
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.
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Prices
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Charts
Each storefront's own chart, in its own country — the closest public signal to sales where none is published. A country missing from a list is one we don't collect there, not one where the game doesn't chart.
No United States chart position — it charts only in the markets below.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 8.14/day in the week to Aug 19 → 24.57/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
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. 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.
A handful of Easter eggs and little touches for those who can't get enough of the late ‘90s charm
Includes "Roottreemania", a brand new mystery
Find out what happens to the Roottree family following the events of the base game.
A whole new family tree to complete!
Discover the scandals, lies, and infidelities that took place behind the scenes of America's largest maple candy empire.
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 1266 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
怎么会这么好玩……而且不含任何恐怖元素真是太感恩了! 推理过程中头一直痒痒的要长脑子了,顺藤摸瓜抽丝剥茧特别爽。但是卡住的地方也不少,有些关联真是给我三个小时也想不到……这时候就要让我们谢谢我们最好的朋友小黄鸭!^^ 翻译也非常厉害,连歌词都是押韵的。但是有一处翻译用词是<娘炮>,严肃批评。
老埃利亚斯鲁特里,小埃利亚斯鲁特里,克兰西爱德华鲁特里,查尔顿拉弗蒂!我真得控制你们了。
I honestly never do reviews for a game, but I absolutely had to for TRaD. My Wife and I played it together and couldn't get enough of it. We'd sit and play it, get our children thru dinner and off to bed, talking about it the whole time. Then go right back to it when they went to bed! It's a super addicting, very well written puzzle/detective game of deduction and we couldn't hardly stop playing it. I can't recommend it enough to anyone who wants a brain scratcher of a game, and has a partner to figure out the Roottree family's history. Playing solo would be just fine, but it's all the more enjoyable having someone you can't help but discuss your finding with. Happy Hunting!! (To the Dev: Please, for the love of all that is good in life. Make another game like this and thicken the Roottree 'blood/syrup' (-; My wife and I, NEED MORE! lol)
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Latest in each market: best CA #77, worst UK #89 · 4 markets collected
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese*, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Russian*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 1.3K reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Noticed someone's hand was wrong in the second segment of the game. Learned this company used AI in their development. I thought this was a great game, and it turns out it's built upon the labors of stolen art. I was excited for Galley House because I loved Type Help but I refuse to risk one of the best games I ever played to get ruined because you won't pay your artists. Shame on you.
适合一鼓作气一下子全部打完 不然真的脑子记不住。。。分几个月打到80%之后全都忘光了。。。看到旧时代的女性一个个家庭主妇,新时代女性各个职业百花齐放真的非常感慨。推荐
到了狂热简直就是乱七八糟,也许人与人之间的关系就是这样错综复杂......
Wikipedia link hopping, the game! I love "The Roottrees are Dead" so much that I regularly check what the developers are up to and purchased their second game, "The Incident at Galley House", the day it came out. If you have ever stayed awake at night reading Wikipedia articles on random topics because your insomnia has a death grip on you: you will like this game. If you have ever pulled your phone out at a restaurant to find a research article you read years ago to prove something as fact: you will enjoy this game. If you make excel spreadsheets for fun, considered getting an ancestry.com subscription, or have run out of major puzzle games ("Return of the Obra Dinn", "The Case of the Golden Idol", "Outer Wilds", "Blue Prince", etc.): you will LOVE this game. There's a warm sense of satisfaction you get while putting the pieces together, the overarching mystery doesn't hit boring lulls because you choose how many side details you want to read, and the game has an actually helpful notepad function. It's point-and-click for any fellow first-person nausea havers and the music didn't scrape my brain after hours of playthrough. It has its flaws, but if given the opportunity to forget everything about this game just so I could play it again with fresh eyes, I would not hesitate. Enjoy!
