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New Salem

2015 · BGG
Avg rating
6.27
Bayes rating
5.65
Weight
1.70 (Light)
Players
3-8
Playtime
45 min
Ratings count
547

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Description

New Salem is a hidden-identity, drafting, deduction, and set-collection game in which players are 17th-century founders of New Salem, where they hope to escape from the pestilence-filled streets of Salem during the infamous witch trials. Righteous players need to keep the witches at bay and construct specific types of buildings while witches add pestilence to the new town without detection. If the righteous players can keep pestilence at a minimum, the one who scored the most victory points will win, but if there is too much pestilence, the witch who was the most evil will win.

Play mode

Team-based

How it plays

Deduction & hidden information Drafting Set collection & pattern building

Game type

Card game Board game

What it’s about

Horror & the supernatural Community, city life & everyday life

Publishers

Overworld Games uplay.it edizioni

Designers

Brian Henk Clayton Skancke