The Roottrees Are Dead
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
The Roottrees Are Dead is an adventure developed by Evil Trout, released 15 January 2025 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Roottrees Are Dead is
The Roottrees Are Dead is an adventure game developed by Evil Trout and released in 2025. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Godot Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 22 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Roottrees Are Dead holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0Ghz Dual Core, 8 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 510. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
The Roottrees Are Dead launched on 15 January 2025, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist, Eternal Strands and Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist, Eternal Strands, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Roottrees Are Dead yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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