
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.
Latest in each market: best CN #77, worst FR #77 · 2 markets collected
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 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 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 1278 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
奥伯拉丁的回归后继有人了(点头) 希望业界每隔几年都能出一个这种做题游戏,防止大伙儿老年痴呆了(笑)
10/10!太好玩了...和朋友沉浸式6小时本体疯狂讨论疯狂盘逻辑,没点过一次小黄鸭看提示就全部完整啃下来了!!!整个游戏的文本+故事性逻辑超完美,不算烧脑但需要很细心。游戏内的笔记本超难用,全靠场外用纸笔土办法来盘,整整盘了6张A4纸巨满足!狂热和全成就也要继续啃完<(* ̄▽ ̄*)/
做题做到后面都快痛哭流涕了,好题多做也不是让你这样出题的。 如果说《金偶像谜案》是(完型)填空式推理中的佼佼者,那么《鲁特里一家死了》就是在(关键词)搜索式推理这个类别里勉为其难做到了最好,因为这个类别在我看来本来就不咋地,大部分时间都花在寻找该死的线索上,再加上剧情也很难写得吸引人,美国家庭伦理系列剧,那烂裤裆的破事一大堆。结果一波未平一波又起,本来以为打完了又给你整个大的。 要放在一起比较的话,我会认为《金偶像》>本作>《真探》。 全游戏表现最佳:《万恶之源》,片尾曲放这首歌太合适了。
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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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文本量非常大,本来以为是一个酣畅淋漓的推理,结果只是无聊的查一个家族的各种无聊八卦,很不适合我了,每次打开没玩多久就一直在打哈欠
一场疯狂的族谱分析和文件比对之旅,挖掘故纸堆,探索故事背后的秘密总是令人着迷。 挖掘族谱这事看起来应该没什么难度,想做成一个游戏就必须加入足量的障碍,比如: 反复更改的姓名,昵称和假名。 未标注具体人名的照片。 只提到部分名字的报道和文章。 分散在不同媒介上的同一个故事的不同侧面。 同名的家庭成员。 难以直接判断的家族成员年龄。 随时间变化改变的职业路线。 不一而足 此类游戏似乎慢慢发展出了一些原则,每个问题都必须锁定固定类型的关键信息算是一个(本游戏当中就是家庭成员的姓名,照片和职业),必须保证所有信息都完全公开算是一个,基本游戏当中信息相对透明且联系紧密,鲁特里狂热当中就需要更多的演绎和推理,我和很多玩家一样认为鲁特里狂热的信息更加难以定位,入口不清晰而且信息链被拉得更长,虽然让人感到疲惫,但带来的回报也同样丰厚。 主要问题可能出在游戏的辅助系统不够用上,在基本游戏中笔记系统和搜索功能还算OK,在鲁特里狂热中就显得笨拙且单薄了,由于很多关键词不明显且需要大量比对,如果能设计一个更加全面的辅助系统应该会让游戏过程愉快很多。 尽管推理游戏都有提示系统,但小黄鸭也算是其中的佼佼者,针对每个问题都有分步骤的恰到好处的提示,我也会去想如果完全没有提示系统会不会带来更加硬核且深刻的体验,但总归是个节省时间的好设计。
Played after playing The Incident at Galley House - too tough for me, and not enough of a narrative hook to keep me interested. This walked so Galley House would run.
文字太多了,而且说是解密,实则全是无聊的八卦,实在玩不下去
E mica sono rincoglionito, lo sapevo che era bellissimo, me lo dicevano tutti, ma temevo di rovinarmelo per colpa del mio discutibile inglese, per questo ho rimandato. L’italiano c’è, però, ma vi perdono. The Roottrees are Dead è un investigativo di quelli buoni, scuola Obra Dinn, il mistero si svela tre pezzi per volta e puoi arrivare a dama pure a tastoni (ma non troppo), sperimentando (ma non troppo) o per esclusione. Gli aiuti, che non mi vergogno mai di usare quando mi sento solo e sconfitto dalle mie fallimentari deduzioni, sono perfetti perché ti spingono a cercare nel posto giusto invece di consegnarti la soluzione. Cercare, esatto, perché questo albero di parenti disperati lo dovete ricomporre attraverso vecchie riviste, giornali, locandine, fotografie, tutto quello che vi capitaa a tiro e, soprattutto, usando l’internet degli anni novanta. E sulle prime tutto sembra perfetto, ma mi è sembrato presentarsi qualche attrito di troppo, qualche imperfezione nella ricerca, quando il campo si è fatto stretto a tal punto da somigliare a un vicolo cieco. Poi magari sono solo scarso io, mica lo escludo, ma pure il finale lascia un po’ di insoddisfazione tra i denti. Nonostante questo, però, l’ho appena finito e sono le 3:30 del mattino perché proprio non riuscivo a prendere sonno senza risolvere il mistero, pensavo ancora a loro mentre Robin Hood uccideva bambini sul grande schermo, ne voglio ancora. Vito’s Vote: 8 Trovi questa e altre recensioni sul substack di Vitoiuvara: https://vitoiuvara.substack.com/
别笑,我高难度没看提示通关的。。。
The Roottrees Are Dead is essentially one giant deduction puzzle centered around investigating the Roottree family using an in-game internet, research, and collected clues. This also brought back some nostalgia from elementary school, as it reminded me of those logic puzzles where you had to figure out the order of gummy bears (or other objects) based on the clues provided. This is a similar style of puzzle, except dramatically more complex and far more satisfying to solve. I also really liked how the game validates your answers in batches. It gives you enough confirmation to keep making progress while preventing you from simply brute-forcing random guesses across the entire family tree. It strikes a nice balance between rewarding correct deductions and preserving the challenge. I have only completed the main game so far and have not yet played Roottreemania, but the main experience alone was incredibly satisfying. I plan to come back to Roottreemania! If you enjoy detective games, deduction puzzles, or piecing together information from multiple sources, this is an easy recommendation
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