Pyrite
You are a merchant on a desperate journey to a starving kingdom. The kingdom’s food stores are running out, and without salt, what little food remains cannot be preserved. Your task is simple: collect as much salt as you can and deliver it to the kingdom before it is too late.

But along the way, you discover something else .... gold.

Lots of it.

Salt can save lives. Gold can make you rich.

As you travel through dangerous ruins, flooded paths, enemies, and obstacles, you will constantly have to decide what is worth spending and what is worth saving. Salt can help you survive, defeat enemies, and cross water, but every grain you use is one less grain that reaches the kingdom. Gold can also help you overcome obstacles and bribe your way past danger  but the more gold you chase, the more you risk losing sight of why you started the journey.

Will you take advantage of a dying kingdom and leave with as much gold as you can?

Or will you become the last person standing between hunger and survival?

You have a choice: save yourself, get rich, or save a kingdom.

Your choices throughout the journey determine how the story ends.

CONTROLS

Control	Action
Arrow Keys / WASD	Turn and move
Z	Gold action / interact with gold
X	Salt action
Q / Backspace	Rewind one action
R	Restart the current level
Esc	Return to menu
Enter / Space / Z	Continue dialogue and menus

Quick Game Mechanic overview
1. Gold — Z

• Pick up gold.
• Place gold on water to make a safe path.
• Pick placed gold back up.
• Bribe enemies with gold.

Bribe: Stand next to an enemy that is not facing you and press Z. One gold is used and the enemy runs away.

If the enemy is facing you, you die.

2. Salt — X

• Throw salt at enemies.
• Place salt on water to cross it.
• Push enemies onto salt to kill them.

Kill: Stand next to an enemy that is not facing you and press X. One salt is used.

3. Salt + Water

Press X next to water to turn it into temporary solid ground.

Once you walk off it, the salt dissolves and it becomes water again.

Every salt you use is one less salt for the kingdom.

4. Gold + Water

Press Z next to water to place a gold plate.

Gold plates stay in place and can be picked up again later.