About the Game
WELCOME TO SALTY HOUNDS!
SALTY HOUNDS is an open-world dating sim in which you will create your own love story.
(*Please find the streaming guide at the bottom)
LOVE INTERESTS
The love interests have their own daily schedules, preferences and secrets that wait to be unraveled.
GAMEPLAY
After your father's accident, you take charge of Salty Hounds, a small bodyguard agency. Meet your love interests and win their hearts through many daily encounters, special events and romantic dates. Enjoy a romantic life in a living and breathing open-world city featuring a fully realized night / day cycle.
Find the love interests, talk to them, learn about them and build up your relationship over time. As you make friends with them and gain their trust, you will unlock new events and romantic dialogues.
An immersive world and smoothly animated characters in high-quality pixel art
Many beautiful hand-painted illustrations and character artworks
Many voiced contents (more will be added), recorded by famous Korean VAs
Dynamic dialogues with the NPCs that change with your affection level and other stats
Enjoy random encounters throughout the city and activities to raise your skills
Your Lovers
Fall in love with five unique characters, each with their own charm!
♥ Noru, the Chief Bodyguard
"I don't remember us ever being that close."
An aloof loner that borders on unsociable, but an excellent bodyguard in the field. Despite being a childhood friend of yours, he doesn't seem comfortable with you around.
♥ Seha, the Head of a Rival Company
"Is that really the sorta thing you should be asking your 'rival'?"
The young but capable head of the rival company, 'Haeryang Securities'. Both gentle and ruthless at will, he is a foe to be reckoned with.
♥ Taemin, the Cheerful Bodyguard
"What? Triple overtime pay? Be there in a second!"
A playful and suave bodyguard with soft but powerful leadership. You've come to accept his free spirit, but with that he'd at least wear a tie to work.
♥ Yujin, the Crime Investigator
"Now is the time to exercise your right to remain silent."
A capable crime investigator, set out to create a world without injustice. He used to give you private lessons, but that was a long time ago.
♥ Junho, the Gullible Bodyguard
"Really? You don't deduct hot water from my paycheck?"
A gullible bodyguard working for a shady security agency, getting ripped off on a daily basis. Maybe you should help him out?
STREAMING GUIDE:
To prevent story spoilers, we'd like to ask you to limit streams to content up to Affection LV 1 ~ 2 for each character!
Kindly include 'Early Access' in your title and a link to our Steam page.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
We've adjusted the requirements for the good ending in Seha's route, which had been too difficult to achieve.
The 3 endings now more naturally reflect the choices you make in the later part of the story.
※ These changes apply only when you enter the Affection Level 5 section of the story after this update.
If you encounter a bug while playing or have any feedback, please let us know through our Google Form. Thank you!
This update makes weekday work sequences faster and easier to control, improves keyboard and gamepad support for weekly planning, and keeps the final message or call on screen until you confirm.
\[Quality-of-Life Improvements]
Weekday Hold-to-Skip: From Monday through Friday, hold the Confirm button for one second to display dialogue instantly and advance it at 0.2-second intervals. Movement, character animations, screen fades, and date transitions play at 4× speed, and return to normal as soon as you release the button.
Important Event Safeguard: Hold-to-Skip automatically stops before a special event begins so you do not miss its opening dialogue. Release the Confirm button and hold it again to resume skipping.
Message and Call Completion: The final message in text and phone events now remains on screen instead of closing automatically. Press Confirm once more after the event finishes to close it.
\[Keyboard and Gamepad Support]
Weekly Schedule Controls: The Sunday planning screen can now be completed entirely with a keyboard or gamepad, including selecting work assignments, undoing the previous selection, starting the finished schedule, and confirming it.
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If you're enjoying <Salty Hounds>, please visit the Steam store page and leave us a rating and review!
Even a single warm review from you means more than anything to a small indie development team like ours and gives us tremendous encouragement.
If you encounter a bug while playing or have feedback to share, please let us know through our Google Form. Thank you.
Salty Hounds v0.94.3 Patch Notes
This update improves the quality of Thai text rendering and enhances overall memory efficiency and system stability for smoother gameplay.
\[Localization Improvements]
Improved Thai Translation Quality: We actively incorporated player feedback and refined several expressions—including colloquial phrasing and honorifics—to sound more natural.
