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The Samaritan Paradox cover art

The Samaritan Paradox

Faravid Interactive · Screen 7 · 2014-04-18

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 14, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A writer has died. His daughter seeks the help of you, Ord Salamon, to find his secret last novel. During the search, questions will emerge. Did her father really kill himself? What is the secret novel all about? What is going on at the island of Fardo?

0
playing now
72%
positive of 272 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
76/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 50% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.8k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 272 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.29-71%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.29-71%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.09 at GOG (2023-11-21) · bundled 8×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 52 of 60 observed days · $0.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.99$0.092015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $8.482015-04-17 — best price $2.992015-06-10 — best price $9.992015-10-19 — best price $3.962015-12-12 — best price $1.992016-04-18 — best price $4.512016-11-08 — best price $1.992017-06-07 — best price $1.992017-11-28 — best price $6.992018-03-19 — best price $6.992018-12-13 — best price $1.992019-06-10 — best price $1.982019-10-14 — best price $1.932020-01-24 — best price $4.192020-05-27 — best price $1.792020-09-21 — best price $6.992020-12-22 — best price $1.742021-06-28 — best price $6.992021-12-01 — best price $5.992022-04-04 — best price $6.992022-06-28 — best price $6.992022-10-24 — best price $2.492022-12-31 — best price $5.352023-06-01 — best price $2.682023-10-23 — best price $0.552024-01-05 — best price $0.992024-04-24 — best price $0.992024-08-26 — best price $0.492024-11-25 — best price $0.992025-03-13 — best price $0.492025-06-02 — best price $0.992025-09-08 — best price $1.992025-11-05 — best price $0.992026-01-21 — best price $0.992026-04-03 — best price $0.992026-07-09 — best price $0.992026-08-30 — best price $0.29
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Player tags

2DDramaIndiePuzzleMysteryAdventureDetectiveStory RichSingleplayerThird Person

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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