
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?
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.13/day in the week to Aug 3 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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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? Crack codes, decipher secrets & find a lost fortune in this exciting adventure for Windows PC.
+ Old-school style point & click adventure
+ Full English voice acting, 2000+ lines
+ Hand-drawn art & animation, 60+ rooms
+ Original soundtrack by Lannie Neely III, 45+ mins
+ Additional languages (text only) included, EFIGS
The Samaritan Paradox is set in Sweden in the 80's. Ord Salomon has agreed to help Sara Bergwall find the book her father, Jonatan Bergwall, wrote before he died. During the course of this treasure hunt, he learns that Jonatan was investigating the weapons industry, and more specifically some covert affairs with foreign dictatorships.
But more questions arise. What is the book about, and why does Sara want Ord to find it for her? Did her Alzheimer's-stricken mother know the secret before she grew too demented to share it? And how did Jonatan actually die?
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Sums Steam only; GOG publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $0.99−50% | 272reviews | 72% | — | $4.3K |
| $0.29−71% | 211ratings | 72% | — | not modelled |
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Reviews
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Reviews
I stayed for the story...this game is INSANELY HARD even with a precise GUIDE. It includes: pixel hunting, very hard timed puzzles (+pixel hunting), puzzles with 0 clues given, hard exit screens, dialogs puzzles with 0 clues, old school 80 interface (please save often you can lose it all) The interface is terrible for saving and loadind and implies many many bugs and freezes. I had to restart the full computer to compete the various puzzles and fight through the freezes and stuck. It also has an abrubt illogical ending. (worst ending ever) I hesitate between 0/10 and 10/10 because it has a soul and it has nice pixel art. (P.S: I will never visit SWEDEN because of this terrible game; i have a bad feeling this game is representative of this country: PAINFUL and COLD)
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 42 reviews with recorded playtime.
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My favorite game. Nostalgia.
ein kleines aber gutes abenteuerspiel. kann es empfehlen. der preiß des spiels ist im angebot für -65% gut.
пршелс подсказками, ак как некоторые загадки слишком притнуты. н мой взгяд. кнцовка весьма смазана и оставлят ассу вопросов. однако игра в цлом содает приятныйвайб, есть дуа нетграфомани, коорая иногда реследует такие проекты. я рад, что узнал всю историю. и да-вся игра отлично озвчена и довольно крсиво отрисована. если у ас естьвремя , играйте, останетесь неразочарваны.
Jammed Pencil Award
After a couple minutes voice audio disappears and wherever you click, the dialogue continues, making it impossible to go to settings, inventory, etc. It goes on and on. No way to quit the game, I dont find any button for it, which means I have to close session on my computer (when I try to quit the game in task manager it does not work either). Is it only me?
Recommended if you like point and click. There's a few pixel hunts and puzzles where you're like "I didn't know I could do that" due to lack of signposting, but I liked the story.
Ich bin noch nicht am Ende des Spieles angelangt, aber ich kann es empfehlen, vor allen Dingen macht man bei dem Preis im Sale nicht verkehrt. Das Spiel ist nicht perfekt aber es hat eine interessante Krimi Hauptstory, dazu eine Fantasy Story aus dem verschollenen Buch des Verstorbenen Autors und Journalisten um den sich die Handlung dreht. Die Steuerung ist auch in Ordnung. Die Grafik ist halt Pixelgrafik, sieht halt nicht so schön, so dass man Gegenstände auch schwieriger erkennt. Ist aber beim dem Spiel nicht so das Problem. Bei der Übersetzung ist auch nicht alles so perfekt, neben kleineren Übersetzungsfehler wie Du und Sie bei seinem Freund, gab es auch eine nicht genaue Übersetzung bei dem Sonnenuhren Rätsel, aufgrund deren ich nicht auf die Lösung kam. Ansonsten sind die die Rätsel bisher nachvollziehbar, auch wenn es teilweise länger gedauert hat, bis ich Sie gelöst habe. Bisher bin ich insgesamt zufrieden mit dem Spiel,
I have read some of the comments and wanted to add a positive review because I loved this game. I have played a lot of point n click games, so maybe it helped. I have not found the puzzles as difficult as described by some players. I had to take a look to the walkthrough only once, for the puzzle on the bunker (and only because I lacked the basic knowledge to solve the 4th riddle). I found the atmosphere of this game surprisingly good and I thoroughly enjoyed discovering every levels of this story (related to the journalist, to the private investigator, to the Bergwall family or even to the fantasy world around Freja that works quite well), I found main characters interesting and was definitely eager to know more. Regarding the darker aspects of the story, there are subtle hints (I do not want to spoil, but be careful to some dialogues and think about the seemingly randomly behavior of Patrik) that point into this direction. I understand this may be disturbing, but I think the ending makes sense and I am perfectly happy with it. It seems to me quite positive, yes sh*t happens but the characters still live on. Which leads me to another understanding of the title: no good without evil.
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