Town of Salem

opened game, made account, got banned before even loading in, refunding

i love this game but lobbies without gamethrowers are rare

Quality game, mechanics are what you want them to be for this genre. No complaints!

Mods be banning people and not caring trying to force players to TOS2 which sucks.

This game is a fun interactive with direct connection to players.

It's still as fun as I used to play this on browser. It pains to be a medium though as most folks disconnect & won't finish the game.

Play this game if you are into politics. Basically what you do is lying and gas lighting someone. Highly recommended. 9/11

Such a fun game! Especially if you love the game Mafia

A good idea on paper, but almost every lobby is either filled with trolls or wannabe IRS agents. Instead of ruining the lives of middle class workers, though, they've decided to make each and every lobby of Town of Salem completely uninteresting. Everyone speaks in code and just kills you if you don't understand their prose, and nobody is willing to teach you because everyone in this game is unfriendly and seems to hate their life and everybody else's, too, much like the IRS.

most of the negative reviews are by bigots, this game has fine moderation and its only "strict" if you are spewing hate speech and other bigoted nonsense, maybe dont break the rules and you wont get banned? just a thought :)

Seriously, this game is great, bigots pop up from time to time but they get swiftly dealt with by moderation, its a great experience.

great great game

Great mind game that's somehow still active after many years of being out. Some people may call it "OG among us" but either way its way better than among us. 9/10

Great social deduction game!

Game is good, people are sheep. Build credibility early and people will follow-

Kidding (kinda). This game is great. I've always loved this game and keep coming back to it, I've played it for years. If you enjoy social deduction this is def for you. There's a learning curve (as there is for all games) but once you get over learning what every role does, it's so fun to use your knowledge to be deceptive. Every game is different and all endings are limitless. Favorite mode is All Any for a very random experience. Highly recommend to anyone, even just to try it out.

This game is great to teach you exactly how stupid the average person is. And man is it way worse than you think.

Probably the most toxic and stupid community in gaming history.
If you're a racist or like being with stupid people you're gonna be in good company. Moderation seems non-existent. Enjoy your game thrower every other game. The other games will be with people calling themselves the n word in the lobby. It wasn't always like that, but it is now.

Town of Salem expands on the classic Mafia formula with more roles and complex strategies. While it’s engaging, the added mechanics can overwhelm newcomers, making it less accessible than the simpler original.

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5)

Amazing game 8/10 Hillaries

My pillion loves this game.

Was amazing when it came out, now the lobbies take ages to fill so I don't play it anymore, you may have better luck if you're on American time

Obsessed with this cheap little game.

lol better than the 2nd one

Great game! Lie and deceive people or work together and find the evil players. Great way to test your ability to see through lies or lie to others. Played this for many years, TOS1 will always beat TOS2. Do not play TOS2

Honestly love this game, but i am so fed up of being banned for leaving games because i cant be asked with gamethrowers and yet the throwers continue to play. i have played this game for years and you always have the same issue. nothing happens to throwers i would gladly be a monitor, this is honestly one of my favourite games but you go through a stage where you have bots stopping lobbies and then gamethrowers. their are so many roles you could create to make the throwers stop

vrery good

dies on n1 every game :,)

Haven't played in months but came back to a permanent ban, can't create a new account. No reason quoted. Steam refuse to refund.

So many trolls who out the mafia day 1 and leave, or hold lobbies hostage by quitting out in the last second then rejoining. Reporting doesn't do anything. Dead game

game can be fun at rare times, but the devs won't let sleeping dogs lay

Great social deduction game, good for low-end pcs! I could run it like a dream! ^^
It has great replayability because each time is different, you can have the same role and have multiple vastly different games.

Brownie points for being the original Among Us, but it is no longer new player friendly. Community is very hostile towards new players, and you're probably not going to be able to get a group of friends to play with when other games like Mindnight and Among Us exist. However, unlike those games, there is a much more extreme power imbalance because of the roles. Certain roles are more important than others/need to be played a certain way to win which can be challenging for new players to adapt to.

Used to be fun as a web-based game, now it's toxic as all get-out and NOT new player friendly -- even less so than the second one. Stay FAR away from this one.

I don't know about the PC game but absolutely do not buy it with an email through their website. I spent some money on that game, invested into the cosmetics since all my friends at the time played it. Never again. I will never support this game ever. The website was hacked in 2018. They sent everyone a notice. When I tried to log in to it to change my password via the website, the user name was hacked and password changed. The bullsh!t thing is I contacted their customer service and they told me I'm SH!T OUT OF LUCK, so FU

devs and community hit the shitter, i had hundreds of hours of fun on this game a long time ago. let it die...

this game really makes you think and learn how the diffrent factions and role abilitys work together, and there is a large freindly playerbase waitng for you.
10/10 hightly reccomend

Great game, was jailor claimed d1 and got executed by town on day 2!

