Town of Salem
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 27.3h
- Value
- $0.18/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Inspired by the party games Werewolf and Mafia, Town of Salem is a game of murder, mystery and deception.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.69. That was June 2022. 63 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 33 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 27 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Feign ($4.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Town of Salem 2 (free, scores 20).
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 1,432 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.
The drop-off
83% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
117 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
If you ever meet a gamer and they tell you they played Town of Salem take everything that they say with a grain of salt because they are NOT to be trusted
this game is extremely fun assuming it is at all active anymore, worth the $5 however it is really sad to see the downfall of the popularity of this game
I want to make sure as many people see this situation going on with a ToS moderator, DJF, since the other mods and DB refuse to handle it. This is a review from a different person on ToS2, but it sums up the issue: "I love this game. Really, I do. But I cannot in good conscience recommend this game with a groomer moderator still allowed on board. This moderator has additionally sent invasive messages to numerous...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Town of Salem scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/334230/town-of-salemThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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