"Town of Salem" was my introduction to social deduction games (which are among my favorite types of games to watch, apparently), and it was really fun to play for a while there. Then, being a free game, it was riddled with bots. After it became not-a-free-game, but still pretty cheap, it became riddled with... People with interesting senses of humor. And also trolls. And now has a population issue as a result of there being a sequel, so...
I tried getting back into it a few weeks ago but couldn't even make it into the first game. It took so long to queue because it's a game with 15 needed slots to be filled and maybe 50 players active at any point in time, and eventually someone ended up joining who very loudly proclaimed their interests in sexual activities and with whom they like to do it. Which, you know, great, enjoy that, but it was clearly meant to be an unfunny "rendition" of what that person believes the kind of person who would do that would be like. Hiding people's messages is easy, but people joined in on the "bit", so I just ended up leaving rather than having half the lobby ignored (which poses unique difficulties in a game designed around people speaking).
Wish I could get into other social deduction games.

















