Retrovolve: After years of seeing awesome indie title after awesome indie title pass me by, I finally decided to purchase a somewhat gaming worthy computer after a nearly two decade hiatus.
Emerse yourself sailing across the vast infinite ocean as a pirate.Quest, pillage and more with friends or in single player.
Chalgyr's Game Room writes:
Salt is a fun little game focused on exploration with enough mystery thrown in to make it a dangerously addictive passtime.
You begin as the proud inhabitant of a tiny island with no memory of who you are or where you come from. You first stumble around looking for food and hoping nothing kicks your unarmed behind. Your only clue to your identity is a journal from a “good Samaritan” who tells you of a chest containing materials for a boat. This boat….well raft really, and the others that you will built or steal as you go become your floating fortress and your key to survival. The only land around it is made up of thousands of islands and your boat is the only way to reach them. You can try to swim but it will take you a lifetime to get anywhere. So your boat is your lifeline.
Entertainment Buddha's Mark Steighner writes: "Minecraft has spawned many literal imitators, but its core concept – an open world builder, where the player starts with nothing and crafts an entire world and experience – has generated countless new games. Salt (from Lavaboots Studio) and Stranded Deep (from Beam Team Games) both take the open world builder premise and layer it on the “shipwrecked on a desert island” foundation. Both games are Early Access titles on Steam, and while the core concept is the same, they are very different experiences."
