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The Roottrees are Dead

The Roottrees are Dead

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The year is 1998. A private jet belonging to the Roottree Corporation has crashed. On it were the Roottree Sisters and their parents. Combined, they were worth over a billion dollars. Now, due to the eccentricities of their great-great-grandfather Elias, their money must be redistributed to the rest of the family. But who's actually a BLOOD RELATIVE? That's where you come in.

Own CSF2025Developer/Evil Trout Inc.Publisher/Evil Trout Inc.Deck
AdventureMysteryCasualIndiePuzzle2DAtmosphericSingleplayerStory Rich
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Armed only with the power of your mighty dial-up modem, you'll scour for photos, books, articles and other evidence. Then, you'll make connections and deductions based on the family relationships you uncover. With every spot on the tree you fill in correctly, the names and photos left in your possession will have fewer and fewer places to go — but the evidence will also be harder and more obscure to find. Can you put together the final pieces of the puzzle?

The Acclaimed Armchair Detective Game, Re-imagined on Steam

The Roottrees are Dead was originally created for the Global Game Jam 2023 and released as a free browser game. It was beloved by many for its clever puzzles, retro computing interface and novel world-building. The Steam version is the same great game, but enhanced in many ways:

  • Hand-drawn illustrations from acclaimed board game artist Henning Ludvigsen.

  • A 3D living-room perspective that ties together all the unique puzzle systems

  • An enhanced user interface with many quality of life improvements to make your mystery solving easier to use and more intuitive

  • Remastered music and sound effects, with fully voiced cinematics.

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Installation Guide

Step-by-step setup process

1
Game is pre-installed / portable, therefore you do not need to install the game.
2
Just extract the rar / zip file.
3
Simply launch the Run Me!.bat inside the game folder.

Important Notes

Please review these important details before installation

Install necessary apps from Redist or _CommonRedist to ensure game launches without any problems.

Always extract game in Antivirus / Defender excluded folder - Please check our FAQs to know why it is important.

Always run the game as administrator.

For detailed guide, make sure to read Installation Guide.txt inside the game files.

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Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

OS
Windows 10 64-Bit
Processor
2.0Ghz Dual Core
Memory
8 GB RAM
Graphics
Intel HD Graphics 510
Storage
1 GB available space

Staff test record

Passed
Build tested
Build 25910924
Environment
Windows 10
Tested

The Roottrees are Dead update history

  1. Updated from V d75327d to Build 25910924 · Build 25910924 · 0.8 GB
  2. Updated from V a8d3574 to Build 25810363 · Build 25810363 · 0.8 GB
  3. Updated from v4b59b93 to Build 25509344 · Build 25509344 · 0.8 GB

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2 months ago 4.0/5

Look for it at the top of the stream.

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M 2 months agoEdited Verified Dungeon Scout 44 5.0/5

Good Game, one of the best detective games I've played. I'm sadly im too stupid to complete this

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YuiStan

YuiStan

Great game, just the right difficulty for a smoothbrain like me.

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Mike

Mike

This game is great, I finished the base game in one sitting because I couldn't pull myself away.

I'm having major problems with the expansion "Roottreemania" though, every minute or so it'll hang for 15 seconds and it's really messed up the game for me, the whole game is like this now, even after finishing the main game without any issues.

Idk if anyone else has this problem, or it's just me?

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tom martin

tom martin

works perfectly , thank you


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