Dust and Salt

I've bought 186 games on Steam, this will be the second one I ever refund. If you're looking for story rich games I suggest: Sunless Sea and Academagia. Avoid this.

A cool adaptation of a fun old chose-your-own-adventure book. With amazing art and a memorable sound track. It does have some basic turn-based battles here and there but the core of the game is an old school text based interactive story.

Couldn't tolerate catastrophically-unexplained do-it-again-stupid no-agency choose-your-own-adventure opening for long enough to see if there's anything of value afterwards. Felt like the worst games of the late 1970s.

An interesting story, just wish it was longer.

I play a lot of CYOA (Choose your own adventure) games. This one's pretty good but could've been better. Pros: - Very interesting setting, I really wish there was a lore book inside the game to learn more about it. - Gorgeous map. - Wonderful music by Danheim - Some of the sidequests are pretty interesting - Paying attention to the dialogue and the lore actually rewards you in some situations (take notes if you can) Cons: - Only limited to 3 skills per playthrough - too limiting in my opnion - The main plot is nothing to write home about. A pinch of Conan, a dash of ASOIF, and a bit of Glen Cook's Black Company - Battle system is not great. Frankly I am not sure the game even really needs one. I think instead it could've used a more interesting dueling system instead - Not enough choices in most situations, that's when there are choices at all. I wouldn't say the story is completely linear but in any given quest there are very few options compared to some other CYOA games - Very little initial explanation of how certain things (like Glory points) work Conclusion: Definitely worth picking up on sale, but I think it could've had more depth.

Dust and Salt is about 4 hours worth of play which is worth the full price tag to me even though I got it on sale for $4. I love games like these, choose your own adventure book style games. These type of games leave all of the imigination to you and it can be really awesome at times. There were some points in the game where I did not like the forced choices the character made, but I can understand how difficult it is to develop a game with total choice for the player. The combat is meh. Its OK. Not amazing, but not terrible. I would recommend this game to anyone who likes choose your own adventure type games. Even though this game is about 4 hours for a playthrough, it was an incredibly fun 4 hours to me.

I would call this game a fantasy reading simulator with some very basic turn-based combat. It's all very basic, but if you want some written story-driven entertainment this may be for you.

As a gamebook fan, it was about time to play Dust and Salt. The first thing which impressed me, was the fascinating music; it creates a great atmophere. The story was intriguing and the art well-favoured. I've also enjoyed the Heroes of Might&Magic alike battles and map movement. I recommend this game and am looking forward to play the sequel The Battle for Murk!

Incredibly basic, battle system is atrocious, story is standard fantasy revenge plot. Look towards IOS games Sorcery! if you want a good version of this!

It is a very good narrative adventure. Not much in terms of replayability (unless you are unable to get the highest amount of Glory and care for that) but otherwise a solid story and good interconnected scenarios.