The Roottrees are Dead News

Update Notes for Mar 21, 2025

- Fixed a bug where "Search All Periodicals" would miss some Periodicals sometimes in Roottreemania.
- Fixed an incorrect date for a magazine
- Updated the newspaper image to fix a mistake
- Updated a lot of text to clean up punctuation and other mistakes.
- Other typos on evidence and search results

Patch Notes for March 11, 2025

This patch only contains fixes for typos and other text that was incorrect or misleading.

Thanks to our eagle-eyed investigators for pointing these out!

Patch Notes for Mar 3, 2025

New Rain effects! In Roottreemania, the intro now has a soothing rain visual/audio effect. It will also rain at random times throughout your mystery.
A new music track added! This one is an easter egg.
Fixes an issue where you could lock in an invalid portrait for the final person in The Roottrees are Dead.
Fixed bad cropping of one of the newly updated portraits.
Fixes several more typos. Thanks to our eagle eyed players for hunting them down.

Update for Febrary 26, 2025

This update changes the look of The Roottree Sisters (and our logos and key art, etc. - Trailer will be updated soon) The original piece was the first one illustrated for the game, and over the development we learned more about what we wanted the style to look like and got more comfortable working with our artist. Hopefully it's not too weird to swap it out, but I think most people will prefer the new art!
We've added some extra clues and minor artwork changes to differentiate between two siblings that people had trouble with.
There's a new visual clue in a couple pieces of art to help identify a family member who appears in a group photo.
Also, some other minor visual touch ups to a few other pieces of art.
Fixes a typo in a series of adventure novels
More tweaks to allow for game translations.

Update Notes for February 24, 2025

- FIX: Uses a new approach to temporary files to hopefully make save files more robust when using aggressive virus scanners
- FIX: Uses more complete Godot builds which might help compatibility for some people.
- FIX: Cursor keys moved between evidence when in the notebook and editing text.
- FIX: Pressing a button on the main menu in 16:10 had a black box behind it
- UX: More tweaks for non-English language support
- Fixes one "occurence" of a typo. Get it? It should have been "occurrence."