Town of Salem is an intricate game where you must lie to your friends and foes. If your role is found out, your friends may attempt to help you, while your foes will most certainly be ready to attack.

 While maintaining your deception, you must complete the goal that comes with your faction. The three factions have different goals. Town must make sure that at least one townie survives, Mafia must kill all those that oppose the mafia, and Neutral depends on what role you get.

Your options for a role depend on what game mode you play.

In classic mode, the classes are based on the number of players. If 10 players were to join, then the first 10 roles would be your options.

With custom mode, the host has control of what roles are being used with some rules:

1. Unique roles cannot be added more than once.

2. Any role cannot be added more than three times.

3. Mafia-specific roles or random roles cannot be added more than six times.

4. If any mafia are added, there also has to be a specific Godfather or Mafioso.

5. Picking random roles won’t circumvent any of these rules.

In all any mode, the 15 players can receive any of the 33 roles the game has. Through rapid mode, the time for making decisions and taking action is halved. This setting is well suited for those who like fast-paced games.

With vigilante mode, there are five witches against 10 vigilantes. The witches must control the vigilantes to kill each other while the vigilantes must attempt to either vote to hang the witches or shoot them at night with their gun. In contrast, rainbow is a chaotic game mode where, humorously, the role list is set to look like a rainbow.

Finally, rank is a competitive mode where all roles are predetermined. You cannot use scrolls to increase your chances to obtain a certain role, and you must have played a total of 50 games combined from the other modes.

Town of Salem is truly an intricate game where you must question who is a friend and who is foe, while lying to protect yourself at all costs.