The Roottrees are Dead is a Puzzle, Adventure, Casual game for PC published by Evil Trout in 2025. Scour the early Internet for clues.
The Roottrees are Dead PC Game 2025 Overview:
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998.
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Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation. 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.
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 in The Roottrees are Dead. 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 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.
Features of The Roottrees are Dead:
- Remastered music and sound effects, with fully voiced cinematics.
- A handful of Easter eggs and little touches for those who can’t get enough of the late ‘90s charm
- An enhanced user interface with many quality of life improvements to make your mystery solving easier to use and more intuitive
- A 3D living-room perspective that ties together all the unique puzzle systems
- Hand-drawn illustrations from acclaimed board game artist Henning Ludvigsen.
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Minimum System Requirements:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-Bit
- Processor: 2.0Ghz Dual Core
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 510
