Salt 2: Shores of Gold

Salt 2: Shores of Gold

Released Nov 2025

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.

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Salt 2: Shores of Gold launched out of Early Access on November 12, 2025, after more than three years of development. At launch, Lavaboots Studios explicitly stated they would continue expanding the game with new quests, enemy types, points of interest, island types, and items. Since launch, the studio has maintained a consistent cadence of major content updates roughly every 2–4 months. Confirmed post-launch major releases include: a new guild and post office commission system (March 10, 2026), and new hand-crafted islands with quests, dungeons, and loot improvements (June 22, 2026). Most recently, on August 10, 2026, the developer posted a preview of the next update, which is actively in development and planned to hit the beta branch within 3–4 weeks of that post. This update will introduce a brand-new Survival Skill Tree and a set of Legendary Animals with unique crafting rewards. The same post notes the studio is also working on a PlayStation 5 port of the game, which is dividing the two-person team's time but has not stopped content development. The developer has not announced any end to updates or content development. Active communication and a concrete upcoming update preview confirm the game continues to receive substantial new content.
Evidence
Developer previewed the next update, planned for the beta branch within 3–4 weeks: a new Survival Skill Tree and Legendary Animals system with new crafting materials and rewards. Confirms the two-person team is actively developing new content while also working on a PS5 port.
news post · Aug 10, 2026 source content planned
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Major content update shipped adding new hand-crafted islands with quests, items, and dungeons found past the 30-unit mark, plus numerous balance changes and fixes.
news post · Jun 22, 2026 source content shipped
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Details

Publisher
Lavaboots Studios
Achievements
36
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op

About this game

Salt 2 is a pirate themed open world game with a focus on exploration, crafting, survival, and RPG elements.

You wake up stranded on an island and must find resources to build a raft and head out to sea. Set sail across the world solo or with up to 5 friends. Your ship will act as your traveling base as you explore in any direction you want. Discover islands filled with hundreds of hand crafted caves, ruins, pirate forts, and other mysterious places. Follow the main storyline to uncover the mysteries of the world or join various guilds and earn a name for yourself. Craft powerful weapons and armor, hunt and fish for survival, level up your character unlocking unique skills and talents for your gear, and decorate your ship, making it your home at sea.

What Makes Salt Different Than Other Pirate Games?

In Salt 2, we've prioritized the PVE experience, allowing you to play completely solo or cooperatively with friends.

This isn't a game with naval combat, but is focused on PVE content such as decorating your ship, going on quests, and exploring islands with tons of unique locations. You don't have to worry about being attacked by other players while exploring the sea and losing your progress. The core gameplay is built around the solo and cooperative experience. A huge focus has also been put on making your ship your home base at sea. We've added over 100 different ship decorations you can place anywhere on your ship. Plus, the world is procedurally generated so you can explore in any direction for as long as you want.

Explore an Infinite World

Salt 2 is about pure freedom. You start in the middle of a vast ocean, pick a direction, and set sail across a procedurally generated world. Navigate the seas with a compass and sextant, using map coordinates as your guide to new locations. Discover uncharted islands with ruins, pirate camps, seaports, and over 200 unique dungeons all filled with loot and lore. Even though the islands are procedural, our points of interests are hand crafted with unique secrets, puzzles, and design.

Travel With Your Base

Your ship is your home at sea. While exploring the world you will find all kinds of items to craft and decorate your ship making it unique to you. You can place items virtually anywhere on your ship and customize it as you see fit. While traveling the sea you can also craft items, cook food, and fish for survival.

Fish and Hunt to Survive

You’ll need food to survive. Grab a fishing pole and toss a lure overboard to catch some fish or grab your bow and head into the woods to hunt some wildlife. Once you've got your ingredients, it's time to start cooking. With over 50 different meal recipes to discover, you'll constantly be on the lookout for a new recipe that will not only keep you alive, but give you passive benefits as well.

A World You Can Live In

We wanted to create a world that you could not only get lost in, but live in. You set the pace of your adventure and decide what you want to do. Maybe you’re in the mood to go on epic quests and hunt down a world boss, or maybe you just want to relax on the shore and catch some fish. The choice is yours.

Fight Legendary Enemies

The islands are full of dangerous enemies. Fight legendary pirates, skeletons, bosses, and dangerous wildlife in your hunt for adventure.

Craft and Upgrade

As you explore the world you will discover tons of resources that can be used to craft new items, armor, weapons, and decorations for your ship.

Level Up

Character progression is an important aspect of Salt 2. Level up your character and skills unlocking new world tiers, crafting recipes, and other upgrades. With each new world tier comes more difficult enemies and rare loot.

Delve Into Dungeons

We've taken a lot of inspiration from games like Diablo and Skyrim when designing our dungeons. While exploring the world you'll discover caves, crypts, ruins, temples, and other dungeons full of secrets, enemies, puzzles, and unique loot.

Loot Epic Gear

Salt 2 features an RPG style loot system with different rarities of armor and weapons, and interesting stats to tailor to the play style you want. Each piece of gear also has randomized talents. So whether you are crafting a high level item, or hunting down a pirate captain for an epic sword, you'll always be searching for that new rare item with the perfect roll.

Go on Quests

Dock your ship at a sea port and pick up quests and commissions from guilds, the townsfolk, and merchants.

About Lavaboots Studios

We're a two man development team at Lavaboots and our goal is to make fun and exciting games that inspire adventure. We grew up loving games that dropped you in a big world and let you explore and discover things on your own. Our goal is to recreate that feeling and create worlds that give you the freedom to create your own path and lose yourself in the adventure.

Last evaluated Aug 27, 2026
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