Stranded Deep vs Salt vs The Long Dark.

Stranded deep sucks... so very bad

The long dark has awesome atmosphere and is shaping up to be a brilliant game.

The Long Dark is great, and is in a decent playable state even tho it's still early access, also has a great mood to it.

Wow, there are 75% off coupons floating around for Salt. How the fuck did I miss out on this one?

Stranded Deep has the best graphics quality, but The Long Dark is the prettiest for me. I love the overall feel it gives. Although, in the end it's all about personal preference. Get Salt!

The Long Dark is the best right now, though that is largely due to its development status - its simply further along.

In time, I can see Stranded Deep becoming interesting, but as it stands there simply is not much to do. It lacks structure and coherence.
Don't know too much about Salt, but from what I've seen it doesn't stand up to The Long Dark.
If anything a game like "Subnautica" or "The Forest" may deserve consideration in this list, though much like Stranded Deep they aren't that necessarily 'polished' or 'structured'.

They are promising in their own right, but lack that certain touch that differentiates them from the others.
I also believe the atmosphere and artstyle do The Long Dark a lot of favours, the lack of animations and such in the other titles make them feel incomplete - by going for a stylized view instead The Long Dark circumvents that problem and allows focus on actual gameplay rather than mere aesthetics.

last time i saw a fairly similar post to this (though choices were not as good imo) i had pretty much voted for stranded deep, BUT thats only because i had not bought the long dark.. well.... i read others pretty much said long dark better then stranded deep so ofc i had to find out for myself =) i certainly had zero disappointment in buying the long dark... my vote has majorly changed from stranded deep (though better graphics is true) to the long dark (the ambient-like graphic style at first was a deterrent for me however it very rapidly grew on me after just minutes of gameplay) however both are extremely promising... i tried the salt demo (thankfully there is that option on that game) and that game maybe great but that type of graphics style i could not get behind at all honestly so i cannot really say much there..

also since neither are finished yet my vote still could change yet again, the developers roadmap on stranded deep seems quite nice, the never ending open world nature if mixed with multiplayer like it seems they plan to do could make it one of the best of all time... only time will tell though.

edit: fix typos & added the also..

I want all 3 but I'm watching Stranded Deep a lot closer because it's Aussie-developed as I understand it...

The Long Dark is the only one with "actual Survival" IMO

The main problem I have with all of these games is that potential buyers can't tell them apart. If I've got money burning a hole in my pocket, I want to know what kind of gaming experience I'm going to get with each one. None of the opinion threads I've read on SG have managed to accomplish this, yet. My best guess from everything that other people have said looks something like the following.

....................................Exploration........Crafting........Fighting.......Survival......CO-OP.....
Rust...........................................................X.................X................................X...........
The Forest............................X.....................X.................X...........................................
Salt......................................X....................X..................................X...............................
Stranded Deep......................X.....................X...........................................................................
The Long Dark......................X......................X..................................X...............................

I liked long dark more because it's more interesting being stranded in a snowy place. And the sound effects is also damn good especially when the wind howls.

I like both Stranded Deep and The Long Dark. I did not know about Salt. looks pretty cool, I will probably buy it today.

Stranded Deep has sharks. Nuff said.

Thanks for all the replies. This forum is more helpful than those extremists and fanboys on Steam community forums.

Some generic survival game versus some generic survival game versus some generic survival game (unhelpful post, but that's how I feel)

take don't starve. better than all of this games i think

Don't Starve or The Long Dark (it is really good and deep)... u will have to wait to see how much they develop Stranded Deep, but for now it doesnt have a real objective ... Salt it is also interesting but sometimes it glitches like CRAZY

save money. buy pet. Owl preferably if not then puppy n kitten.