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Salt

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2018

Should you play it?

Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.

What works

  • Relaxing and immersive exploration
  • Vast procedurally generated world
  • Frequent updates and active devs
  • Customizable ships and crafting
  • Engaging navigation and map-making

Things to keep in mind

  • Basic and repetitive combat
  • Limited multiplayer features
  • Some bugs and early access issues
  • Tedious long-distance sailing
  • Minimal survival challenge

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • DYSPLACED

  • Len's Island

  • Everwind

  • Witchspire

  • Under A New Sun

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Less social

Games that feels like Salt but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Captain Bones: Prologue

  • Tchia

  • Zefyr: A Thief's Melody

  • Wild West and Wizards

  • Mika and The Witch's Mountain

  • Poi

More intimate

Games that feels like Salt but with more focus on close relationships

  • Drake Hollow

  • Voyagers of Nera

  • Windrose

  • FlyKnight

  • Raft

  • Swords 'n Magic and Stuff

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Salt. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Salt. These titles are not in What to play next.

Salt: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026