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The Roottrees are Dead

@roottrees.com

The official BlueSky account for “The Roottrees are Dead,” a puzzle game where you piece together a family tree using the Internet circa 1998. Developed by: bsky.app/profile/eviltrout.com

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 12/03/2026

We're nominated for Best Narrative at the Gamescom Latam BIG Festival. Also, we recently released Brazilian Portuguese, which should be of interest to our Latin American players!

A badge that shows we're a finalist for Best Narrative at Gamescom LatAm BIG Festival

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 31/01/2026

A reminder that The Roottrees are Dead is nominated for Game of the Year, Most Innovative Game, and Best Expansion at this year's Thinky Awards, streaming on Feburary 4th. Our next game, The Incident at Galley House, is based on the game Type Help, which is also nominated for Best Free Game.

Date reminder for Thinky Awards - Wednesday, February 4 at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm UTC

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 13/01/2026

If you like detective games, remember to check out our bundles. We're in one now with Confidential Killings, a noir golden-idol-esque game about solving murders in classic Hollywood.

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 12/01/2026

We're part of the Steam Detective Fest. You can pick up the game for 20% off right now

The Roottrees are Dead as part of the Steam Detective Fest

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 18/12/2025

We're delighted to announce that The Roottrees are Dead is now available in Simplified Chinese! This was our most ambitious translation to date and we hope that it means even more people can enjoy the game. We're also 20% off for the Winter Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/2754380/...

A newspaper in Simplified Chinese from the game, The Roottrees are Dead

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 11/12/2025

Love this fan art from byobyoman! www.instagram.com/p/DRjzOxvDA5...

Fan art of The Roottrees are Dead. It’s an illustration of the desk and computer and cork board.

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 25/11/2025

If you enjoyed The Roottrees are Dead, please consider nominating us for a Steam Award: store.steampowered.com/news/app/275...

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 13/11/2025

Wow! The Roottrees are Dead has been nominated for Best Narrative Game at the Indie Game Awards!

A banner for The Indie Game Awards featuring The Roottrees are Dead as a 2025 nominee for best narrative game.

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 25/09/2025

The Roottrees are Dead is now part of The Cozy Crimes Bundle with Little Problems! You can pick up both games for 20% off. @littleproblems.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/2754380/...

The Cozy Crimes Bundle image featuring Little Problems and The Roottrees are Dead

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 07/07/2025

The Roottrees are Dead has sold over 100,000 copies! store.steampowered.com/news/app/275...

The Roottrees are Dead: Over 100,00 copies sold!

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 12/06/2025

There's something very weird hidden in The Roottrees are Dead that nobody's found yet!

To all of our internet detectives and spider searchers,

How would you feel if I told you that there's something very weird hiding in this game? It's not like anything else in Roottrees. But that's because it was built as an homage to a different game series, after Eviltrout and I had discussions with one of their developers early in the production of Roottrees. I must warn you. This one's kind of... different.

Reaching the end of this search will take larger leaps of logic and outside the box thinking than anything else you're asked to do in game. In all honestly, it's the type of puzzle that admittedly won't be for some of you. When it's all over, you might read about how it was solved and think "How was anyone ever expected to find that?" And the answer is that we actually weren't expecting anyone to, really.
Over the years I've always loved reading articles, or seeing videos about games/movies/books from my past still revealing their secrets years later. Part of the appeal of hiding something like this, to me anyways, was the thought that "What if on the one year, five year, or even ten year anniversary I could announce there's something hidden in the game that nobody had ever found?" But more recently we've thought... why not give our community a chance while we have a ton of people still engaged in our discord (Who even knows if discord will exist in ten years)

Collectively, if you contribute to solving the puzzle, you can be part of something pretty special to us. Some of the information we hid a while back is about to become public. And so knowing that we were about to tell our community about the existence of this puzzle we've also adjusted the final "reward" to include a juicy new piece of information that (whoever finds first) can share in this discord. Meaning if you do reach the end of the journey... maybe you can help us with a major announcement.

Knowing this treasure hunt exists might simply be enough of a hint for all of you get this whole thing…

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 26/02/2025

The Roottree Sisters have a new look in the latest patch. We've updated the key artwork based on feedback and experience. Apologies if it feels weird to see them suddenly change!

The new illustration of The Roottree Sisters from The Roottrees are Dead

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 29/08/2024

Here's some new screenshots from The Roottrees are Dead remaster, including one that shows off the new family tree interface for the first time. We are working on getting a new trailer ready, which will announce our release date!

The main room in The Roottrees are dead, showing the family tree on the wall.

The family tree interface. It looks like a corkboard with cut out pieces of construction paper.

The evidence interface. It's a folder open to a photo of the Roottree sisters and a printed out piece of paper with information about it.

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The Roottrees are Dead @roottrees.com · 21/03/2024

Any self respecting amateur genealogist is a fan of Mystery Comics. Issue 32 contained the fan favorite "Cursed Family Tree" story.

An illustration of an old comic book. The title is Mystery Comics No. 32. There is a picture of a detective holding a magnifying glass.

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