Comparison

Purple Friday vs The Salt Keep

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Purple Friday

Embark on an immersive audio adventure game that uses binaural audio and simple swipe gestures to explore diverse environments. Experience a thrilling journey with a professional voice cast and over 700 sound assets, designed for accessibility and enjoyment by all players.

Highlights
  • Binaural audio for immersive soundscapes
  • Intuitive swipe gesture controls
  • Professional voice cast
  • Over 700 sound assets
  • Accessible for visually impaired players
  • Diverse explorable environments
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Welcome to Purple Friday, the immersive mobile audio game adventure that will take you on a thrilling journey through sound! Get ready to embark on an unforgettable experience that will transport you to a world of mystery, danger, and excitement. With an emphasis on audio, Purple Friday is the perfect game for users who are blind sighted or vision impaired, as it allows them to enjoy the game just as much as sighted players. With Purple Friday, you'll get to experience the cutting-edge technology of binaural audio, which simulates sound as it would be heard in real life, creating a truly immersive experience that will make you feel like you're right in the heart of the action. This means you'll be able to hear every creak, every whisper, every footstep, and every breath in stunning, crystal-clear detail. But that's not all – we've also made sure that interacting with the game is a breeze. With simple swipe gestures, you'll be able to explore the rich and detailed environments, uncover hidden clues and objects, and interact with the game's cast of characters in a way that feels natural and intuitive. Speaking of characters, Purple Friday features a professional voice cast that brings the game's world to life with their incredible performances. From the mysterious femme fatale to the quirky sidekick, every character is fully realized and voiced with the utmost care and attention to detail, making them feel like real people that you'll come to care about throughout your journey. And with over 700 sound assets at your fingertips, you'll be able to immerse yourself in the rich and detailed worlds of Purple Friday like never before. From exploring an isolated mysterious island, climbing to the snowy top of the mountain, delving inside the belly of a whale, or venturing to a place between time and space, every environment is meticulously crafted to transport you to a new and exciting location. And with binaural audio technology, you'll feel like you're right there in the middle of the action, with every sound bringing the game's world to life in stunning, crystal-clear detail. So what are you waiting for? Download Purple Friday now and get ready to experience an audio adventure like no other. With its cutting-edge technology, intuitive controls, professional voice cast, and stunning sound design, this is a game that you won't want to miss. Get ready to put on your headphones and lose yourself in the immersive world of Purple Friday!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Purple Friday4 screens
The Salt Keep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Salt Keep at 4.7 against Purple Friday's 4.0. The Salt Keep also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Purple Friday's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Purple Friday costs $2.99 and The Salt Keep $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Salt Keep holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Purple Friday's written reviews are positive against 80% of The Salt Keep's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Purple Friday ships an update every 2 weeks, The Salt Keep fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Purple Friday versus The Salt Keep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPurple FridayThe Salt Keep
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.0 (5 ratings)4.7 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings514 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size388 MB6 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperNEEEU Spaces GmbHSmall Gray Games LLC

Customer experience

Purple Friday

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative18.2%

The Salt Keep

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Purple Friday

No in-app purchases

None

The Salt Keep

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Purple Friday free?
Purple Friday costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Salt Keep free?
The Salt Keep costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Purple Friday or The Salt Keep?
The Salt Keep is rated higher. Purple Friday averages 4.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while The Salt Keep averages 4.7 from 14 ratings.
Do Purple Friday or The Salt Keep have ads?
Neither Purple Friday nor The Salt Keep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Purple Friday or The Salt Keep?
Purple Friday ships an update every 2 weeks, and The Salt Keep fortnightly. Most recently, Purple Friday was updated on October 22, 2026 and The Salt Keep on October 30, 2026.

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