Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

The Empire took your ship. Chained your crew. Get them back.

Sails of Salt is an atmospheric pirate roguelite about a short, dangerous career at sea, and the legend it leaves behind. Sail out to raid, hunt and explore. Die, and you lose everything you haven't secured. Come home instead, and your legend grows for the captain who sails next.

Key Features

• Real-time broadsides. Aim by feel in the chase, or hold to line up a precision shot. Target the hull, the rigging or the deck, and let the swell decide your aim.

• Recruit and train your crew. Every hand starts as a nobody. Turn them into officers who carry your ship's fights and your line's story.

• Refit your ship. Salvage blueprints, install new hulls and rigs, and turn plunder into a faster, harder, deadlier ship.

• Build a fleet. Capture enemy ships instead of sinking them, and sail out with company at your back.

• Hunt down your crew's legends. Your flagship was taken and its founding crew scattered in chains. Track the rumors, storm the fortresses, bring them home.

• A living sea. Take contracts, chase rumors and make hard calls at every landfall, in a world that expands the further you dare to sail.

• A hidden haven. Bank your plunder in a pirate cove hidden inside a live volcano, and build it up between voyages.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI was occasionally used as a starting point that the developer then reviewed, edited, or reworked by hand before implementation:

- Code: an AI coding assistant helped write and refactor game code throughout development.
- Text: AI assistance was used for portions of in-game text, reviewed and edited by the developer.
- Music: some third-party music tracks used in the game were originally created using AI by their source (not generated by the developer).

Sound effects and visual art are made entirely by hand.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Sails of Salt is a pirate naval-combat roguelite. Combat involves cannon fire and boarding actions; crew members can be wounded or killed, shown as a brief, stylized colored particle effect (not realistic gore). Character death is permanent within a playthrough (permadeath).

The story's framing involves captivity and forced imprisonment: named characters are held in chains as trophies at enemy fortresses, and the player frees them over the course of the campaign. Rum and taverns are recurring settings in the pirate theme; alcohol appears as part of the setting, not as a gameplay mechanic built around abuse.

There is no sexual content, drug use, or self-harm depicted in the game.