Town of Salem
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99. Typically $1.69 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour
- $0.18/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 36,253
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 27.3h
- To 100%
- 183.2h 6.7x the story
- Achievements
- 361
Price and sales
- Sales
- 64 on record
- Typical cut
- 33% off
- Steam low
- $1.69 June 2022
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 152 now
- Cheaper than
- 64% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 92% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
64 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 33 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Feign ($2.74, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats MINDNIGHT (free, scores 62).
More about Town of Salem
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 1,429 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 27.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 183, 6.7 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.49 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It might have been good in the past, I got into it through hype by friends, but I never really got it despite trying. currently came back to the game to see how it is, but the servers are filled with rude people, who just get toxic if things dont go their way. its an un monitored game with a few consistent throwers. their are too many neesh achievments, but I mainly have a problem with the system of getting...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
2233 hours on this account since 2020 and over 400 hours on my first account since 2018. It used to be a good social deduction game during 2018-2021 before the playerbase started shrinking. Nowadays the community is the worst I've ever seen. There will always be players in games that reghunt you because of your previous games, out the mafia team Day 1, spam slurs or heavily insult you because of your playstyle...
I just wanted to flex my hours on this game with this review. Also leavers need to be punished more and moderation of chat should be heavier
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Inspired by the party games Werewolf and Mafia, Town of Salem is a game of murder, mystery and deception.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Town of Salem scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/334230/town-of-salemReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.