Old Salt

Released: Dec 5, 2025
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 12:59 GMT

Updates & announcements

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25 Jan 2026Developer post
⚓ Update 0.8.0 – Steam Deck, Linux & Controller Support!
⚓ Launch Update – Steam Deck, Linux & Controller Support! Our latest patch sets sail with major platform support upgrades, UI refinements, and a boatload of bug fixes—making Old Salt more accessible and smoother than ever. 🎮 New Platform Support ✅ Steam Deck Verified Old Sal
⚓ Launch Update – Steam Deck, Linux & Controller Support!
Our latest patch sets sail with major platform support upgrades, UI refinements, and a boatload of bug fixes—making Old Salt more accessible and smoother than ever.
🎮 New Platform Support
✅ Steam Deck Verified Old Salt now runs beautifully on Steam Deck, complete with optimized controls, input switching, and on-screen keyboard support.
🐧 Linux Support You can now play Old Salt on most modern Linux distributions. Multiplayer and controller input have been fully validated.
🎮 Full Controller Support Extensive UI/UX work has gone into ensuring a seamless controller experience:
Toggle seamlessly between controller and mouse/keyboard.
Ability popups, ship commands, and menus are fully navigable via gamepad.
UI prompts dynamically reflect your input method.
✨ Improvements
Automatic input detection: switching from controller to keyboard instantly updates UI.
Ability UI navigation now accessible by controller.
Improved feedback when move actions are completed (e.g., "Cancel" button state).
Visual cues added to highlight active controller buttons.
Unified fonts for cleaner UI presentation across platforms.
added on-screen keyboard for controller
Large overhaul to AI decision making and available actions
🐛 Bug Fixes
AI Player
Fixed: AI Zealot Free Fire attacking twice
Fixed: AI Island Claim failure
Fixed: AI Actions limited from player skip
Fixed: Broadside retaliation attack requirement error
Fixed: AI sailing through occupied cells
Fixed: AI wasting a sail by firing first and still sailing towards target
Gameplay
Fixed: Barbarian Battle Cry Pathing Path
Fixed: Conflicting Retreat and Grappling logic
Controller & Input
Fixed: Controller mode could get stuck with no way to return to mouse.
Fixed: Sound sliders unresponsive to controller input.
Fixed: Ability popups could not be selected via controller.
Fixed: “Cancel” button remained active after movement completion.
Fixed: Hotkey icons missing in some menus when using a controller.
UI & Visuals
Fixed: Inconsistent fonts across screens and resolutions.
Fixed: Movement animation breaking under certain input conditions.
Fixed: Ability prompt positions incorrect under controller navigation.
Fixed: Camera drag issues after using mouse clicks.
Fixed: Island Menu popup in multiplayer
🧭 On the Horizon
With controller support and platform compatibility locked in, our next updates will focus on:
Visual polish
New abilities and factions
UI enhancements
Gameplay balance tuning
Thanks for sailing with us — see you on deck!
Original post
25 Jan 2026Developer post
⚓ Update 0.7.0 – Localization! Now supporting 27 languages
⚓ Localization and Stability Update This update brings Old Salt to players around the world with 24 new languages, alongside a wave of stability improvements and bug fixes to ensure smoother sailing for everyone. 🌍 Localization 24 New Languages Old Salt now supports a total of 2
⚓ Localization and Stability Update
This update brings Old Salt to players around the world with 24 new languages, alongside a wave of stability improvements and bug fixes to ensure smoother sailing for everyone.
🌍 Localization
24 New Languages Old Salt now supports a total of 25 languages, making the game accessible to players worldwide: French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Arabic, Greek, and Turkish.
Language Persistence
Your language selection now saves to your player profile and loads automatically.
Visual Improvements
Added country flag icons for language selection and updated fonts to support international character sets.
✨ Improvements
Added Localization Manager for centralized translation support.
AI difficulty settings now affect decision-making and action ratings.
Improved UI scaling for better compatibility across resolutions.
🐛 Bug Fixes
Crashes & Stability
Fixed: Potential crash when cancel button pressed during AI choice.
Fixed: Array bounds error causing infinite dice rolls.
Fixed: Null reference issues with ship node validation.
Fixed: Corrupted preview function causing errors.
Multiplayer
Fixed: Salvage health not syncing properly between players.
Fixed: Faction selection not syncing when player joins lobby.
Fixed: Engineer Salvage health increase bug.
Fixed: Reef blocking and push effects not syncing via RPC.
AI Player
Fixed: AI getting stuck in fixed state when player passes.
Fixed: AI ability evaluation and decision logic errors.
Fixed: AI bounty rewards processing failures.
Fixed: TurnConfirmation popup blocking AI turns.
Fixed: Bootleggers Raid preventing player choice on AI targets.

