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Project Root

Prometheus Corporation is the leader in the generation and distribution of energy to all cities in the world. Due to the ideas and designs of charismatic president Demetrio Watts, the corporation developed new…

37 1 May 2014

Project Root is an indie developed by Reverb Triple XP, released 1 May 2014 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Project Root is

Project Root is an indie game developed by Reverb Triple XP and released in 2014. It was published by OPQAM. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Prometheus Corporation is the leader in the generation and distribution of energy to all cities in the world. Due to the ideas and designs of charismatic president Demetrio Watts, the corporation developed new technologies producing higher quantities of energy at a lower cost, granting them near-absolute control of the market. The friendly policies enforced by Prometheus and Demetrio Watts has made citizens confident they will have access to electricity in their houses every day. However, very few of them are aware of what's behind Demetrio Watts' smile or behind the scenes in Prometheus Corporation. Secret plans. Terrible plans. Plans which will take the population by surprise. When they…
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How it plays

Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Single player.

How it was received

Project Root holds a critic score of 37 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 32 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Project Root launched on 1 May 2014, within three weeks of Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor, Child of Light and Duck Game. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor, Child of Light, Duck Game.

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When did Project Root come out?
Project Root was released on 1 May 2014 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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