Our little game has done phenomenally well in China. To say thank you, today we've launched a full Mandarin voiceover! store.steampowered.com/news/app/275...

A badge that shows we're a finalist for Best Narrative at Gamescom LatAm BIG Festival

We're nominated for Best Narrative at the Gamescom Latam BIG Festival. Also, we recently released Brazilian Portuguese, which should be of interest to our Latin American players!

Save 6% on Outstanding Video Game Nominees for the 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards on Steam

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.

The Roottrees are Dead - Regional pricing update for Latin America - Steam News 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.

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 - One Year of Roottrees - Steam News Looking back at the year we've had since releasing The Roottrees are Dead

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

GLAAD ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR THE 37th ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS | GLAAD “HEATED RIVALRY,” “STRANGER THINGS,” “PLURIBUS,” “ABBOTT ELEMENTARY,” “THE HUNTING WIVES,” “HACKS,” “SEVERANCE,” “LAS CULTURISTAS CULTURE AWARDS,” “I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER,” “ON SWIFT HORSES,”...

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.

Vote in the 3rd annual Thinky Awards · Thinky Games Vote for the best thinky game of 2025, your most anticipated game, and your favorite content creator in the latest Thinky Awards.

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.

The Best Video Games of 2025 Almost all of them are independently developed, which speaks to the state of the games industry

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 A.V. Club's best games of 2025 Unsurprisingly, the best games of 2025 came from the fringes of the industry. Here's what The A.V. Club's games critics loved the most this year.

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.

The 3rd annual Thinky Awards · Thinky Games We're celebrating the very best thinky games of 2025 in the latest Thinky Awards.

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"!

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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

The Best PC Games Of 2025 More games than ever are being released on PC, but we've narrowed down that sizable number to the 10 best we played this year.

“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...

Top 10 Video Games of 2025

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 best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff members and contributors round up their favorite games of 2025.

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 best video games of 2025 Try your luck as a museum curator, detective or samurai

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.