
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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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.
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Reviews
Themes across 1266 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Somewhere between Hypnospace Outlaws and The Case of the Golden Idol, this game exists. A excellent puzzle that made me really invested into the Roottree family.
谁不想酣畅淋漓来一场家族秘辛吃瓜推理大戏
思来想去,最后还是给个差评,游戏本身还可以,我可以给到7.5-8分(DLC6分吧),但是说实话,我无法接受游戏隐含的某种道德倾向,主要是拿死亡作为纯粹噱头的欺骗。 我知道游戏的玩法是调查族谱树,但是游戏名称比游戏玩法的优先级更高,我接受不了一个叫鲁特里一家死了(The Roottrees are Dead) 的游戏里,死亡是元叙事层面的共情欺诈,比起游戏中角色控诉的,社会伦理的扭曲不公、家族中某些角色的道德败坏,这种制作者层面展现的对死亡的忽视略过的态度更直接使我感到道德上的不适感——难道开头五个人的死真的在某些作者设计的道德高尚的角色眼里连一根毛都算不上吗?我玩完整个游戏,好像真的没人在乎这几个人死不死的,一丁点悲伤都没有。 除了这点之外,游戏本身有点虎头蛇尾,游戏最好玩的就是开头的几个小时,到后面过量的无用信息会让游戏有点无聊,但这算是无法避免的,所以我不会就这点批评游戏。然而,DLC鲁特里狂热绝对是过于蛇尾了,冗长、证据链松散,让我实在无法认真玩下去。
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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.
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[h1]准确来说,《鲁特里一家死了》疑似有些标题诈骗。[/h1] 如果你光凭此标题猜测游戏的内容,那大概会以为这是要我们推理出鲁特里一家灭门惨案的真相,但实际上本作的主要内容其实和鲁特里一家的死亡没有任何关系,游戏故事的开票是一场惨烈的私人飞机坠毁事故,这场空难夺走了鲁特里糖果公司现任总裁卡尔鲁特里一家人的生命,而这场空难的事实是什么并不重要,因为对本作而言,你的工作是作为系谱学家将多达五十余位家族成员的姓名、照片与最终职业一一对应,从而在错综复杂的线索中还原出跨越五代人的家族树。通俗点说,就是你要扒人家族谱。 尽管本作并不是大众层面较为熟知的推理作品(类似于逆转裁判,山河旅探这种有被害人出现并推理出嫌疑人之类的作品),但本作在推理这个角度而言,或许反倒是比市面上大部分推理游戏更加的烧脑有趣,玩家的核心信息来源是游戏内虚构的早期搜索引擎蜘蛛搜索,期刊搜索以及图书馆索引系统。本作的所有线索到来源于你在网络上进行的文本检索。查阅各种可能蕴含着重要线索的一段段文字,以及涵盖商业、音乐、影视等多个领域的过刊杂志。本作利用信息的不对称性与时代的变迁构建了极具挑战性的信息谜题。例如,家族中带有星号标记的知名鲁特里的资料在网络上随处可见,而那些被家族边缘化或刻意隐藏的成员,则需要玩家通过交叉比对模糊的日记内容,分析照片背景中的时代细节,甚至是查阅多次结婚导致的改名记录来推断其真实身份。有一种类似于“维基兔子洞”的检索体验,是一种相当独特的头脑风暴和推理过程。 本作还有一大特点就是它在大部分情况下不会给你准确的证据去证明这个人的身份或他和其他人的关联,很多的内容都藏在一段段看似毫无关联的文字当中,而这也就导致如果你看的比较快(一目十行)的情况下,往往会忽略很多重要线索,所以对于本作而言较为推荐的游玩方式是将每一段线索在心中默念一遍以确保没有因为自己的注意力缺失而导致漏掉。相对的,由于在本篇中游戏给出了所有成员的具体姓名,以及借助确定3或4个家族成员后会自动锁定的系统,所以你可以在特定情况下借用游戏机制使用枚举的方法去确认一到两个你不太确定的线索,这也算是游戏中的一大乐趣。 那么,如果你在游戏的过程中卡关了该怎么办?是否需要看攻略?那么这就得提到本作做的最好的线索提示系统了。对于本作来说卡关并不会让你只拥有去看攻略这一个选项,游戏中的直觉会动态显示每件证据中尚未被发掘的线索数量,这有效防止了玩家在已经毫无价值的旧文档上浪费时间,当一份证据仍有线索未被发现时,这种明确的系统提示能够鼓励玩家换个角度重新审视既有证据,起到了极佳的隐性引导作用。 如果你实在发现不了线索倒也不用担心,游戏中有一只可爱的小黄鸭能随时为你排忧解难。区别于传统解谜游戏中直接剧透答案的粗暴设计,小黄鸭给你答案的模式有些类似于教育学理念中鹰架理论。当玩家首次点击小黄鸭请求提示时,系统只会给出模糊的方向性指引(例如你为什么不多调查一下某某人?);若玩家依旧毫无头绪并持续请求,提示才会逐渐具象化,精确到特定的搜索词与出处(例如尝试在某本杂志中搜索某人的名字)。在后期甚至会用逻辑反问的形式,提醒玩家留意已离婚但未改姓等隐蔽的家族分支结构。将推理主导权始终交还给玩家,可以说是最能维护休闲玩家通关流畅度的设计了。 总的来说,尽管没有预想中破解杀人案的刺激感,但本作足够的推理乐趣已经成功满足了笔者在头脑风暴这一方面的需求,在某一方面足够优秀,我想这足以成为我推荐它的理由。
Starts off interesting, then gets tedious, and the whole story is just one big anti climax. Homophobia is bad! Did you know that homophobia (in the 1930!) is bad? No interesting plot twists, or deeper mystery, just 'Homophobia is bad!'. If I wanted these kind of messages in the year of our lord 2026, I'd just open Twitter, or check the news.
