconds while you are leveling up your crafting. Higher level recipes give more xp, but take more components and require you to have leveled up, etc. Chests on your ship share items, so you can place more than one and not worry about access. All crafting stations on your ship can pull from your chests, so no worries about what to do with your components... just dump them in the chest. The combat is fun. It's silly, but in a good way. Don't get me wrong, it can get deadly! You run out of stamina in the middle of a fight and you are in serious trouble. But dying isn't really a big deal, you just respawn. It's actually a pretty chill game in that way. Customizing your ship happens slowly as you discover or purchase recipes for new decorations. You can also buy bigger and faster ships and have several of them if you like. What's neat is you can never lose your ship, because it is inventory based... you just plop it down in the water wherever you are and there you go! And that actually works in this game, because again the experience here is a bit chill and easy going... you are meant to focus on gathering, crafting, fighting, and navigating. The other time wasting stuff is shoved off to the side. I really appreciate that about this game. Fishing is super chill. Just set up with a nice view, cast your line and calmly watch the waves while you wait for a bite. Inventory management is pretty well done... everything has a category and there are all kinds of filters. It works really well. Lots of different little bonuses you can find on items, and crafting weapons and armor gives each a random unique buff so you can keep crafting in order to get lucky and find that +1 dex sword you wanted, or that +dmg to animals bow. I'm definitely going to be putting more hours into this, especially if I'm too low energy for more challenging or stressful games, or even just on a rainy morning. It really is quite pleasant, and I recommend it!

Nov. 2024

TL;DR: It took me 75 hours to complete all of the main guild quest lines, but I enjoyed it enough to do so. All of the below is based on early access build, Nov 2024. The things I liked: - using a sextant for navigation gave the sailing a more authentic feel than having a typical compass and mini-map on the HUD - the parrying in melee combat was satisfying - the weapon levelling system - the trade skill system - the ship decorating Things that could be better: - be nice to have a main story quest that linked up to all of the guild faction quest lines - instead of a quest sending you to an island you've already cleared, it could easily send you to one you haven't cleared - while I liked the navigation system, more convenient options in the late game would be good - placement of decorations is finicky due to the boat movements, be great if sea ports had a "dry dock" we could use when we decorate - the textures in caves felt a bit bland compared to the rest of the game - while I liked the option of "tagging" islands, but wish it was a little more automatic Things I didn't like: - you had to be way too close to an island to map it, using telescope and sextant should be enough if it's within visual range - even though you didn't have to account for weapon drop for bows and pistols, you did for throwing knives. I understand it for the bombs, but it felt inconsistent - sometimes throwing weapons would get lost under the corpse of enemies you barely missed. they're there, but you can't get at them

Sept. 2024

Salt 2: Shores of Gold is a chilled game of exploration. Your ship is your home. In a procedurally generated world you can sail and explore to your heart's content. There is danger on the islands, sometimes unexpectedly. There are caves to explore but you never know what will be waiting for you in them. Tons of crafting to do, resources to harvest, and skills to level up. I recommend you enter the world of adventure and purchase this game :) Arr!

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-50% 16.79€ 8.39€

8.3

1,133

169

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Developer

Lavaboots Studios

Publisher

Lavaboots Studios

Release 20 Sep 2022

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