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This multiplayer social deduction game, released in 2014, tasks players with identifying and eliminating a hidden mafia. Town of Salem features a mystery-driven strategy gameplay loop. It has garnered 30,910 Steam reviews with an 88% positive rating. BlankMediaGames developed this title, published by Digital Bandidos.
Overview
Town of Salem is a 2014 Action game developed by BlankMediaGames and published by Digital Bandidos. On Steam it has gathered 36,286 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer BlankMediaGames with publisher Digital Bandidos is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.5 million to 3.6 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Town of Salem can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
36,286
Positive
88%
Steam appid
334230
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.5M to 3.6M
units (median: 2.5M)
≈ $4.3M to $10.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$5 | -20 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Town of Salem at roughly 1.5 million to 3.6 million copies, with a median around 2.5 million, derived from its 36,286 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $2.71Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $2.71 to $4.99, averaging $4.72 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $2.71 on 2026-04-19.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
MultiplayerStrategyMysteryIndieSocial DeductionRPGCasualWerewolvesFunnySurvivalTactical2DMassively MultiplayerMemesComedyFamily FriendlyParty-Based RPGActionStrategy RPG2.5D
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Town of Salem sold?
- indielist estimates Town of Salem has sold between 1,524,012 and 3,556,028 units (median 2,540,020), derived from its 36,286 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Town of Salem?
- Town of Salem was developed by BlankMediaGames and published by Digital Bandidos.
- When was Town of Salem released?
- Town of Salem was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does Town of Salem have on Steam?
- Town of Salem has 36,286 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Town of Salem within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, BlankMediaGames's other releases and Digital Bandidos's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Town of Salem sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Town of Salem page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.