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The Samaritan Paradox cover art

The Samaritan Paradox

Faravid Interactive · Screen 7 · 2014-04-18

SteamGOG

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

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?

The Samaritan Paradox is a 2014 Adventure and Indie game priced at $1.99, with an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a Mostly Positive sentiment (72% of 272 reviews).

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

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 26% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.8k–16k copies

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

Current store prices

GOG$0.99

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 88 of 94 observed days · $0.90 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520152026Week of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
110Apr 2014Jul 2022Apr 2014 — avg 6 · peak 18Jun 2014 — avg 1 · peak 5Aug 2014 — avg 11 · peak 168Oct 2014 — avg 10 · peak 88Dec 2014 — avg 3 · peak 11Feb 2015 — avg 3 · peak 18Apr 2015 — avg 2 · peak 9Jun 2015 — avg 5 · peak 26Aug 2015 — avg 1 · peak 7Oct 2015 — avg 3 · peak 18Dec 2015 — avg 2 · peak 7Feb 2016 — avg 1 · peak 7Apr 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Jun 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Aug 2016 — avg 7 · peak 59Oct 2016 — avg 1 · peak 7Dec 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Feb 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Apr 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Jun 2017 — avg 1 · peak 7Aug 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Dec 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Apr 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 4Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 6Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 4Dec 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3May 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Jun 2022 — avg 6 · peak 42Jul 2022 — avg 8 · peak 115

▲ +2 avg players vs prior month — Jul 2022

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$10.99$0.092015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $8.482015-04-27 — best price $9.992015-06-22 — best price $9.992015-12-06 — best price $9.992016-04-18 — best price $4.512016-12-05 — best price $8.442017-09-04 — best price $2.792018-02-17 — best price $8.682018-12-13 — best price $1.992019-06-25 — best price $3.492019-11-26 — best price $5.242020-04-13 — best price $6.992020-09-21 — best price $6.992021-02-02 — best price $5.992021-10-28 — best price $4.012022-03-12 — best price $7.632022-06-28 — best price $6.992022-10-31 — best price $4.992023-02-21 — best price $0.992023-08-21 — best price $0.992024-01-05 — best price $0.992024-06-10 — best price $2.092024-10-16 — best price $0.992025-02-24 — best price $0.992025-06-02 — best price $0.992025-09-23 — best price $0.992025-12-18 — best price $0.592026-03-19 — best price $0.302026-07-09 — best price $0.992026-09-04 — best price $0.292026-09-19 — best price $0.292026-10-04 — best price $0.292026-10-14 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
20.5%
earned "Elementory, My Dear Salomon"
6.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)87423%17

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DDramaIndiePuzzleMysteryAdventureDetectiveStory RichSingleplayerThird Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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