Move the crew
Assign individual companions to the helm, guns, sickbay and bilge. Moving someone to safety or damage control means leaving another job short-handed.
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SALT & OATH 盐与誓
Six companions. One battered ship. A way home through the black tide.
Salt & Oath is a real-time ship crew management game you can pause to give orders. Captain Annie and five companions must carry timber and medicine back to Lantern Bay through a black-tide blockade.
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The voyage
The cargo has a destination. So does every person aboard.
A storm has left Lantern Bay short of timber, medicine and ship parts. Six companions have found the supplies, but a black-tide blockade lies between them and home. Their patched-up vessel is the only way through.
At your command
Keep the ship working while the sea tries to take it apart.
Read the incoming fire
Enemy ships announce their target. Pause to give orders, pull crew away from a threatened cabin, then choose whether to strike the hull or suppress its guns.
Build between battles
Use spoils at port to mend the hull, train a specialist, improve a room or expand the vessel. Battle experience offers three choices that shape the rest of the run.
A run with consequences
What survives one battle sails into the next.
Hull damage, injuries, crew growth and the abilities you choose carry across a six-battle homeward voyage. Your ship can grow from four cramped compartments into a larger working vessel, but every new space needs people and protection.
- Command
- Real-time with pause
- Starting crew
- Six companions
- Voyage
- Six battles
- Platform
- Desktop and mobile browser
How the ship works
A tactical model of a ship under fire.
The game tracks the crew and the jobs they perform inside one vessel. Where you send someone changes what the ship can do next.
What does Salt & Oath simulate?
Crew travel between compartments, station output, cannon loading, enemy targeting, hull damage, fire, flooding, treatment and repairs all affect real-time battles. You can pause to issue orders.
Is it a sailing simulator?
The voyage uses route choices and shipboard tactics. There are no manual sail-trim controls or continuous sailing physics; the decisions happen in battle and at port.
Can I build my own ship?
At port you can extend the hull and improve working rooms that affect combat. The separate modular ship lab lets you arrange ship parts and export an image; its display figures are independent from your voyage save.
SALT & OATH
Bring everyone home.
Start with an old ship and a crew who already trust one another. The next order is yours.
Progress is saved in this browser by the game.