The Roottrees are Dead
Worth it · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jan 2025.
- Length
- 7.3h
- Value
- $2.05/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 25% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($15.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 25% ($14.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 510, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in March 2025. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 15 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $14.99 at 25 percent off matches the lowest price in the record. No sale on record has reached $9.36, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
This sale is doing real work. 71 at list, 76 today.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Rise of the Golden Idol ($13.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer ($19.99, scores 70).
86 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 638 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 987 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 178 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.3 hours; clearing it takes 15, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
72% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
294 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game understands one of the most satisfying feelings a detective game can give you: starting with one tiny clue and slowly watching it explode into an entire chain of people, relationships, documents, secrets, and family history. You search one name, which gives you another clue, which leads to another person, which suddenly explains something you found an hour ago. At first the amount of information keeps...
Makes you feel like a master of deduction. If you ever enjoyed going deep into an Internet rabbit hole I have a surprise for you. This game will give you that feeling and satisfaction of finding out more and more info from a tiny clue. The main game is insane and they somehow did an expansion with similar results. I feel the expansion, Roottreemania, kinda gave some obscure hints for you to follow and definitely...
Obra Dinn + Her Story. Attention to detail is critical. You can be stuck for hours if you don't read closely. Very satisfying when you eventually get it.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Roottrees are Dead scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2754380/the-roottrees-are-deadReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 2.
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