Great game. The player lobby can take a few minutes to fill up but still very playable and fun.

Uh yeah it's still the essentially same game I played back in 6th grade during lunch and when my teacher wasn't looking

Awesome throwback to many ignored lectures in high school. This game embodies a great team-builder.

possibly the best game ever made

More people need to play this game. It may be toxic at times but it's so much fun and kind of rare in my case that I see any toxicity. Oddly enough, the boring roles are more fun than the roles that are more unique.

Ever since Digital Bandidos acquired BlankMediaGames this game has gone to sh*t. Do not spend a penny on this or Town of Salem 2.

Banned for saying the Escort name change should be reverted, since there is no reason to change it after 10 years of the name being completely fine.

Just so you know what kind of people you're dealing with when it comes to Blankmediagames :D

This game used to mean something to me.. but ever since they changed escort to tavern keeper,, heh.. lets just say my review speaks for itself

i cannot suggest anybody play this game for the simple fact the developers are immature and abuse their powers. i was wrongfully banned for an "inappropriate name" when my name was kimbo slice and ronnie coleman, so i asked the devs why i was banned and guess what they did, banned me for a day off the steam discussions, so after a day i asked why they did that? and guess what...they perma banned me. so keep this in mind before buying or playing this game that the devs DO NOT care about you and will ban you for no reason and when you rightfully ask them what happened they will brush you off and ban you. so no i do not suggest ANYBODY supports such immature devs, and to the devs i tell say "do better" cause YOU are the reason your game is dead.

toxic game, toxic community, no one does anything to stop the doxxing/crimes being comitted

With this type of game, whether or not it's good is entirely dependent on its community. In this case, the community is horrifically (and almost comically) toxic and, more often than not, has no idea how to play the game. Matches are constantly thrown on purpose or taken into completely avoidable situations by sheer incompetence. On top of that, moderation is basically nonexistent. Nothing of substance is done to prune toxic players, though at this point at least 80% of the entire playerbase would be gone if any real action was taken.

The nail in the coffin is the awful monetization changes made throughout the years. Originally, the web version was free, but then they suddenly made it paid in an attempt to wall off toxic players. As you'd expect, this had no effect. Town Points were also initially the only currency, and later they replaced it with Merit Points as the basic currency, and from that point forward you could only get Town Points by paying real money. Many cosmetics are only obtainable through Town Points, which is shady at best. This isn't even getting into the three separate paid versions that give bare-bones rewards in return, or the cryptocurrency BS they tried pulling a few years ago.

Save your brain cells and either play in a private lobby with friends, or better yet, don't play at all.

How about we don't change things that didn't need changing? You could curb any of the various issues the community has been raising for years. Yet instead you waste time changing things that actively annoy the fan base who played the game despite those grievances.