Improved Thai Font Rendering: Updated the font so vowels and tone marks appear more clearly.
Status Tooltip Language Sync: Fixed the description text for character status icons, including Fatigue and Affection, so it now displays correctly in the selected language.
Adjusted English Text Spacing: Fixed an issue that caused excessive spacing after apostrophes in some English text.
\[Performance and Stability Optimizations]
Story Memory Optimization: Reduced memory usage during story progression, greatly lowering the risk of the game being forced to close because of memory issues.
NPC System Optimization: Improved the efficiency of the system that spawns NPCs according to the time of day, reducing the overall load on your device.
❤️ Support the Development Team with a Steam Review!
If you're enjoying <Salty Hounds>, please visit the Steam store page and leave us a rating and review!
Even a single warm review from you means more than anything to a small indie development team like ours and gives us tremendous encouragement.
If you encounter a bug while playing or have feedback to share, please let us know through our Google Form. Thank you.
System Adjustments
NPC Schedule Pattern Update:
The NPC daily routine system has been more optimized. This adjustment ensures that characters follow a more consistent and predictable schedule throughout the day, providing a more stable gameplay experience.Optimization of Encounter Rates:
We have removed outdated legacy data and internal configuration files that caused NPCs to appear with unnatural frequency.
This change restores NPC encounter rates to their intended design, making each interaction feel more organic.
UI / Minimap Adjustments
Minimap Icon Visibility: During morning hours, character icons will no longer be displayed on the minimap while they are at their respective homes.
Previously, icons were shown to indicate their location, but we have removed them to prevent potential confusion during navigation.Example: For instance, Yujin works late night shifts (even on weekends), so he rests at home in the morning and doesn't appear on the minimap.
If you encounter any bugs or issues while playing, please let us know through this Google form. Thank you for your support.
A bug that (sometimes) occurred when trying to progress to Seha's affection level 3, caused by a conflict between a specific trigger condition and internal code settings, has been resolved.
You should now be able to properly progress to Seha's affection level 3 and enjoy the subsequent stories, including the bar date.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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If you encounter any bugs or issues while playing, please let us know through this Google form.
Thank you for your support.
- Fixed a reported bug in Seha's bar-related phone call event at Affection Level 3.
- Further polished the English and Chinese translations for Seha's bar-related phone call event at Affection Level 3.
If you encounter any bugs or issues while playing, please let us know through this Google form.
Thank you for your support.
- Fixed major bugs related to the phone call events, ensuring the revamped call function now operates normally again
- Corrected an issue where Junho, who hasn't been recruited yet, would appear when consuming foods at the book cafe
- Resolved a game crash bug that occurred after the Seha event when receiving specific messages at the shooting range
- Fixed an issue where character bugs would occasionally occur during interactions with Junho before his recruitment
- Addressed a bug that allowed players to give gifts to Junho even before recruiting him
- Preparing updates for dating, weekday work events, and ending content.
If you encounter any bugs or issues while playing, please let us know through this Google form.
Thank you for your support.
- Fixed a bug where conversation counts were sometimes added during conversations with Noru.
- Fixed a bug related to Yujin's touch conversation.
- Fixed minor bugs reported so far.
- Preparing updates for dating, weekday work events, and ending content.
If you encounter any bugs or issues while playing, please let us know through this Google form.
Thank you for your support.
- Fixed a significant portion of minor bugs reported so far.
- Fixed a bug where a "not enough time" message would appear.
- Further reduced the time consumed by various actions.
- Reduced the skill points consumed by the Fishing action.
- Preparing for the next content update.
If you encounter any bugs or issues while playing, please let us know through this Google form.
Thank you for your support.
- Fixed a few known bugs with Junho's new dating events at the theater and riverside.
- Fixed minor issues with Junho's story, related to condition checks.
The 0.86 Hotfix 2 patch is online.
we have addressed the freezing issue that happened when you were trying to enter the theater after meeting Junho on a date.
We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for bringing it to our attention.
We apologize and thank you for the bug report.
Current Release
Build 25876929
Uploaded Oct 12, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
SaltyHounds.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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