User blog:SANTORYU99/Town of Salem

Yesterday I found a game called Town of Salem, It's based off the board games 'Mafia' and 'Werewolf'. It's better than another game based off of the same board games called EpicMafia, which I've tried playing with Flare and Tux. In the game, 15 players are assigned Roles which have three allignments: Town, Mafia, and Neutral. The Town roles are the ones that try to get rid of the Mafia roles (Ex. Sheriff, Jailor, Lookout) They win if all of the players with Mafia roles are dead. The Mafia roles are the ones that have to kill every other player (Ex. Godfather, Framer, Mafioso) They win if all of the other players are dead. The Neutral roles are different, they have distinct goals (Ex. The Jester has to be Lynched to win) The way the game is played is simple, Here's how it works.

Night Phase
During the night phase different roles can do different actions

The sheriff can choose a player and find out if they're suspicious

The doctor can heal a player they think might be attacked that night

The godfather can choose a player to be killed and the mafioso will do it

The mafioso can choose someone to kill if the godfather doesn't

The escort can distract a player, preventing them from doing their roles action

The lookout can choose a player and see who visited them that night

After everything is done it moves on to the...

=Day phase=

Anybody who was killed the night before will be announced first thing in the morning, along with their last will, a death note the killer left behind, and their role. Then the players get to discuss what to do and who to trust for 30 seconds. Then there's a voting phase and if a player get's enough votes they are brought to the gallows, this process is called lynching. They have 20 seconds to explain why they're innocent, then the players vote if they're guilty or not, if guilty they will be killed, If innocent they will live until the next night.

Why I made this blog
It's a really fun game and if interests you, you should go play it right now. It takes 1 game to pick up, and several to put down. Thank you for reading