I’ve been playing this browser game for quite a while now… and I’ve since found out it has a kick starter!
Town of Salem is a mafia-game about murder, mystery and deception. You play as 1 of many roles, and you have either one of two goals to accomplish: Kill all the Evil-doers or Kill all the innocent!
The game is very fun, and easy to pick up… I recommend it!
I remember playing that game with friends at a party. Quite fun accusing eachother without any evidence at all. “Your sweater is too red, you must be a killer”.
Super fun game! I missed it on Kickstarter, but I got into this last week.
Pros:
Super fun, manages to re-kindle some of that old board game fun when you’re alone. It seems to be a game that people play just for the sake of winning and nothing else (you don’t get internet points for winning), like King Arthur’s Gold. It is sort of a “first-in-genre” for me at least, having not played a similar game ever on the computer. Sort of like Papers Please, it will be the comparison for all future similar games. Really an impressive thing.
Cons:
As of now it is unmonitored/censored, so it ends up being pretty profane much of the time. Not a problem for me, but hard to “show off” to the wife or facebook. Also, super confusing, takes maye 20+ games to really get the hang of it. Maybe several times that number. I hope the official version has a way to handle this.
As far as I’m aware they are not the same developer, so I feel free to say that it is a 1:1 ripoff of the SC2 mafia mod. They’ve copied about everything, including layout, names and colors.
That being said, I’m not a fan of either, which is why I’ve written/am writing my own version in Garry’s Mod. With silly faces. It takes the “that guy has a red sweater” thing to the next stage, so to say, by randomly messing people’s faces up. As of now, you can re-roll the whole face, until you have one that you think fits best.
For example, imagine this guy was accused of being a mafioso. What would you say?