FEER vs The Salt Keep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FEER
Navigate a challenging world shrouded in fog, avoiding zombies and ravens while collecting light. Utilize power-ups to aid your survival and compete with friends on global leaderboards. Designed for accessibility, this game offers an engaging experience for all players.
- Navigate through fog and obstacles
- Utilize power-ups like weapons and shields
- Compete on global leaderboards
- Fully accessible with VoiceOver
- Save fairies to maintain light
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CHALLENGE FOR THE SENSES Dense fog will make it hard to see the Zombies. Slide underneath the Ravens and jump over the Zombies, trying to grasp your feet. But save the fairies or you will run blind and have to run in the dark. Only those with the best ears survive in this dark world and can save the fairies’ light. POWERUPS WILL HELP YOU Use the Weapon to shoot the Zombies into pieces. Take the Boost to travel fast forward in high speed. Collect twice the lights with the Light Doubler or use the Shield to protect you from your enemies. HIGHSCORE AND FRIENDS LIST Post your score to the global Leader board or share it via social media. Invite and add friends to your personal list for group competitions. DESIGNED FOR VOICEOVER FEER is made from the scratch to be fully accessible with VoiceOver and is the first endless runner for visual impaired and sighted gamers at equal rights. All screens are fully accessible with the screenreader. Use the quick navigation to quickly jump between the headings. NO ADS, FULL ENDLESS GAME
The Salt Keep
Embark on a text-based adventure in a fantasy world where a struggling merchant uncovers a dangerous mystery. Make choices, collect items, and level up your character to navigate a world shaped by industrial decline and feudalism.
- Text-based interactive fiction
- Choose Your Own Adventure mechanics
- RPG elements with leveling
- Item collection and equipment
- Percentage-based challenges
- NPC interaction
- Exploration of secrets and missable areas
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The Salt Keep is a text adventure (think interactive fiction with Choose Your Own Adventure and RPG mechanics) and should feel familiar to fans of classic gamebooks and fantasy fiction in general. - THE STORY - Set in a high fantasy world with low fantasy stakes, the character-driven story of The Salt Keep follows a struggling merchant named Doyle who stumbles into a life-or-death mystery. During the last legs of a months-long journey as a traveling salesman, Doyle stops in the seemingly deserted village of Cardwyke to meet a friend who has promised to help keep him financially afloat, but what he finds is even more dangerous than the crushing weight of debt. - THE SETTING - The world of The Salt Keep should be familiar to any fan of fantasy — it has breastplates, and swords, and other fun stuff like that — but is shaped by the vaguely industrial and creeping decline of feudalism. Sprawling merchant conglomerates and faceless business structures pull the levers of power as much as the dukes and knights. The world is meant to be both a reflection of traditional fantasy settings (the England-coded sword and sorcery and D&D-style locations we're used to) and an answer to some of their most frustrating tropes. It's not a world of prophesied heroes doing Great Man Theory or of grimdark anti-heroes exposing the essential evil of humanity, but of ordinary medieval schlubs trying to survive within alienating and oppressive political systems. In other words, it's not a world a character like Doyle has any hope or intention of changing; he only means to survive. - THE GAMEPLAY - The Salt Keep is a text-based game, so the action is described through text and the player navigates and makes choices via button inputs. Through these basic mechanics, you'll be able to: - Guide Doyle through the village and the towering keep that looms above it as he searches for a means of escape. - Collect items and discover their uses. - Equip gear to improve Doyle's ability scores. - Succeed or fail at percentage-based challenges. - Earn experience and level up based on those challenges. - Talk to and work with NPCs to make progress. - Uncover secrets and missable areas. - Risk grievous bodily harm. Despite the prevalence of choices and risks, there is no chance of death or dead-ends. The story always moves forward. In turn, you'll change the outcome of Doyle's story (as well as those of the NPCs) not just through the things you choose to do, but through the things you fail to do, and the things you choose to ignore. - THE DEMO - If you want to spend some time in the world of The Salt Keep before you commit, you can play a demo in the browser here: https://smallgraygames.itch.io/the-salt-keep The demo includes the prologue and first chapter of the game, and any progress you make can be transferred to the full version. - CONTACT - To be notified of updates on the game or future games, consider following on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/smallgraygames Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/smallgraygames Screenshots were created using screenshots.pro.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Salt Keep at none against FEER's 1. The Salt Keep also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months). FEER's advantage is ratings volume (187 vs 14) and review sentiment (93% vs 80%). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
FEER costs $3.99 and The Salt Keep $4.99 up front. FEER sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. The Salt Keep asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for FEER against 4.7 for The Salt Keep. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FEER has 187 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of FEER's written reviews are positive against 80% of The Salt Keep's.
FEER ships an update every 6 months, The Salt Keep fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FEER | The Salt Keep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (187 ratings) | 4.7 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.6% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 187 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 148 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Hansjoerg Mikesch | Alec Noller |
Customer experience
FEER
The Salt Keep
Bugs and requests
FEER
Reported bugs
3 issues- Quests not properly registering completion
- Lights being lost unexpectedly
- Occasional game freezes or crashes
Requested features
5 requests- Difficulty level settings
- Additional environmental themes (e.g. castle, bank)
- Ability to replay tutorials
- Multiplayer mode to run with friends
- Power-up shop to purchase upgrades with in-game currency
The Salt Keep
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FEER
- Theme Factory$1.99
The Salt Keep
No in-app purchases








