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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 calling this a Beta Release and asking our players to report issues on our Steam Discussions.

Thanks so much to our translators: Rolf Klischewski, Alexander Neubert, Punda Translations, and Aurélien Folley.

The Roottrees are Dead has sold 100k copies!

[p][/p][p][/p][p]Last week we reached a major sales milestone: The Roottrees are Dead has sold over 100,000 copies on Steam! [/p][p][/p][p]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.[/p][p][/p][p]Later this month, we'll be releasing translations in Spanish, German and French, which we hope will allow even more players around the world to experience the intricacies of the mysterious Roottree family.[/p][p][/p][p]We also have launched the Steam page for our next project: The Incident at Galley House - if you enjoyed Roottrees and want to continue supporting us, one of the best things you could do is add it to your wishlist. [/p][p][/p][p]Again, thank you all so much![/p][p]-- The Roottrees Dev Team[/p]

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!)

Update Notes for June 16, 2025

- Renamed some people in FamilyDuko! to help the Secret Searchers
- Added more support for non-English languages

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