Comparison

BTFields Premium vs Salt Crown

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

Head to head
About

BTFields Premium

Unlock the full experience of a strategic game with no advertisements or user tracking. This premium version offers complete access to all game features and content.

Highlights
  • Full access to all content
  • No advertisements
  • No user tracking
  • Premium experience
Features
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Premium version of BTFields with full access, no ads, and no tracking. BTFields brings together four strategy games: tactical missions on a hex grid, turn-based World War II campaigns, sci-fi battles on a distant planet, and a 19-mission sci-fi hex campaign. New to BTFields? Try the ad-supported BTFields: Strategy Battles to experience the same core gameplay before choosing Premium.

About

Salt Crown

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You are the Warden of Solnitsa, a salt-mine keep, on the Night the fire is low. The Host outside is bound by the same law that binds you. Nothing crosses a threshold uninvited. Nothing takes what is not owed. A name given freely is a claim. So they do not storm the walls. They stand in the dark and wait for you to break the law first โ€” and you will, because the fire needs feeding, and the granary needs opening, and somebody is knocking politely at the gate wearing a face you know. Twelve Watches until dawn. Three bodies. One purse. Salt Crown is FTL's crew triage rebuilt as a castle under siege: a folk-horror roguelike played across a lit cross-section of the keep, one room at a time, until the Night ends or you do. EVERYTHING IS A BODY IN A ROOM No ability bars. No cooldowns. If nobody walks to the gate, nobody holds the gate. Each defender has Vigor, Hands and Nerve, and every order costs the time it takes to cross the castle. THE TALLY IS A BILL, NOT A TIMER The Host writes down what it is owed, and every mark is something you did โ€” a door opened, a guest invited, a name given away. At three marks they come sooner. At twelve, the Crowning. A bill is a thing you can argue with. A timer is not. ONE PURSE, THREE HUNGERS Chime buys wards, Chime feeds the fire, Chime pays people, and it will not do all three. Ember is the run clock and it burns whether or not you are looking at it. The dawn screen tells you exactly where it went. FOLKLORE LAW IS THE RULE SYSTEM Guest-right, threshold-law, name-law. Salt in the mouth is a truth test. The polite thing at the gate is a mechanic, not a mood. GLANCEABLE, BRUTAL, INSTANTLY REPEATABLE The whole castle is one screen. Pause is always a tap away. A Night runs fifteen to twenty-five minutes; losing takes rather less, and starting again takes seconds. WHAT IS IN IT โ€ข 41 hand-written event cards โ€” every word original โ€ข Eight rooms, three besieging Hosts, one hearth โ€ข A deterministic simulation: the same seed is the same Night, every time โ€ข Landscape, one-thumb controls, built for phone and iPad alike โ€ข Plays fully offline โ€” nothing to download, nothing to log into โ€ข No ads, no tracking, no accounts, no in-app purchases; the game saves on your device Keep the fire. Keep the law. Keep the count. Salt Crown's pixel art is generated with Pixellab (AI image generation) against a hand-built style specification, then curated and integrated by hand. All design, code and writing is original work by Arkynate.

Screenshots

BTFields Premium3 screens
Salt Crown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Salt Crown at Free against BTFields Premium's $0.99. Salt Crown also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Salt Crown is free to download; BTFields Premium costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BTFields Premium ships an update every 3 months, Salt Crown every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
BTFields Premium versus Salt Crown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBTFields PremiumSalt Crown
Price$0.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size176 MB4 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJianfeng WuPaolo Javier

In-app purchases

None

BTFields Premium

No in-app purchases

None

Salt Crown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BTFields Premium free?
BTFields Premium costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Salt Crown free?
Salt Crown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BTFields Premium or Salt Crown have ads?
Neither BTFields Premium nor Salt Crown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BTFields Premium or Salt Crown?
BTFields Premium ships an update every 3 months, and Salt Crown every 6 days. Most recently, BTFields Premium was updated on November 6, 2026 and Salt Crown on October 31, 2026.

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