Salt and Soil

A Frontier Family Sim · Coming soon

Build a homestead. Keep a family together. Leave them something worth inheriting.

Single-player · PC

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Three centuries. One family.

Watch the world change around the people who must live through it.

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History is often told through presidents, wars, and borders. Salt and Soil asks what it felt like for one ordinary household to live beneath them.

Your family chronicle

A life measured in harvests, choices, and generations.

A minimalist old-school roguelite colony sim set on the changing American frontier, 1609–1900.

The Harrow family homestead on the 1609 frontier map

Begin with little

One homestead. One family. Three centuries.

Farm, raise livestock, build workshops, trade, and stretch scarce supplies and labor—and face the consequences when relatives refuse to follow the plan.

A family council presents three difficult choices

Decide together

Every year ends with a family council.

Hunger or surplus, debt or growth, births, deaths, marriages, quarrels, alliances, threats, and hard-won victories become personal dilemmas. Your choices shape who inherits and what the family remembers.

The homestead specialization tree with farms, workshops, livestock, and trade

Build for the next generation

Build a ranch that can outlive you.

Balance food, wood, metal, money, tools, goods, livestock, housing, buildings, and labor. A good year expands the ranch. A bad one demands sacrifices the family may remember for decades.

The Harrow family reaches California as the frontier changes

Live beneath history

History reaches the household.

Resource shortages, migration, shifting borders, new settlements, market swings, local conflicts, and new dangers reach your fields and your table. Trade, cooperate, negotiate—or face conflict.

The story begins at home

Leave the next generation something worth inheriting.

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