The Roottrees are Dead

@roottrees.com

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The official BlueSky account for “The Roottrees are Dead,” a puzzle game where you piece together a family tree using the Internet circa 1998. Developed by: https://bsky.app/profile/eviltrout.com

A badge that shows we're a finalist for Best Narrative at Gamescom LatAm BIG Festival
Date reminder for Thinky Awards - Wednesday, February 4 at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm UTC
Confidential Killings logo.
The Roottrees are Dead as part of the Steam Detective Fest
A newspaper in Simplified Chinese from the game, The Roottrees are Dead
Fan art of The Roottrees are Dead. It’s an illustration of the desk and computer and cork board.
A banner for The Indie Game Awards featuring The Roottrees are Dead as a 2025 nominee for best narrative game.
The Cozy Crimes Bundle image featuring Little Problems and The Roottrees are Dead
The Roottrees are Dead: Over 100,00 copies sold!
To all of our internet detectives and spider searchers, How would you feel if I told you that there's something very weird hiding in this game? It's not like anything else in Roottrees. But that's because it was built as an homage to a different game series, after Eviltrout and I had discussions with one of their developers early in the production of Roottrees. I must warn you. This one's kind of... different. Reaching the end of this search will take larger leaps of logic and outside the box thinking than anything else you're asked to do in game. In all honestly, it's the type of puzzle that admittedly won't be for some of you. When it's all over, you might read about how it was solved and think "How was anyone ever expected to find that?" And the answer is that we actually weren't expecting anyone to, really. Over the years I've always loved reading articles, or seeing videos about games/movies/books from my past still revealing their secrets years later. Part of the appeal of hiding something like this, to me anyways, was the thought that "What if on the one year, five year, or even ten year anniversary I could announce there's something hidden in the game that nobody had ever found?" But more recently we've thought... why not give our community a chance while we have a ton of people still engaged in our discord (Who even knows if discord will exist in ten years) Collectively, if you contribute to solving the puzzle, you can be part of something pretty special to us. Some of the information we hid a while back is about to become public. And so knowing that we were about to tell our community about the existence of this puzzle we've also adjusted the final "reward" to include a juicy new piece of information that (whoever finds first) can share in this discord. Meaning if you do reach the end of the journey... maybe you can help us with a major announcement. Knowing this treasure hunt exists might simply be enough of a hint for all of you get this whole thing…
The new illustration of The Roottree Sisters from The Roottrees are Dead
The main room in The Roottrees are dead, showing the family tree on the wall.
An illustration of an old comic book. The title is Mystery Comics No. 32. There is a picture of a detective holding a magnifying glass.