The Roottrees are Dead

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/2754380/Th… Tell all your mystery loving friends and family to take a look!

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!

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.

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/27543… Español: store.steampowered.com/news/app/27543…

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/app/27543…

The Roottrees are Dead also received two honorable mentions, for Best Narrative and Best Debut. It's a big day for Evil Trout Inc :)

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.

@AdamCrolla It’s a common take. It could be because people are a little burned out from playing the base game right before, but it is more challenging. Some people prefer it though! It was not based on Rowntree - we only found out about the similarity after the game was published

@roottreesgame Just a quick thing… loved the main game but Rootlemania was too complex for me. That hunt button got abused, and by the final explanation I have to admit I was clicking thorough the dialogue as my interest had waned a bit. Just my personal opinion though 😅

The Roottrees are Dead is nominated for Outstanding Video Game at the 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards: glaad.org/releases/glaad…

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/awards/…

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.

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/Th…

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-202…

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"!

We are nominated for a bunch of Thinky Awards! - Game of the Year - Most Innovative Game - Best Expansion (Roottreemania) thinkygames.com/events/awards/

“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-be…

Roottrees made it onto another year end list. Such amazing company. Play all these games!

Love this fan art from byobyoman instagram.com/p/DRjzOxvDA5i/…

The Roottrees are Dead is on the New York Times list of best games of 2025! nytimes.com/2025/12/09/art… 😭😭😭

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-…

If you are interested, please wishlist the game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/Th…

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.