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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
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| Game update | Patch Notes for May 13, 2026 Italian language is now out of Beta. | — | |
| Game update | Update Notes for Apr 29 - Contains fixes for typos on French - Added simplified Chinese logo for Galley House for Chinese players. | — | |
| Community | The Roottrees Are Dead x Wax Heads Jeremy sat down with Murray from Wax Heads to discuss game design, writing, and 80s music. You can watch the whole interview here: We're also delighted to announce that we'll be in a Steam bundle with Wax Heads when it releases on May 5. (It's also available on Switch, PS5 and Xbox.). | — | |
| Game update | Urgent Fix: Database was corrupt In an earlier fix today, I somehow pushed out a corrupt database which meant that Simplified Chinese and Portuguese players couldn't search or input names properly. I also unfortunately did this right before a long dog walk, so I couldn't fix it for a couple of hours until I got back. It should be fixed now, and to say sorry here is a photo of my dog. - Robin "Evil Trout" Ward | — | |
| Game update | Small Patch for Apr 23, 2026 - Try to eliminate visual bug with lots of white glow on the screen | — | |
| Game update | Minor PT-BR Fixes - Addresses a couple issues with the PT-BR translation | — | |
| Major update | Now available in Mandarin! In December we launched The Roottrees are Dead in Simplified Chinese, and we were blown away by how well it was received. Within two weeks it had outsold every language except for English, and it continues to be played and well reviewed by new players every day. We wanted to thank our Chinese players by providing an update to the game which includes full voice acting in Mandarin. It is availabl… | 22714051 | |
| Major update | Brazilian armchair detectives, we have a challenge for you! The Roottrees are Dead is now available in Brazilian Portuguese. This is great timing, because we've also just been nominated for Best Narrative at the gamescom latam BIG Festival. Thanks to everyone who helped make this translation happen! P.S. Italian is next. | — | |
| Game update | Update Notes for Mar 17, 2026 PT-BR Fixes: - A piece of evidence in Roottreemania was not displaying properly - Made search terms for a particular article more lenient | — | |
| Game update | Patch Notes for March 16, 2026 - Translates some PT-BR names to make the text more consistent. | — | |
| Game update | Update Notes for Mar 13, 2026 - Fixes for some pt-br search results not working correctly. | — | |
| Game update | Patch Notes for March 5, 2026 -Adds support for Brazilian Portuguese -Translates Achievements in French, Simplified Chinese and PT-BR -Fixes some minor typos and issues. | — | |
| Community | Regional pricing update for Latin America Greetings, genealogists! Over the last year, we’ve learned a few things about our players around the world, including how pricing works in different countries. While Steam provides recommended regional prices, developers can adjust them to better reflect local purchasing power. We’ve taken a close look at how Roottrees is priced in parts of Latin America and lowered our regional pricing to make… | — | |
| Community | One Year of Roottrees The Roottrees are Dead has now been out for a whole year on Steam, and it’s been a wild ride! When we started this project, we only had a vague hunch that people would enjoy a game like this enough to buy it. We had no idea how many people it would reach and how well it would be received. Here’s some highlights: · We’ve sold over 200,000 copies of the game. That’s a mind-boggling number for a s… | — | |
| Major update | Now available in Simplified Chinese! Hello Genealogists! We’re excited to announce that as of today The Roottrees are Dead has been translated into Simplified Chinese! This is our most ambitious translation yet, as there is less overlap between Chinese and English than there was with French, German, and Spanish. In addition to translating all of the search results, we’ve revisited everything with text. This includes names on the t… | 21117602 | |
| Community | Nominate The Roottrees are Dead for a Steam Award The Steam Awards are currently accepting nominations, and if you enjoyed The Roottrees are Dead, nominating us would be really appreciated! We think we're a good fit for the Most Innovate Gameplay category, since there aren't many games about genealogy out there and we think our take on it is somewhat original. If you agree, you know what to do :) Thanks! | — | |
| Sale | The Cozy Crimes Bundle: The Roottrees are Dead and Little Problems We're delighted to be bundled with Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game as part of the Cozy Crimes Bundle. You can pick up both games for 20% off , and we recommend you do! | — | |
| Major update | The Roottrees are Dead is now in French, German, and Spanish After many months of hard work and an open beta, we're delighted to announce that you can now play The Roottrees are Dead in French, German, and Spanish. The game has roughly 100,000 words to translate, which is the length of a novel! Most players won't find every word of content, but it's important that it's all there for players who dig deep into our game universe. We're also happy to announc… | 19641467 | |
| Game update | Update Notes for July 21, 2025 - Contains fixes for French, German, and Spanish Translations. - An attempt to reduce confusion in the final cinematic where it might appear that your choice was incorrect briefly. | 19301620 | |
| Game update | The Roottrees are French, German and Spanish! (Beta) At long last, you can now play The Roottrees are Dead in French, German and Spanish! The game should auto detect your system language when you start it up, but in case it does not pick it correctly, there is now a "Language" setting you can change. There was a tremendous amount of text to translate, so you may encounter bugs, typos, and other translation issues . As a result, for now we are cal… | 19218338 | |
| Community | The Roottrees are Dead has sold 100k copies! Last week we reached a major sales milestone: The Roottrees are Dead has sold over 100,000 copies on Steam! This is mind-blowing. We never expected so many people to enjoy our little game, and the response has been overwhelming. It has exceeded every expectation we had, and we can't express how thankful we are. Later this month, we'll be releasing translations in Spanish, German and French , wh… | — | |
| Game update | Update Notes for June 19, 2025 Added a banner to the main menu for our new game, The Incident at Galley House . · Fixed more typos · Made one of Alphabet Davis' book titles more consistent · Updated translation support (coming soon!) | 18928561 | |
| Game update | Update Notes for June 16, 2025 - Renamed some people in FamilyDuko! to help the Secret Searchers - Added more support for non-English languages | 18886324 | |
| Game update | Update for May 27, 2025 Fixes a regression with "Search All Periodicals" where search results would not appear · Removed a double name from the first name list · Fixes a bug where searching for a missing article could keep displaying a warning message · Includes more support for non-English languages | 18626373 | |
| Game update | Update Notes for May 22, 2025 - A minor typo or two - More backend fixes and support for upcoming localization releases. | 18567839 | |
| Sale | The 90s Mystery Adventure Bundle The Roottrees are Dead is now in a bundle with Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer. You can pick up both awesome games together at a discount. We're calling this the 90s Mystery Adventure Bundle, because both games involve a lot of deduction and puzzle solving in the 90s. Time to dust off that plaid flannel, pop a CD out of its jewel case, and solve a mystery! | — | |
| Game update | Update Notes for April 22, 2025 - Added a piece of evidence to a list near the end of Roottreemania to make something more clear - Fixes a bug where you could lock in an incorrect occupation for a Roottreemania person - Makes it more clear where to find the Discord channel - More updated translation support | 18195343 |
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