The Roottrees are Dead
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Players solve a mystery by investigating a family tree in this detective game. Released in 2025, the title has accumulated 4,473 reviews on Steam. It maintains a 97% positive rating, indicating strong reception from its audience.
Overview
The Roottrees are Dead is a 2025 Adventure game developed by Evil Trout Inc. and published by Evil Trout Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 8,578 player reviews, 97% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Evil Trout Inc. with publisher Evil Trout Inc. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 309,000 to 721,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Roottrees are Dead can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
8,578
Positive
97%
Steam appid
2754380
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0309K to 721K
units (median: 515K)
≈ $3.5M to $8.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Roottrees are Dead at roughly 309,000 to 721,000 copies, with a median around 515,000, derived from its 8,578 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $10.06Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.06 to $19.99, averaging $19.06 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.06 on 2026-03-20.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
MysteryPuzzleDetectivePoint & ClickAtmosphericStory RichInvestigationSingleplayer1990'sAdventureLogicInteractive FictionRetroIndieStylized2DCasualNoirImmersiveAlternate History
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Roottrees are Dead sold?
- indielist estimates The Roottrees are Dead has sold between 308,808 and 720,552 units (median 514,680), derived from its 8,578 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Roottrees are Dead?
- The Roottrees are Dead was developed by Evil Trout Inc. and published by Evil Trout Inc..
- When was The Roottrees are Dead released?
- The Roottrees are Dead was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does The Roottrees are Dead have on Steam?
- The Roottrees are Dead has 8,578 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Roottrees are Dead sold?
- indielist estimates The Roottrees are Dead has sold between 308,808 and 720,552 units (median 514,680), derived from its 8,578 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Roottrees are Dead?
- The Roottrees are Dead was developed by Evil Trout Inc. and published by Evil Trout Inc..
- When was The Roottrees are Dead released?
- The Roottrees are Dead was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does The Roottrees are Dead have on Steam?
- The Roottrees are Dead has 8,578 Steam reviews, of which 97% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Roottrees are Dead within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Evil Trout Inc.'s other releases and Evil Trout Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Roottrees are Dead sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Roottrees are Dead page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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