Root
Fair · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Value
- $9.37/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX11 or OpenGL 3.x capabilities, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!
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
It has never been cheaper than $4.49. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ultimate General: Civil War ($29.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats A Game of Thrones: The Board Game - Digital Edition ($19.99, scores 28).
Of the 767 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 396 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.6 hours; clearing it takes 69, which is 43 times the campaign.
At 1.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
38% start to <1% 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
168 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 04:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a great adaptation of one of the greatest board games of all time. The only downside is how long it takes to bring the new expansions from the IRL game to this version
This game can become addictive. First, you need to spend some time learning the rules of how each of the clans operate. I watched a couple YouTube videos but really picked up the nuances from repeated game play. In the beginning, most of my hours were spent as the cat clan with a strategy of trying to dominate the board. I usually lost. The better strategy is to develop your buildings and maximize points from cards...
Playing this feels like having a dedicated GM sitting with you, guiding you through your turns. Even though it mostly just restricts you to valid actions, it really helps you get a feel for how everything works. It's a much better way to learn the game compared to playing it physically and just relying on a rulebook. Because let's be real, the game is incredibly complex, haha. Every single faction (the different...
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Cite this score
Root scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/965580/rootReviews 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 1.
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