Abilities & Combat
Fixed: Abilities not properly clearing after completion.
Fixed: Retreat gold check blocking Grappling Hook and other abilities.
Fixed: Tradewind movement ignoring cell validation.
Fixed: Wave and other abilities not cancellable with ESC.
Fixed: Mitigate ability not populating for ships with damaged allies.
Fixed: Duplicate timer resume in Barbarian vs Barbarian combat.
Fixed: Duplicate ship wreckage spawning on single hex.
UI & Visuals
Fixed: Battle log damage display for AI attacks.
Fixed: Battle log coordinate display issues.
Fixed: Storm detection using incorrect collision method.
Original post
14 Dec 2024Developer post
Update 0.6.0 - Public Lobbies, Single Player Mode and New Rules!
New Features New Tutorial: Multiple missions to help explain the user interface and game rules New Game Rules: Bounty Reward System At the start of a players turn Masts can be converted into a payout. This can help boost essential action and allow for all ship attacks to be worth
New Features

New Tutorial: Multiple missions to help explain the user interface and game rules
New Game Rules: Bounty Reward System

At the start of a players turn Masts can be converted into a payout. This can help boost essential action and allow for all ship attacks to be worth the pursuit.

Multiplayer: Game Lobbies can now be toggled to public and will show up when other players go to the join game screen
New Graphics: All (18) Faction Abilities have been animated
Improvements

Game Detail window in the top right can be expanded to get more information on flag and island counts
Updated Battle Cry to new Rules
Updated Expedition to new Rules
Debris and Wreckage is now targetable
Improve Ship UI buttons and button flow
Added attack dice to all players in multiplayer games
Detect if no sails are available
Added attack dice interface to engineer's fortifications
Ships now sail around objects and not in straight lines
Bug Fixes
General

Fixed first attack breaking Attack dice interface
Fixed network targeting issues
Fixed Island Claim cost taking resource on a failed claim
Fixed firing after Free fire not showing target
Fixed Broadside calculation error
Fixed Stern/bow hit requirement
Fixed Ship UI buttons disabled after targeted ability
Fixed Broadside calculation failing a lack of line of sight
Fixed Attack pausing in multiplayer for pre-attack abilities
Removed Transcended ships moving through islands
Removed empty ability popup when player doesn't have enough gold
Abilities

Added Forgotten Retreat ability cost
Added Cursed coin affecting hit chances
Added Last Stand ships add wreckage
Fixed Non-Eternal ship freeze
Fixed Eternal Gateway destination issue
Fixed Range Expertise Ability UI
Fixed Raid ability cost calculation
Fixed Grappling Hook not being prompted
Fixed Last Stand not prompting from ability damage
Fixed Last Stand disappearing on Overkills
Fixed Last Stand UI issue
Fixed Last Stand not appearing on multiplayer
Fixed Battle Cry action range 1 to 2
Fixed Battle Cry trigger range
Fixed Storm Hit Requirement not updating on the same turn it is placed
Fixed Tradewinds breaking gateway ability
Fixed Bootlegger Raid ability reducing sail twice on the same ship
Fixed using Grappling Hook two times in a turn doesn't spawn the ability button
Fixed Ranged Expertise prompt issues
Fixed Salvage multiple popup failure
Fixed Elite mitigate ability overhealing
Fixed Salvage ability on multiplayer
Removed Grappling hook's ability to pull fortifications
Removed Cursed coin enabled on off-turns
Removed Salvage enabled on off-turns
Visuals

