Salt and Sanctuary

Salt and Sanctuary launched on May 17, 2016 and has been updated by Ska Studios consistently ever since. Two major content milestones mark the game's post-launch history: Linux and macOS support alongside the Japanese version launch on July 8, 2016, and a substantial Randomizer mode — featuring three challenge variants, 4K resolution support, and a migration to the MonoGame framework — on August 1, 2024. In between, the studio delivered meaningful feature-level patches, including cloud save support and quality-of-life improvements (October 29, 2022) and a new Enhanced Combat mode offering an alternative balance experience (April 15, 2023). The most recent patch, 1.0.2.2, arrived on October 21, 2025, with balance adjustments across Enhanced and Randomizer modes, bug fixes, and backend changes noted as useful to modders. The last major content release (the Randomizer update) was on August 1, 2024, and with a roughly eight-year gap between the first and second major content drops, the current window since August 2024 — just over 14 months as of today — does not indicate the pattern has lapsed. The developer has not announced that development is complete, and the October 2025 patch confirms the studio remains actively engaged with the game.