The GLAAD Media Awards are today, and The Roottrees are Dead is nominated for Outstanding Video Game! To celebrate, we've joined a Steam bundle with some of our fellow nominees: store.steampowered.com/bundle/69389...
Date reminder for Thinky Awards - Wednesday, February 4 at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm UTC
A reminder that The Roottrees are Dead is nominated for Game of the Year, Most Innovative Game, and Best Expansion at this year's Thinky Awards, streaming on Feburary 4th.
Our next game, The Incident at Galley House, is based on the game Type Help, which is also nominated for Best Free Game.
We’ve taken a close look at how Roottrees is priced in parts of Latin America and lowered our regional pricing to make it more accessible to local players. store.steampowered.com/news/app/275...
Español: store.steampowered.com/news/app/275...
The Roottrees are Dead is now a year old! In this post we take a look back at all the cool stuff that's happened since.
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Confidential Killings logo.
If you like detective games, remember to check out our bundles. We're in one now with Confidential Killings, a noir golden-idol-esque game about solving murders in classic Hollywood.
The Roottrees are Dead as part of the Steam Detective Fest
We're part of the Steam Detective Fest. You can pick up the game for 20% off right now
The Roottrees are Dead is nominated for Outstanding Video Game at the 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards: glaad.org/releases/gla...
Thanks! We’ve been on a bunch of critics’ year end lists lately so more people are learning about the game.
Reminder to vote for the Thinky Awards! If you're into deduction games that'll have you busting out a physical notebook, @roottrees.com is nominated in a few categories. Also, The Incident at Galley House should be your "Most Anticipated Game."
As for "Best Content Creator," follow your instincts!
Happy Holidays from Evil Trout Inc! Here's a little Christmas Card we made to thank our fans for an amazing year and to tease our next game, The Incident at Galley House.
I've been making top-ten GOTY lists every year for more than a decade, and this might have been the hardest ever to narrow down. What a year for video games!
Here are the 10 best games of 2025: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Thanks to Polygon for including us on their list of best games of 2025!
A newspaper in Simplified Chinese from the game, The Roottrees are Dead
We're delighted to announce that The Roottrees are Dead is now available in Simplified Chinese! This was our most ambitious translation to date and we hope that it means even more people can enjoy the game.
We're also 20% off for the Winter Sale!
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A newspaper in Simplified Chinese from the game, The Roottrees are Dead
We're delighted to announce that The Roottrees are Dead is now available in Simplified Chinese! This was our most ambitious translation to date and we hope that it means even more people can enjoy the game.
We're also 20% off for the Winter Sale!
store.steampowered.com/app/2754380/...
The Roottrees are Dead made the Onion AV Club’s best games of 2025 list.
Also, Type Help, the next game Evil Trout Inc. is working on, is on the list too!
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Sorry, after much deliberation we realized the game is only really good with a keyboard and mouse. Our next game will have controller support though and consoles as an option.
As always, please do check out the other nominees. There are so many amazing thinky games worth checking out.
We are nominated for a bunch of Thinky Awards!
- Game of the Year
- Most Innovative Game
- Best Expansion (Roottreemania)
Also, Type Help is nominated for "Best Free Game." We're remastering it as The Incident at Galley House, nominated for "Most Anticipated Game"!
thinkygames.com/events/awards/
The Roottrees Are Dead is in Game Informer’s 2025 Top 10 Games of the Year! Be sure to read the full list of our Top 10 Games of the Year to learn more. gameinformer.com/best-of-2025...
#GOTY #GOTY2025 @roottrees.com
“with a compelling mystery to unravel, it'll dig into your brain just like falling down a Wikipedia rabbit hole.”
Thanks so much for including us on this list of awesome games! (Play them all)
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Roottrees made it onto another year end list. Such amazing company. Play all these games!
Fan art of The Roottrees are Dead. It’s an illustration of the desk and computer and cork board.
Love this fan art from byobyoman! www.instagram.com/p/DRjzOxvDA5...
The Roottrees are Dead is on the New York Times top ten games of 2025! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/a...
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Aw thanks! A shorter game that’s similar is A Case of Fraud. Otherwise we have The Incident at Galley House out next year and who knows after that!
The Roottrees are Dead made NPR's best games of 2025 list. We're still blown away at the reception our little game has had :) www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
Game artwork for a Kitchen in The Incident at Galley House
Artwork of an Attic from The Incident at Galley House
Wow, Type Help is currently the third highest rated game of *all time* on the IFDB: ifdb.org/search?browse
This is a great excuse to mention that The Incident at Galley House, our remaster of the game, is coming along great! Here's some new artwork we haven't shown yet.
The Economist named The Roottrees are Dead as one of the best video games of 2025. That's pretty cool! www.economist.com/culture/2025...
Ah thanks! It really means a lot to us.
If you enjoyed The Roottrees are Dead, please consider nominating us for a Steam Award: store.steampowered.com/news/app/275...
A banner for The Indie Game Awards featuring The Roottrees are Dead as a 2025 nominee for best narrative game.
Wow! The Roottrees are Dead has been nominated for Best Narrative Game at the Indie Game Awards!
