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

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Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold is a early access, open world and survival game developed and published by Lavaboots Studios.
Released on November 12th 2025 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 1,330 reviews of which 1,159 were positive and 171 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

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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Dec. 2025

I was very close to giving up on the game in the first couple hours. I'm glad I stuck with it though. If you're thinking about buying this, keep in mind that it was only made by two people. It does not have naval combat, the sailing mechanics are very basic, and the enemy AI and combat isn't the greatest. That said, you won't find anything else like this game out there. The best part for me is that you can basically focus on whatever you feel like, whether it's exploring, questing, or just upgrading and decorating your ship. It's also very casual, which I found a bit off-putting at first but later came to appreciate. You can fast travel between certain islands you find (not all of them), teleport to your ship at any time, and there is no penalty for dying. So it's a great low-stress game you can pick up and put down at any time. As far as content goes, there's a lot more than I expected. There are several guilds each with their set of quests. These aren't just copy and paste content either. Every quest I've done so far has taken me to a unique hand-crafted dungeon. I still haven't gotten through all of them yet.

Nov. 2025

Some of the other geniuses who leave reviews don't read the game's description before buying. I bought the game SPECIFICALLY because there's no naval combat. There are TONS of games that provide this. I wanted one that didn't. Every other aspect of the game is what I was after. If you're wanting naval combat, play another game. Just don't buy one that specifically says it's not in there and then leave a review complaining about it. That makes you stupid. I play this with my 9yo and we have a blast exploring islands and hunting for loot. And the best part, the main reason I bought this, is we never get back to shore to find some moron sinking our ship while hurling racial slurs. The "mongos", as they like to call other people, are somewhere playing pocket pool as they write angry reviews. All the negative reviews for this game boil down to "don't like what I don't like", and it's okay to ignore those people. I give it a 10/10 for the same reason others give it 0/10. It's not SoT.

Nov. 2025

Let me preface by saying this, for a game made by 2 people it is freakin impressive. This is one of the few open world crafting games I really enjoyed playing. Granted the game does feels short of few features as a pirate game like canons on ship or ship combat in general. But it does makes up for it with sailing, cave dungeons, dynamic weather, crafting, treasure hunting even underwater, fishing, hunting animals, ship building, general combat, plethora of quests, boss fights and navigation mechanics etc. One gripe I have with the game but it could be related to my hardware as I play it on my laptop so the performance fluctuate from 19-30 fps throughout the day but at night or inside rooms and caves it doesn't, as much. But I think this can be addressed with the implementation of resolution scaling. Overall, it's a great adventure and has some of the best visuals I have seen in a game, out in the sea watching the sunset is a real treat. The soundtrack is also brilliant but as I said if the developers could add performance update this could be easily be but still is one of the best pirate and indie game on the market imho. P.S. After reading so many reviews on this game, I came to the conclusion labeling it as a pirate game doesn't do it any justice. A more fitting description would've been an exploration game set in the pirate era or as someone else pointed out, a pirate themed game.

Nov. 2025

Very simple and enjoyable game. I would like to see ship combat but for what it is, im having a good time. Honestly, it's a breath of fresh air that its not some kind of pvp game.

May 2025

This is kinda random but I think this game is actually the closest thing to Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall that is currently available to the public. The game is largely about always exploring, sailing to islands, exploring the islands, getting better stuff, doing randomly generated quests. The game actually has a lot of content variety with different factions you can join. There's one about diving, one about killing stuff, one about exploring and there are a few more, plus the main questline. There are quite a few carrots to keep you going like getting better gear but I think the biggest thing is actually probably cosmetics. The game has a lot of cosmetics that you can deck out your ship with and yes, the ship, your ship, is your home in this game and you bring it everywhere as you explore islands which come in a few different biome types. As you get wealthier you can get bigger and better ships. There are islands, different types of enemies, you want to eat to keep alive which is easy enough, the game has many dungeons too but it balances outdoor and dungeon content pretty well. Some people may not enjoy this but the world does scale up in power every 10 levels so do keep an eye out for better gear. There are also skill levels that you level up, like sword skill, gun skill, bow skill, gathering skill, exploring skill and more. Your character levels up but right now I don't actually remember if it's exp based or if it's elder scrolls style where leveling up skills will level your main level up. The developer has consistently been releasing updates and they've all been quite exciting in their own way. I think they have released a roadmap somewhere if I remember correctly so you can get an idea of what else they're considering to add to the game. It looks like they're currently spending about half of their development time on creating multiplayer which is in high demand by the playerbase and the playerbase seems to accept that feature development is being sacrificed to make multiplayer happen but updates have still been steady. Great game overall and I hope they see more success.

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Salt 2: Shores of Gold is currently priced at 16.79€ on Steam.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 16.79€ on Steam.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold received 1,159 positive votes out of a total of 1,330 achieving a rating of 8.29.

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Salt 2: Shores of Gold was developed and published by Lavaboots Studios.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold is not playable on MacOS.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold is not playable on Linux.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold does not currently offer any DLC.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold does not support Steam Remote Play.

Salt 2: Shores of Gold is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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