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The Salesman

82% positive of 726 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Backstab Industries. Published by Bad Ideas Productions.

About the game

In the Salesman, you play as a recently laid-off employee trying to survive the grind of job applications, debt, and dwindling hope. Trade your belongings for ad-supported replacements as you slowly sell away your life in this psychological horror game

Tagged by players

  • Horror
  • FMV
  • Psychological Horror
  • Simulation
  • Retro
  • Linear
  • Action-Adventure
  • Walking Simulator
  • Dark
  • Adventure
  • Dark Humor
  • Atmospheric

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Over all good game, the sound design and choices are nice, very story driven. Its not super long so its good for a quick game (took me about 1 hr ish). I did wish that there was a little more to do outside of the immediate quests, i also experienced a few bugs that needed me to restart the day -opening and closing the exit screen during at least day 2 made it so i couldn't move my person or camera- and the…

    1.7 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Great game but it has a few bugs, mainly the settings don't save for me and none of the achievements work, and there's some constant crackling/popping noises because of the lower frequency sounds in the ambient audio I think. Still I recommend it for anyone who likes these type of games, there's not much gameplay besides some repeating tasks but I enjoyed it and it had a lot of funny moments

    1 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    its a decent concept but it was more of an experience than it was a game, theres no real playability other than do the same 5 tasks. it'd be better if there were more story routes you could take

    52 min played when written. 4 found it helpful.

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