Now announcing the next major Small Gray Games project: South of the March is an RPG featuring a hybrid of JRPG-style turn-based combat and semi-open world visual novel exploration. It's set in the sa...

Thanks once more to everybody who has spent some time with The Salt Keep! The feedback I've received has been overwhelmingly positive, and there really isn't much to do at this point other than keep t...

The Salt Keep version 1.0.9 has been released and is now available here (on Mac/PC), on Android , and on iOS . This update makes a few small changes: Adds better button labeling for screen readers . T...

It's been two weeks now since I released The Salt Keep, so this feels like as good a time as any to give a bit of an update on the release, what I've learned from it so far, and what I'm still hoping...

The full version of the Salt Keep is out now! You can purchase it: On PC or Mac here on itch.io On Android On iOS The Salt Keep is a character-focused text adventure and RPG (think interactive fiction...

A key feature of The Salt Keep that allows players to continue their saved games even after switching platforms (from the demo to the full version, most likely) is the save export and import. First I'...

These are the main characters you'll (probably) spend the most time with while playing The Salt Keep. Exploration is central to the game, so there's no guarantee you'll even discover all of these char...

One of the last features I implemented for The Salt Keep was the achievements. It's one I went back and forth on for a long time, because something about it feels almost out of place for a game so foc...

RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCED I’m ready to announce that the full version of The Salt Keep is almost here! Add it to your collections, follow my page, and mark your calendars, because it will be on sale: F...

Beta testing for The Salt Keep is currently underway! The beta has been going for about a week now and will run until sometime in early-mid January, with a full release coming shortly after. I'm holdi...

A small new feature coming in the full version of The Salt Keep is the statistics popover. It's pretty straight-forward: a popover available in the settings menu where you can see various stats keepin...

I've finished another major phase of development: editing. I'll still do quite a bit more before the official release and during final testing, but I spent a few focused play-throughs cleaning up what...

I’m currently working on a feature I’ve been planning to implement since the start of development, initially just because I thought it would be funny: Sad Sack Mode . The feature is a special sett...

I've finished a full draft of the game! Everything from the prologue to the end, including all of the different epilogues depending on player choices, is complete and functional for a current total of...

I hope you like reading words, because I've been writing a lot of them. My last progress update was when I hit the 200k word mark , and that felt like a big milestone, but now I'm looking at 257k. The...

Every time I talk to somebody about The Salt Keep, I find myself a little uncertain as to how to describe it. It’s not so much that it’s hard to explain – I think it’s conceptually pretty stra...

I've been working on this game for a long time, on and off since somewhere around 2018, then ramping up in 2021. I didn't talk about it publicly until I posted this demo, but once I did that, maintain...