# Salt Pilgrim: Water Returned — Nations rise, fall. You roam.

> Nations rise, fall. You roam. (iPhone/iPad app by YUNWOO NAM.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/salt-pilgrim-water-returned/id6819164973 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [YUNWOO NAM](https://appshunter.io/developer/1400903851)
- Category: Games, Adventure, Role Playing
- Price: $1.99
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 5 MB
- Languages: Korean, American English
- Released: 2026-10-10
- Data updated: 2026-10-14

## What is Salt Pilgrim?

Salt Pilgrim: The Water Returned is a 1-bit text RPG where the whole world is one folder tree.

On a screen modeled on an old DOS file manager, you enter folders to travel, delete files to fight, and talk to the people who live in them. In Tuzkum, where the water came back after a thousand years, caravans, prices, factions and wars run on their own, with or without you.

TUZKUM, THE LAND WHERE THE WATER CAME BACK
A generation ago, water returned to a sea that had lain dry for a thousand years. The water runs clear, but the world is still unsettled. Tribes quarrel over new pastures and waterways, robbers haunt the roads, and monsters live in the old ruins and tunnels. You are a pilgrim who has just woken up in a yurt.

PLACES ARE FOLDERS, PEOPLE AND THINGS ARE FILES
• Enter a folder to go there. Delete a monster's file to fight it.
• Permissions (rwx) are the rules. Files with an x attack first, and a boss without w is sealed.
• Cast rm -f to shred and fsck to repair. Spells like chmod and grep reveal hidden folders and strip bosses of their permissions.
• Talk, trade, steal. People remember what you did.

A WORLD THAT KEEPS BUSY WITHOUT YOU
• Caravans come and go and prices rise and fall. More raids mean shortages, and shortages mean unrest.
• Factions feud, go to war and make truces, and every morning the newspaper reports it.
• Settlements are founded, grow and fall into ruin, and you can raise the ruins again.
• Buy a raft, a rowboat or a sailboat and follow the river to the islands and the Bitter Sea. No boat that sailed past the horizon has ever come back.

CRAFTING, FORGING AND DEATH
• Gather materials, process them at workshops, then craft and forge your gear.
• When you die, the screen collapses into a core dump and rewinds you back to your feet. Your bag and half your kese stay behind in a Remains folder.

MADE FOR TOUCH
• Swipe or drag up and down to move the cursor. Swipe right to enter, left to go back.
• Double-tap any empty spot to run the highlighted file.
• Plays in portrait or landscape, with adjustable text size.
• Fully playable in English and Korean.

One purchase. No ads, no in-app purchases, no account, no tracking. Plays offline.

Latin font: PxPlus IBM VGA 8x16 by VileR (int10h.org), CC BY-SA 4.0
Korean font: NeoDunggeunmo by Eunbin Jeong, SIL Open Font License 1.1
Tiles: Urizen OneBit by vurmux, CC0

## Chart rankings

- #87 in Top Paid · Adventure (US App Store)
- #42 in Top Paid · Role Playing (US App Store)

## Is Salt Pilgrim safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Salt Pilgrim.

## Is Salt Pilgrim legit?

Salt Pilgrim: Water Returned appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Salt Pilgrim is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.3 — 2026-10-12

• Double-tapping your own items in your remains folder or on the ground now picks them up into your bag. Before, a potion was drunk or food eaten on the spot.
• Potions in your bag are still drunk on double-tap, and items stored in your home vault, rooms or camps are still used in place.
• Your saves carry over.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-12

• 더 살아 있는 세상: 비와 가뭄, 고장마다 오르내리는 물 수위, 풀밭 · 짐승 떼 · 맹수, 숲과 광맥, 세력의 무장과 기세, 사람들의 이주가 플레이어와 상관없이 흘러갑니다.
• 내가 한 일이 세상을 바꿉니다: 무기를 판 고장의 세력은 무장하고, 장신구는 기세를 누그러뜨립니다. 기부로 우물을 파고, 선동이 쌓이면 작은 고장이 떨어져 나갈 수도 있습니다.
• 주민마다 성향과 연이 있어, 같은 전쟁 · 가뭄을 두고도 서로 다른 말을 합니다.
• 새 시스템: 이름 모를 유물 감정(file.sh 주문 · 무당 켄보타), 냄비와 화덕 요리, 젖음 · 불 · 얼음, 내 행적을 노래하는 당신의_이야기.txt · 당신의_기록.txt.
• 경제: 무기 · 방어구 값이 제자리를 찾고, 상점 진열대와 물건 값이 그 고장 사정을 따릅니다. 새 의뢰 "보급: 무기 N점".
• 가방 정렬(이름순 · 최근순)과 여러 버그 수정.
• 세이브는 그대로 이어집니다.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-10

No release notes.

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