游戏是好玩的,剧情也有吸引人,可我实在是晕人名,完全记不住!
*写在前面:搜出第18个鲁特里成员时会有一段剧情,影响成就,可以等待一会再操作 相当充实且有趣的作品! 游戏玩法基本可以概括为搜八卦,但对搜索的名词的准确性要求很高,所以基本杜绝了瞎搜的可能性。获取八卦的手段不仅有搜索引擎,还有报刊、书籍甚至专辑封面等等。有时一些关键的突破点就藏在某个小物品的角落里。这个过程远比我想象得更有沉浸感。特别是关了灯,面对一个小小的发光屏幕绞尽脑汁寻找突破口、一遍遍重读材料,用最抓马最猎奇最有想象力的思维去猜测剧情的时候,真的非常让人上瘾。当然同样让人上瘾的还有这爆炸的信息量,特别是在狂热DLC里搜到某一个家族的时候,我只能一边记备忘录一边小天才点读机似地把每一条都搜过去。我说外国人不许重名,谁支持谁反对? 如果说本体是尚可通过抓住岩壁上凸起的石块来勉强攀爬的险壁,狂热DLC就是一眼就能知道其中危机四伏的深沼,如果不是带着强目的性穿梭,很快就会顺着关键词一路陷下去然后抱着满满的备忘录和空空的脑袋从互联网的最末端爬出来。这点真的很有趣,有时感觉自己真的成为了紧咬线索不放的侦探。我另外很喜欢的一点是人物给的信息会是有误导的,然而可惜的是在DLC里这种误导也仅限于名字的误读(除了结尾),如果能加入一些人物基于自身立场而说谎或隐瞒某些事实,媒体为了博眼球而编造信息、需要寻找媒体自相矛盾的点,甚至在搜索时会出现傻瓜AI随机给你最深刻最直接最不绕弯子的回答,我觉得会更好玩!虽然游戏难度也会直线上升就是了。 剧情上其实整体没什么感触,虽早就听说是豪门大瓜但我原本料想的是乱伦/杀人/抢劫/结婚后才发现是亲戚这种,真不好意思啊鲁特里一家!倒是劳伦、萨姆和格温等几位角色给我留下了比较深刻的印象,知名作家aka传奇漏勺王劳伦当然不用多说,萨姆的坚定很动人,格温,说实话我一开始以为她会是作者安排用来讽刺豪门的混乱和堕落的角色,但她在剧情中的人设居然意外地正常且智慧。尤其是在狂热DLC。 何时有第二部,我要玩与鲁特里一家同行。 [spoiler]顺便一提,怎么感觉有犯罪出轨等不良反映的一查一个正统鲁特里,你们鲁特里家这啥基因啊[/spoiler]
不要小瞧我和小黄鸭之间的羁绊口牙!! os:数独好好玩好喜欢
I want to like this game, i really do.. Starting out it was very interresting, i am personally a big fan of mystery and exploration. But the game is somewhat lazy in its story telling, and it takes so many leaps of logic to make the story work that i gradually lost interrest and lost immersion. The game writers are very obviously american, and very very obviosly extremely political. So the game turns into a moral lecture on gay rights, it is another game where you really get the political messaging figurativly rammed down your throat.
Neutral. A very good ObraDinn-like, overall a good experience. Just have two problems with it personally: 1. the story is not that interesting or intriguing. mostly just family drama, unlike Obra Dinn. 2. near the end, i had a terrible time keeping track of everything. (i know, a me problem). there's just so much text to remember. maybe i should've been taking notes, idk.
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