Developer posts and news about this game.
A build for your ears This update is mostly about how the demo sounds and how it treats you when things go wrong. Nearly every placeholder tone from the early builds has been replaced, the dark cave now has real acoustics, crafting your first Nucleus Pore has its own lesson, dyin
The water is now full of living bacteria that scatter, regroup and get eaten in front of you. Your cell has a real nucleus and real DNA inside it. And a new game no longer just drops you in: you watch your cell form. Living bacteria: Four species, hundreds of cells. Purple Staph
A real route through the dark The demo just updated to v0.9.91, and it is the biggest change since the demo went live. The dark jelly cave west of the reef is no longer a dead end you can poke your nose into and leave. It is now the way forward, it commits you, and it has its own
The water has a voice now! The demo just updated to v0.9.8. This one is mostly for your ears: a full sound pass across the menus, the combat and the water itself, plus a set of virus changes so the threats in the reef read clearly and behave the way they look. Audio Ambient water
Fresh build is live on Steam. If it hasn't pulled yet, restart Steam or right-click the demo → Properties → Installed Files → Verify. TWO NEW CREATURES Both are real species, and both are food — neither carries DNA. Dunaliella salina — the salt-loving alga that turns whole lagoon
Salty Demo v0.9.4 is live — a performance hotfix, plus a few tweaks Small update, big difference if you play for a while. Thanks to everyone who told us the demo got choppier the longer they played. The fix: the game no longer slows down with every New Game If you played for 20–3
Salty now plays fully on a controller — and it's ready for the Steam Deck The demo just updated to v0.9.3. The headline: you can launch, play, craft, evolve and quit Salty without touching a keyboard or mouse. What's new Full controller support. Left stick to swim (analog — half
The Salty demo just got its biggest visual pass yet. If you played it in the last couple of weeks, it's worth another look — the ocean looks like a different game. WHAT'S NEW - All-new lighting and shading — the whole ocean has been relit. Vents glow warmer, the jelly cave reads
You're one cell, in a new world. The free demo for Salty: Evolution Simulator is live — download it right now from the store page and start your climb up the food chain. And yes, we're part of the PvE Survival Crafting Fest through Sep 7, so if you're browsing the fest, welcome.