非常有意思的一款解谜游戏,一款一旦打开了就舍不得关上的游戏。一些玩了本作的玩家可能会联想到另一款经典作品《奥伯拉丁的归来》——寻找信息,确认身份,接着寻找信息,如此循环,直到查明所有人的身份。 一开始看到这个标题还以为会经常看到鲁特里家族成员的尸体,玩下来发现实属是我多想了,游戏里没有一丝一毫的“具有视觉冲击力”的元素(比如血迹),你唯一的任务就是搜集人物信息,和恐怖完全不沾边(事实上游戏确实也没有恐怖标签)。 在这个游戏中,我们需要扮演一名侦探,通过不断上网搜索资料(或点小黄鸭),推出鲁特里家族的族谱,每推出几个人的正确信息就会弹出结算界面,对你的调查结果予以肯定的同时,主线也随之推进,进一步激励你推理剩下的族人信息。想象一下,当你自信地输入几名人员信息后,游戏终于给你确认了他们的信息是正确的,你会觉得前面的努力并没有白费,还会觉得自己甚是聪明,而这份强烈的正反馈会继续激励着你继续输入其他鲁特里的信息。 建议在游玩本作的时候尽量拿出大段连续的时间来玩,我偶尔关闭游戏后再打开第一反应是:咦我上一次推到哪里了? 游戏分为本篇和狂热两部分,本篇通关后就能解锁鲁特里狂热,不需要额外购买。个人感觉相对于本篇,鲁特里狂热的难度更高一些,小黄鸭差点成为常驻功能。总觉得狂热里的线索之间更加跳脱,彼此的联系不如本篇的紧密,尤其是最后推某些人到底是不是鲁特里的时候,我感觉难度真的称不上“简单”,太烧脑了。狂热篇里也是能看到某人宙斯属性大爆发,玩本篇的时候完全没想到这人竟这么炸裂。 成就方面,只有一个成就错过了需要开新档补,说的就是你,来电过滤。人,一听到电话响了就会想接。
好玩爱玩推荐玩,文本量非常扎实的推理游戏,作为拖延症+电子ed玩家一口气两天打完([spoiler] 因为只要一走神就会断思路为了本人的猪脑一口气打完了 [/spoiler])。本篇死全家解密难度算中等,不用小黄鸭(游戏内置提示)可以一口气打完,dlc难度飙升尤其是游戏末[spoiler] 确认谁是“血浓于枫糖浆”的线索寻找 [/spoiler],有好些部分都靠万能的小黄鸭帮助。 游戏本质是玩家作为族谱精灵[strike] 开盒 [/strike]收集百年来鲁特里家族的资料,从中发现不为人知的秘密。虽然作为商业化和埃里亚斯一样成功的游戏,但仍有人评价死全家这款没有上什么价值,甚至游戏内容是有关于[spoiler] 同性恋,私生子,种族歧视 [/spoiler]相关来给予差评,却刻意去忽略了游戏本身扎实的文本质量和游戏中不同立场的探讨以及在游玩途中对角色动机和性格行为推测的体验,我认为这本身就属于一种和老埃里亚斯和当初对这些冷眼旁观的[spoiler] 五代堂 [/spoiler]有什么区别呢? 说回游戏本身,有些内容真的要很仔细的阅读和推断才能判断事情的真相,部分内容都不在游戏内被提及([spoiler] 例如春日冬日都属于黑人,原文中甚至没有出现春日的名字,描写也只是位于美国南部一位无法登记结婚的妻子,这段内容是我在游玩狂热结束整理线索从前情提要看到关于冬日的部分才后知后觉。 [/spoiler])。就个人而言本体的游玩体验是略微高于dlc的(可能因为我是猪在狂热得用提示但是本体推断流畅吧),本体游玩时间大概在6-7h,dlc大概也在这个区间可能略少但是有趣程度归功于[spoiler] 种马盖伊 [/spoiler]是高于本体的。总之非常推荐推理新手/老手、爱狗血吃瓜爱玩文字游戏的无脑入。
超级推荐!!谁不想急头白脸大扒特扒豪门的小秘密呢~!! 碎片式解谜真的有种做私家侦探的feel,太喜欢管鲁特里家的“破事”导致玩完了意犹未尽想把脑袋清空了再玩一回… 冬促买了打完了本章,中间拖了半年再玩“狂热篇”,有的线索都记不太清了,甚至小黄鸭提示的时候都想不起来在哪儿见过线索…还是得一口气打完才行~ 打完本章和狂热篇,千万别错过里面的小游戏【FD家族数独】,算是番外代餐了,能不能多出几关直接做个DLC呀 游戏里的音乐居然是真的原创曲目,[spoiler] All your problems/Rollin‘on down to the city/These times [/spoiler]已加入循环歌单 中译本土化非常好很有代入感,甚至大多数梗也翻译不错能get到。但是[spoiler]本名和昵称对应不上(毕竟是英翻中,总是要再倒回英文名字才能恍然大悟)[/spoiler]着实有点苦手 [strike]梦一个加入克兰西信托[/strike]
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