Board Thread:Debate of The Week/@comment-28112409-20190613035024/@comment-28112409-20190618090324

Faraday242 wrote: Vertroyer wrote: Faraday242 wrote: there is no skill required to play the game. Yes. You don't need skill to play and enjoy the game. there is no skill required to be good by the games standards It depends on the role you receive. If you get an evil role, then you really need to pull something out of your arse to achieve your goal or hope for the town to be unbelievably stupid. Even then, there will also be cases as an evil role where there was absolutely nothing you could've done that you would've reasonably predicted or known about.

If you get a town role, you can easily flock with the horde that employs all these tactics and metas and very easily take your win. The skill responsibility for checking and everything diffuses among the many town players possessing majority, and 1 town player being active and leading is enough to direct the Town to a win.

So overall, the skill required to be "good" in Town of Salem isn't all that much considering the linear design of what most roles can do in a given match, and the large amount of players who acts as external forces that you can't do anything about if they choose to do something.