Order Automatica vs SALT PILGRIM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Order Automatica
Engage in strategic, automated battles on a compact grid. Plan your unit placements and tile manipulations to create devastating chain reactions against demonic foes. Master deep gameplay mechanics for endless tactical possibilities.
- Automated battles
- 3x3 ritual grid
- Unit positioning
- Tile manipulation
- Synergy building
- Relic combinations
- Challenging encounters
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Order Automatica is a dark tactical roguelite where automated battles are won before they even begin. Build deadly synergies on a small 3x3 ritual grid, position your units carefully, manipulate tiles, and prepare for brutal encounters against demonic enemies. Every move matters. What looks simple quickly becomes a deep game of: - positioning, - timing, - unit merging, - tile effects, - relic combinations, - curses, - and run-breaking synergies. Enemies attack automatically, but victory depends entirely on your planning. One clever setup can trigger devastating chain reactions. One mistake can end an entire run. Experiment with wildly different builds, adapt to unpredictable encounters, and discover strategies that completely change how the game is played. A small board. Endless possibilities. Like chess with demons.
SALT PILGRIM
Embark on a challenging roguelike journey through a desert world where water is currency and faith. Engage in deckbuilding combat, make impactful choices that shape the world's memory of you, and explore diverse environments. A separate mode allows for exploration and home expansion.
- Deckbuilding combat with poker-style hands
- World remembers player actions and factions react
- Procedurally generated 20-floor pilgrimage
- Separate exploration and home-building mode
- Permanent perks carry over after death
- 1-bit pixel art graphics
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SALT PILGRIM is a 1-bit world roguelike. A thousand years after the old world's reactors melted and the sea died, you walk Tuzkum, a salt desert where water is money, faith and law. The world remembers what you do, and combat is deckbuilding. A WORLD THAT REMEMBERS • Eight factions hold their own grudges and alliances. Kill enough of their people and they send avengers after you. Earn their trust and they talk to you instead of attacking, and their shops charge you less. • Share water with a faction's legend to win its favor. Its rivals will trust you less. • Draw water in secret or open the priests' valves, and your name goes on the heresy register. Let it grow, and the city guard and the priests' enforcers come looking for you. • Every person and animal answers when you tap them. Strike first in front of a witness, and that witness will speak to you differently. • The pilgrims before you leave traces. A singer at the caravanserai sings of your last pilgrim, a gravestone marks where they fell, and the enemy that killed them waits deeper down, wearing a new title. A PILGRIMAGE OF TWENTY FLOORS • Leave your home village by the stairs. Go down through ruins, dead canals, caravan roads and a ship graveyard, then climb out into a holy city where water is handed out at the valve, one bowl at a time. • Choose the road between floors. A 2×2 boss guards every fifth floor. Beat the twentieth to finish the pilgrimage; the road goes on past it. • Start as one of seven callings, each with its own deck and signature skill. When you fall, the salt altar keeps what you earned as permanent perks. WANDER • A separate mode: leave your yurt and walk a land map of villages, caravanserais, ruins and hidden lakes, with dungeons beneath. You grow by discovering, not by killing. • Farm, furnish and expand your home, and keep animals you can ride. Days go by, and the groups you clear out are replaced a few days later. DECKBUILDING COMBAT • Draw up to five cards, pick any of them and play them together as one poker-style hand. Damage is chips × mult. • Cards you don't play stay in your hand: take a hit now and build a bigger hand for the next turn. Enemies show what they are about to do. • Earn cards, relics, tonics and mutations on the road. Remove and upgrade cards to shape your deck. • Every frame is drawn in 12×12 one-bit tiles. • English, Korean, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). • Cloud save through iCloud: continue on another device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SALT PILGRIM at 4.6 against Order Automatica's 4.2. SALT PILGRIM also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and review sentiment (80% vs 65%). Order Automatica's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Order Automatica costs $5.99 and SALT PILGRIM $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SALT PILGRIM holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 41 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Order Automatica's written reviews are positive against 80% of SALT PILGRIM's.
Order Automatica ships an update every 2 weeks, SALT PILGRIM every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Order Automatica | SALT PILGRIM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (27 ratings) | 4.6 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 41 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #15 | #7 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 315 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pixel Perfect Dude S.A. | YUNWOO NAM |
Customer experience
Order Automatica
SALT PILGRIM
In-app purchases
Order Automatica
No in-app purchases
SALT PILGRIM
No in-app purchases
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