Fixed visual offset issue on ship movement animations
Fixed left and right click breaking camera drag
Hit Requirement not displayed correctly through storms
Fixed Last Stand aura not appearing
Fixed Fortify animation
Fixed Battle Cry breaking turn system when activated during ship firing
Fixed Elite Formation visual issues
Fixed Particle animation issue with Retreat
Fixed Salvage animation starting from the wrong ship
Fixed damage popup not appearing above storms
AI Player

Fixed AI sometime sailing to the exact spot
Fixed AI first round taking two turns
Original post
19 Feb 2023Developer post
Update 0.5.0 - New UI, Visuals and bug fixes
New Features More AI behavior Overhauled user interface Overhauled Attack process and visuals All new ability visuals Physical Versions have shipped! Join our newsletter for more updates and games! Next Up Campaigns!
New Features

More AI behavior
Overhauled user interface
Overhauled Attack process and visuals
All new ability visuals

Physical Versions have shipped!
Join our newsletter for more updates and games!
Next Up
Campaigns!
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08 Jan 2022Developer post
Update 0.4.0 - AI Player and Cross Platform Matches
New Features Cross-Platform Play Android version publicly available AI/Computer Player added to Matches Improvements Better touch detection Gameplay hints can be toggled in options New Match Connect UI More battle logged info Island Claim UI improved Return fire is calculated bet
New Features

Cross-Platform Play
Android version publicly available
AI/Computer Player added to Matches
Improvements

Better touch detection
Gameplay hints can be toggled in options
New Match Connect UI
More battle logged info
Island Claim UI improved
Return fire is calculated better and can detect line of sight
Grappling Hook updated to new rules
Bugs

Fixed memory leak during networked matches
Fixed Barbarian ship Transcending during last stand (that was fun...)
Cursed Coin crashing on mobile
Hit Distance not matching from stern
Hit Distance not modified correctly from storm
Last Stand UI did not appear during networked match
Pierced target window did not correctly display hit distance
Ranged Expertise not limited by gold and not correctly appearing for marksman ships
Next Up

UI updates
More AI behavior
Tutorial
Technical changes to prepare for Campaigns
Original post
19 Oct 2021Developer post
Development and Gameplay Live Stream
Join us live, We will be going over the development road map and playing a few online matches. We will being talking about the development of the Factions and gameplay strategy and future campaigns! Cursed Coin Ability:

Updates & announcements

⚓ Update 0.8.0 – Steam Deck, Linux & Controller Support!

⚓ Launch Update – Steam Deck, Linux & Controller Support!

🎮 New Platform Support

✨ Improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

AI Player

Gameplay

Controller & Input

UI & Visuals

🧭 On the Horizon

⚓ Update 0.7.0 – Localization! Now supporting 27 languages

⚓ Localization and Stability Update

🌍 Localization

✨ Improvements

🐛 Bug Fixes

Crashes & Stability

Multiplayer

AI Player

Abilities & Combat

UI & Visuals

Update 0.6.0 - Public Lobbies, Single Player Mode and New Rules!

New Features

Improvements

Bug Fixes

General

Abilities

Visuals

AI Player

Update 0.5.0 - New UI, Visuals and bug fixes

New Features

Physical Versions have shipped!

Join our newsletter for more updates and games!

Next Up

Update 0.4.0 - AI Player and Cross Platform Matches

New Features

Improvements

Bugs

Next Up

Development and Gameplay Live Stream