Root is an indie developed by Deep Fried Enterprises, released 16 November 2015 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Root is
Root is an indie game developed by Deep Fried Enterprises and released in 2015. It was published by Digital Tribe. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
ROOT is a cyber espionage themed stealth FPS that lets you play it how you want: whether creeping along corridors undetected or bursting into rooms to blow away all adversaries. Cyber terrorism is a dangerous profession, and risks have real consequences.
How it plays
Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Root holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Root launched on 16 November 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition and Star Wars Battlefront. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, Star Wars Battlefront.
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