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2025PCSteam Deck playable98 % positive19.50 €

A detective puzzle set in the 1998 internet: you dig through websites and archives to gather clues and reconstruct the family tree of the secretive Roottree dynasty piece by piece.

  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Lots to discover
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
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The closest matches for The Roottrees Are Dead are Hypnospace Outlaw, Thimbleweed Park and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Roottrees Are Dead special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Hypnospace Outlaw

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2019PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable96 % positive−75 % 16.79 € 4.19 €

Brings what grabs you about The Roottrees Are Dead: lots to discover, puzzles to figure out and a strong story.

You play a volunteer moderator in a surreal 90s-style internet, digging through fake websites, emails and apps. You solve small cases, uncover hidden pages and enjoy nostalgic humor wrapped around a surprisingly serious story.

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Thimbleweed Park

Lots to discover

A loving throwback to classic LucasArts point-and-click adventures, where you swap between five characters to solve a strange murder in an odd small town. Dark humor, meta jokes and interlocking puzzles are its main appeal.

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

Lots to discover

A stylish puzzle adventure set in a surreal hotel, where you play a woman unraveling a layered mystery told through stark black-and-white art, film noir influences and clever riddles. Non-linear exploration and a notebook full of clues give a genuine detective feel.

Flower, Sun, and Rain

Lots to discover

As the searcher Sumio Mondo, you explore a resort island stuck in a time loop and solve quirky, often cryptic puzzles. A surreal, offbeat Suda51 story with plenty of dark humor.

The Case of the Golden Idol

Distinctive, stylised art style

You investigate twelve baffling deaths spanning centuries, gathering clues in pixel-art crime scenes and piecing together names, motives and sequences into your own theory. Pure deduction with little hand-holding makes it feel like genuine detective work.

Myst: Masterpiece Edition

Lots to discover

You explore the mysterious island of Myst alone and travel through magical books to other worlds, unraveling their puzzles and the story behind them. A quiet, atmospheric puzzle adventure with no combat, where observation and thinking are everything.

Kathy Rain

Distinctive, stylised art style

A story-driven point-and-click adventure set in the 90s: as journalism student Kathy you investigate your grandfather's mysterious death. Moody mystery, pixel art and classic inventory puzzles shape the journey.

The Rise of the Golden Idol

Distinctive, stylised art style

A deduction-driven detective puzzler where you solve 20 bizarre crime scenes in 1970s America by gathering clues, identifying people and piecing together events yourself. There is no hand-holding, only your own logic and observation.

Puzzle Agent 2

Distinctive, stylised art style

Telltale's puzzle adventure, drawn in Graham Annable's distinctive sketchy style, sends FBI puzzle investigator Nelson Tethers back to eerie Scoggins. Logic brainteasers drive a quirky, unsettling mystery full of deadpan humor.

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