v0.1.1 Latest
A small fix, the same summer
- Fixed: an extra hand in one of Elena's beach scenes
- Saves from 0.1.0 load as before
A free 18+ sandbox dating sim
One summer in a seaside town, two women, and ninety-two days to save a café.
The summer
You're twenty-two, a junior developer with a remote job, two suitcases and a bank account that's already nervous. Your new loft sits above Low Tide, the café-bar run by Elena: precise, unsmiling, your landlady. She needs to repay the bank by the end of August, or lose the building to a hotel chain.
Across the hall lives Maya, a photographer who talks faster than she thinks, calls you "neighbour" like it's a nickname, and is about to bet everything on one exhibition at the lighthouse.
Every day you choose where to go and who to see, and the story moves when you've earned it. What they tell you comes back later as a question.
Elena
Runs Low Tide. Short answers, exact change, a deadline she doesn't talk about. Questions from her sound like orders.
Maya
Photographer across the hall. Starts three sentences at once, finishes none of them, and has one shot at the Lighthouse Show.
Screenshots
What's in the game
Two full routes
Elena and Maya each have their own finale and epilogue. Whether Low Tide survives is up to you.
A town with a calendar
Rent every Monday, a job, shifts at the bar, and a deadline that doesn't move.
No grind
The Notes app always says what unlocks the next scene, the map shows where everyone is, and every mini-game has an auto button.
Details worth remembering
What you learn about them comes back later, and getting it wrong costs you.
A phone that matters
Chats, photos they send you, and conversations you can start yourself.
Side stories
Open mic nights, a town wedding, running at dawn, a Sunday pot, and locals with opinions.
Download
Download v0.1.1 on itch.io
Free. itch.io lets you leave an optional donation; nobody has to pay.
Latest release
Extract the zip and run Saltmere.exe (Windows), Saltmere.sh (Linux) or Saltmere.app (Mac). Saves carry over between versions.
A note from me
Saltmere's art is made with AI tools. The story, the characters and the writing are mine. I've wanted to make a sandbox Ren'Py game for a long time, and this is it.
Because the art is AI-made, Saltmere will always be free: every version, the whole game, for everyone on release day. If you enjoy it and want to help me keep going, you can support it on Patreon or SubscribeStar. It's optional, and I'm grateful for every bit of it.