Root

Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!

Root is a board game, tabletop and strategy game developed and published by Dire Wolf.
Released on September 24th 2020 is available on Windows and MacOS in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Japanese, Polish and Russian.

It has received 3,877 reviews of which 3,477 were positive and 400 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam and has a 60% discount.

The Steam community has classified Root into these genres:

Board Game Tabletop Strategy War Wargame Cute Indie Turn-Based Strategy Simulation PvP Singleplayer Multiplayer Touch-Friendly Asynchronous Multiplayer Card Game Puzzle Early Access Solitaire Top-Down Cartoony

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64bit version only)
Processor: Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Graphics card with DX11 or OpenGL 3.x capabilities
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 1 GB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X 10.11
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Graphics card with OpenGL 3.x capabilities
Storage: 1 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Oct. 2024

I'd like to discuss the pros and cons of ROOT digital version compared to its board game. I have played both of them. PROS 1-The digital version includes a relatively complete guide, and you can practice with AI, which is friendly to newbies. This empowers you to quickly grasp the rules, which is important when you're teaching someone who is unfamiliar with the game. 2-In-game calculating does great job, including battles, control of clearings, win conditions, and more. 3-The undo action is more convenient in digital ROOT than in board games, making it especially user-friendly for Eyries. When playing as Eyrie, each move is clearly visible, allowing you to easily rearrange them according to your preferred order. 4-There's no need for setup in digital ROOT, and it costs less money overall. CONS 1-Some fascinating components are not available in the digital version, such as the landmarks pack and the hirelings initially introduced by the Marauder expansion (sigh), as well as the absence of three vagabonds. 2-There is generally less interaction in the digital version than in the board game. However, playing with voice chat can help compensate for this a little. 3-Occasionally there may be a black screen issue, especially when joining a non-live game or starting with a random faction. In conclusion, the digital version is a great way to inspire new players to enter the world of Root and allows friends to have fun online, even remotely. I hope you come to love Root and introduce it to your friends for a wonderful playtime.

May 2024

This is an amazing rendition of the board game Root. Personally I enjoy the digital version more, because it is easier to pick up since everything is managed automatically, and the option to play against AI is great when you don't have 3 friends to play with. However, the online multiplayer is not very stable from my experience. It is very buggy, and breaks often. My friend and I have attempted to play a match together multiple times with AI, and we could never make it through a full game without one of us getting frozen or stuck at a random point in someone's turn and having to resign. So the online multiplayer aspect needs some work and tons of bug fixes but if you are like me and are going to play alone against AI a lot, this isn't the end of the world. The online experience really needs a lot of fixes and is far from perfect...

March 2024

A well-done digital conversion for the board game. The included tutorials are probably better at explaining the game and each faction's nuances than any explanation I've seen for new players. Online is relatively active too. Despite the store page saying a 3rd party Dire Wolf account is needed, that's only necessary if you want to play over the internet. Local play VS bots and other players is doable without it.

Feb. 2024

My impressions I have seen many digital implementations of fantastic boardgames. Sadly, some of them were far from perfect. Thus it is with great pleasure that I can firmly say that ROOT version is great! - Rules implementation – first and most important thing – does the game works as per the rules? Yes! The amount of bugs / issues is minimal and all Base Game factions are implemented perfectly. - Artificial Intelligence – sometimes you do not have friends to play with. But is AI challenging? Is it behaving in more or less optimal way? Oh yeah, believe me the algorithms within the digital ROOT are really demanding despite occasional strange moves by computer. - Graphics and Music – the game is beautiful but not overly resource consuming. And music is fantastic – especially the one on the main screen! - Theme – the forest creatures are not only great looking but also funny! Just watch how do they play the theme song in Main Menu. Or how the AI was depicted on set-up screen, with computers as their heads. Somebody did a lot of great work not only mechanically implementing the game but to give to it so much needed depth and climate. - Drawbacks – there are couple of things which I do not like, like battle animations which you cannot skip or sometimes not so clear buildings on the main map, but they are minor nuisances. I am really glad that this implementation is so good and that I can wholeheartedly recommend it. ROOT is great game and its digital port keeps the high standard of the analog version. Highly recommended! For full version of review check my blog: [url=https://theboardgameschronicle.com/2020/10/16/root-digital-version-first-impressions/]FULL REVIEW

Dec. 2023

This is a great and easy-to-understand way to get into the game. If you've ever wanted to try the board game but don't have anyone who'd like to play with you (or just cant wrap your head around the rules) then this is a great start. The art style perfectly fits in line with the board games' aesthetic, the challenges offer new and exciting puzzles to keep the AI bots from getting stale, the game automates a lot of background systems and has a clear and concise set of tutorials to help you better understand the game in a way the board game never could. And if you still want to play with other people, it's got a thriving online community who are pretty eager to play the game no matter the details. One thing I will say that the digital version sorely lacks though, and it's not even a fault of the game but rather just the nature of video games, but the social aspect doesn't always come up as much a it does in the board game; Tabletalk is a big part of root and video games always seem to bring the worst out of players, so sometimes you'll get players who won't communicate at all, sometimes you'll get rage quitters, and sometimes you'll get people whining that you're letting another player win. Thankfully the game has a block button so you can weed out the toxic players should it even come to that, and there are still quite a few fine lads playing on this version, but I still just wanted to make sure whoever's reading this is aware of this.

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-60% 12.49€ 4.99€

8.6

3,477

400

Online players

188

Developer

Dire Wolf

Publisher

Dire Wolf

Release 24 Sep 2020

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