The official Twitter account for “The Roottrees are Dead,” a puzzle game where you piece together a family tree using the Internet circa 1998.
Joined March 2024
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15 Jan 2025
The Roottrees are Dead is now out on Steam!
Solve the mysteries of the Roottree family in this puzzle game that's been described as Return of the Obra Dinn meets Her Story:
store.steampowered.com/app/2…
Tell all your mystery loving friends and family to take a look!
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The Roottrees are Dead retweeted
Jun 11
A strange invitation, a house full of secrets and a machine that can hear echoes of the past: From the team behind @roottreesgame, The Incident at Galley House arrives on Steam July 14.
Watch the new trailer and wishlist it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3…
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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!
ALT A finalist badge for Best Narrative in the gamescom latam BIG festival
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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, is based on the game Type Help, which is also nominated for Best Free Game.
ALT Date reminder for Thinky Awards - Wednesday, February 4 at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm UTC
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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/…
Español: store.steampowered.com/news/…
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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.
store.steampowered.com/news/…
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Delighted to announce that William Rous' excellent game Type Help (Which we're remastering on Steam as The Incident at Galley House) is nominated for an IGF award for Best Narrative! It also received honorable mentions for Excellence in Design and Nuovo Award categories.
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The Roottrees are Dead also received two honorable mentions, for Best Narrative and Best Debut. It's a big day for Evil Trout Inc :)
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The Roottrees are Dead is nominated for Outstanding Video Game at the 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards: glaad.org/releases/glaad-ann…
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The Roottrees are Dead retweeted
29 Dec 2025
If you’ve got a spare minute, Thinky Awards voting is live! My highly partisan recos:
Community Game of the Year: @roottreesgame
Most Anticipated: Incident at Galley House
Best Content Creator: (dealer's choice)
thinkygames.com/events/award…
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25 Dec 2025
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.
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18 Dec 2025
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/2…
ALT A newspaper from The Roottrees are Dead in simplified Chinese.
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18 Dec 2025
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!
avclub.com/best-games-2025-c…
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17 Dec 2025
We are nominated for a bunch of Thinky Awards!
- Game of the Year
- Most Innovative Game
- Best Expansion (Roottreemania)
thinkygames.com/events/award…
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17 Dec 2025
Also, Type Help is nominated for "Best Free Game." We're remastering it as The Incident at Galley House, which is nominated for "Most Anticipated Game"!
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16 Dec 2025
“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)
gamespot.com/gallery/the-bes…
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12 Dec 2025
Roottrees made it onto another year end list. Such amazing company. Play all these games!
2025 was a massive year for indie games, and while plenty were worthy of players' time, these 15 titles are the best of the best. gamerant.com/the-15-best-ind…
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11 Dec 2025
Love this fan art from byobyoman instagram.com/p/DRjzOxvDA5i/…
ALT An illustration of a desk and old computer, plus evidence and a cork board from the game The Roottrees are Dead
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9 Dec 2025
The Roottrees are Dead is on the New York Times list of best games of 2025! nytimes.com/2025/12/09/arts/…
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4 Dec 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 :) npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-562…
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3 Dec 2025
Wow, Type Help is currently the third highest rated game of *all time* on the IFDB: ifdb.org/search?browse
The Incident at Galley House, our remaster of the game, is coming along great! Here's a couple pieces of artwork we haven't shown yet.
ALT A game screenshot from The Incident at Galley House of an Attic
ALT A game screenshot from The Incident at Galley House of a Kitchen
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3 Dec 2025
If you are interested, please wishlist the game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3…
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