Would not reccomend at all. Game's anti-leaver system is severe and harsh and will instantly ban you for 24 hours for leaving a game, even if the reason stated, is for an actual reason. The Leaver system ruins what could be a good game. 2nd, they removes Escort and Consort to "remove sexual themes from the game" which makes no sense. Escort as in ESCORTING PEOPLE AWAY TO SAVE THEM. Real nice logic there, genius. lets change 2 established game roles so they match our sequel's names for em, but tell people because its too sexual! Genius idea!" No. Its a casual game with no competitive points. No competitive scene. Nothing to gain from winning and nothing to lose from losing. Unmoderated decade old game. Its retarded when games punish you for leaving what is supposed to be a casual gamemode with no consequences. It's a game, sometimes you have to leave a game to do something. No reason to stop people from playing the game they own. Tldr: The leaver penalty acts like you're leaving a competitive championship for a Call Of Duty tournament instead of what the game should be, ie CASUAL. Why else would it say you "left early" if you don't wait exactly half an hour to an hour or more until your tombstone pops up and/or a "medium tries to contact you" even if you have no last will at all due to dying early on, then if you leave during that, because who would sit and watch paint dry while the cutscene plays out, you get suspended for a day, maybe more if its 5+ leaves, The crux of the issue is the devs need to change the games label from casual to serious/competitive at all times, doesint matter what team you're on, then people would MAYBE understand why the severe harshness of the leaver penalty could possibly be justified, but as it stands, a leaver buster 2.0 system has no reason or logic being in a casual game which advertises itself as such. Tldr: it translates in waiting 30+ minutes, medium not contacting you, and either alt-tabbing or being forced to read trash talk in chat which may or may not be toxic, until it ends. Meanwhile you're better off LEAVING since there is no viable reason to stay, watch nothing of substance get accomplished by your possibly garbage teammates, and surprise surprise! mafia/witches/neutral wins, which means town accomplished nothing, and now you're more likely to not even bother playing because the game forced you to watch your team lose horribly. If i were there, i'd just watch r/askreddit videos with subway surfer footage in the background, ie AFKING, else i;d be peeved anyways, and we can't leave because we're dissatisfied with the quality of the team/match, we just look to chat to vent like its among us and troll people there.Least then you'd get SOME enjoyment and entertainment in an annoying/boring game session otherwise. is CASUAL and COMP/RANKED, one and the same?? Cause that's what it sounds like thats what it's treated as in regards to how seriously the leave penalty is. Wife givin birth? too bad biatch, DAY BAN. Gotta do something that involves touching grass, or god forbid somethin like uh, idk, Hurricane Milton or ANY NATURAL WEATHER PHENOMENON EVER makes you lose power, well f@k you, you get banned for 24/48 hours for leaving a game early. Might as well remove the quit button and force players to stay in the game permanently against their will right? Oh wait, that would make the game LOOK LIKE MALWARE cause they wouldint be able to shut off the game at all! :D Leave the LEAVER-BUSTER crap IN YOUR SWEATY COMPETITIVE MODES AND STOP FORCING IT ONTO CASUAL. There you go, problem solved, don't fix what ain't broke. And yes, I stopped playing a while ago cuz it was:
A. BORING.
B. INFURIATING, why? Because, bad teammates, bad rng, and people being paranoid in general and toxic.
Stay away from this game, and it's sequel, Town of Salem 2.

Update: the "humble" community mod Flavorable banned me from the Town of Salem forums for not agreeing with his opinion. I replied to someone that punishing people even more severely by banning their accounts from the get go if they leave more then x amount of times after certain strikes will only cause people to boycott the game and mass review bomb it, because now, its 5 dollars again, plus the coven dlc whch makes this 15 DOLLARS! which also makes it a scam because you need to pay FOR BASIC GAMEPLAY FEATURES. What do I get for daring to have the incorrect opinion? basically get told "f@k off m8, your opinion is trash cause I don't agree with it."

Town of Salem is not that bad, it's alright.

I know it says I've only played for 0.3 hours but that's because I've been using the web app for the past 4 years. Anyway, after the popular emergence of the hit indie game, "Among Us" a lot of people did a bit of digging into proper substitutes for the funny impostor game. I was one of those people and stumbled upon this game, and was apart of it's community for a couple years. When I first came to it I thought the roles would be really overwhelming but I didn't actually mind them.

I played this game as my go to social deduction game for a while, until I decided to mix the bowl a little bit and go on other games (Mafia.gg, Wolvesville, etc.) I think playing other SD games helped me understand the merits and flaws of each game.

When TOS2 came out, the "hardcore" community for TOS1 stayed, but really I just viewed the game as casual fun. It can be a bit intimidating for a first timer nowadays, because you're going into lobbies with fully experienced players who've at least been playing the game for 1 year+, but I find that the community is actually really lovely. I've never had any problems with racists, hackers or some of the other stuff people have been going on about, and I think this is one of the most healthy SD communities out there (it's got some kinks but that can be ironed out). Speaking of updates.

Digital Bandidos has taken over the cycle of the game (I don't know the specifics) but they made some UI changes, fixed a lot of bugs (thank god, the super roleblock on Pirate was actually so annoying), changed TT Veteran (okay, sure), and apparently most controversial was updating the names of Escort and Consort? What? We had this discussion last year when they changed the names in TOS2. Why are we having this discussion again? I'm going to bring up the same points I brought up last year. 1. Giving someone enough drinks so they're drunk is more PG friendly then forcibly having sex with your target. 2. Making someone drunk so they can't do their action properly is more realistic then having sex with them so that they're distracted 3. Why does it matter? Who cares? It's not like anyone actually likes playing esc or cons (lol)

TLDR; Good game, update is good, seems intimidating but it's actually not that bad just ask for help (we might make fun of you at first but you'll get it eventually just don't feel embarrassed)
Actually I have a story for this, I recently got into Better Town of Salem 2 (modded tos2) and I got made fun of for screwing up fake silenced (don't ask me how please i beg) but I got there in the end right? So happy playing townies!