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Salt 2: Shores of Gold

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Relaxing and immersive sailing and exploration
  • Large procedurally generated world with varied islands and dungeons
  • Meaningful skill progression and crafting systems
  • Ship customization and decoration
  • Stable and polished for an early access game

Things to keep in mind

  • No multiplayer or co-op yet
  • Combat is simple and can feel clunky
  • Ocean and world feel somewhat lifeless with limited npc activity
  • Navigation and map system can be unintuitive
  • Some grind and repetitive elements

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Sail Forth

  • YAR: Forgotten Throne

  • Rodina

  • Pine

  • Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships

  • Gedonia

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Salt 2: Shores of Gold but with less leadership over others

  • Wild West and Wizards

  • Eternal Edge+ Prologue

  • The Bloodline

  • Lost in Random™

  • Vertigo 2

  • Tchia

More social

Games that feels like Salt 2: Shores of Gold but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Voyagers of Nera

  • Raft

  • Survival Nation

  • Valheim

  • Windrose

  • 5089: The Action RPG

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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).

Salt 2: Shores of Gold: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026