Games Like Salt and Sacrifice (2026)

Shared: Grappling Hook Traversal

Parkour across a quarantined city by day, then pray you make it to a safe house before the Volatiles clock in. Ten years on, Dying Light still does the day-night survival loop better than almost anything else in the genre.

Shared: tier:aaa

Gorgeous Ming Dynasty soulslike with some of the genre's most flexible build systems - but PC players should know the optimization is rough and late-game balance spikes hard.

Shared: tier:aaa

A five-person studio built a Tarkov parody that somehow outgrew the joke. If you've ever wanted extraction-shooter tension without a lobby full of strangers hunting you, this is the most accessible version of that feeling you'll find.

Shared: tier:aaa

Survival crafting that actually respects your time: no hunger death spirals, Souls-lite combat with a parry that feels earned, and a voxel world worth losing a weekend inside.

Shared: Grappling Hook Traversal

FromSoftware stripped out the build variety and handed you one katana. If you can handle that trade, what remains might be the sharpest action combat ever put in a video game.