Salt and Sacrifice

Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.

Salt and Sacrifice is a online co-op, souls-like and metroidvania game developed by Devoured Studios and Ska Studios and published by Ska Studios.
Released on November 06th 2023 is available on Windows and MacOS in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 1,192 reviews of which 751 were positive and 441 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.2 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 6.82€ on Steam and has a 65% discount.

The Steam community has classified Salt and Sacrifice into these genres:

Online Co-Op Souls-like Metroidvania Action RPG Character Customization Dark Fantasy Co-op Co-op Campaign Hack and Slash Action Adventure RPG Action-Adventure 2D Platformer Side Scroller Hand-drawn Combat PvP PvE Multiple Endings

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible video card with shader model 3.0 support
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers
Additional Notes: Gamepad recommended

MacOS

OS: macOS 10.12+ (64-bit)
Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core i5
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics
Storage: 2 GB available space
Additional Notes: Gamepad recommended

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Sept. 2024

Game gets a lot of flak but I thought it was an enjoyable sequel to the original. While it wasn't as good, it definitely had it's own strengths and was a solid 2D soulslike. I, for one, enjoyed the Mage Hunts that are so unpopular. Chasing them around was a pretty unique idea and while it can get annoying (especially with platforming), it wasn't as bad as I'd heard. Plus seeing Mages fight each other was cool. I just took the biggest Oonga Boonga stick conceivable and stuck to it till the end and won by the sheer mass and weight of my biggus bonkus. Bravo S&S you've done it again

July 2024

its really fun and people are hating on it a lot for it not being salt and sanctuary 2, takes place in the same world but its different and its worth a try, its more like a mixture of dark souls and monster hunter, than just a dark souls like game.

April 2024

Great game, but Salt and Sanctuary is still better. The mage hunts and everything is fun, but I think the Demon Souls-esque hub isn't really my thing. Jumping into different worlds from the hub has always made the game feel more disjointed and like each area is a separate world. I like when it is one giant map that you travel to different biomes in, not warp out to a hub and then just warp somewhere entirely different. In general though, there are a lot of things that just don't feel as good as in Salt and Sanctuary. Is Salt and Sacrifice great? Yeah, but if you want to play one of the two games, go with Salt and Sanctuary.

March 2024

I went into this thinking the game will be somewhat disappointing based on the reception from other players. What I found instead was one of the most addictive metroidvania/action platformers I have played. Hunting mages with specific equipment in mind and finetuning the skilltree based on said equipment is a gameplay loop that kept me entertained for hours on end. The weapons themselves were also really fun, having unique weapon arts which are actually completely viable in all combat scenarios. Mage-hunting and platforming up till the specific boss encounters got enough enjoyment out of me and never overstayed its welcome, even after grinding several mages over and over. With some minor traversal and gravity-related nitpicks, I would still recommend this game. The only real shame lies in several equipment pieces being locked into covenant rewards and with the online participation being as dead as it is, they were unobtainable. Much like its predecessor, the game did not disappoint. Thanks devs, looking forward to next title

March 2024

The Epic Store exclusivity deal was a slap in the face. Don't do that again, Ska Studios. With that out of the way, the game is good. Great, even. More than a worthy sequel to Salt & Sanctuary. There's your metroidvania-style exploration, tool acquisition opening up more exploration, non-linear progression with some backtracking and such. A lot of platforming. Done well, some good challenges and overall interestingly designed areas to traverse, but with that said: Prepare for bullcrap. Some of it optional, much of it not. You will, in all likelihood, be knocked off of high places more than once, which often kills you outright and can potentially cost you a lot of salt (experience) and silver (semi-useless currency), though if it should happen, in fairness, you can always get more of both later if you need it. Salt can be recovered from where you died, unless you die again; silver, you lose half of what you were carrying... so spend it ASAP, after you unlock some merchants, and don't worry about it until then. There's also your 2D-ified soulsy combat, with blocking, timely block-parries, parry counter-crits (underwhelming in this game, to be honest, and they don't work at all on a lot of enemies) and a lot of rolling away from devastating blows, blasts and traps. Also you can hit things with your own weapon now and then, if you time it right. You die, learn, die, get better, and eventually you die less. Your character gets very incrementally stronger but the slope is as long as it is slow; along your journey, you can grow more than strong enough to beat down whatever you like. Into this ties the gathering, crafting and upgrading. There are materials used for healing potion charges and ranged weapon ammunition replenishment, kind of monster hunter vibes there. Also you track down bizarre, towering mages, fight them and absorb their essence, while also collecting some crafting and upgrade materials. Loads of different mages, which you chase down, fighting their minions as you go, until they make their final stand. There are non-mage boss battles, but most bosses in the game are mages; there's great variety among them, though, and each brings its own attack patterns and minion types. From mage and minion materials, you craft weapons, armor, accessories... all kinds of neat things that grant a variety of protection types, attribute boosts, special and active abilities. Example: A fiery Highblade (katana) can, with the appropriate character ability learned, ignite its blade in order to apply burning damage over time as it strikes. Combine that with a ring of fast stamina recovery and an amulet of fast climbing, and you begin to see the possibilities. All in all, the game is a rich and rewarding experience - if you're prepared to go in with the necessary zen mentality of accepting death as part of the cycle of learning and all that. Highly recommended for fans of the original, or anyone wanting to try a fun, oddball mix of Dark Souls, Monster Hunter and Castlevania spanning several vast, darkly beautiful realms.

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Developer

Devoured Studios, Ska Studios

Publisher

Ska Studios

Release 06 Nov 2023

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