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Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.

Roots Devour is a strategy, exploration and atmospheric game developed by Rewinding Games and published by GCORES PUBLISHING.
Released on January 27th 2026 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: Simplified Chinese and English.

It has received 316 reviews of which 246 were positive and 70 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 13.31€ on Steam with a 10% discount.

The Steam community has classified Roots Devour into these genres:

Strategy Exploration Atmospheric Lovecraftian Horror Dark Adventure Psychological Horror Card Game Resource Management 2D Deckbuilding Stylized Survival Horror Multiple Endings Story Rich Singleplayer Indie Roguelite Puzzle

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10 or later
  • Processor: 2Ghz or better
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 280x768 minimum resolution, DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible

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Jan. 2026
Amazing game, way better and more then what I expected. I killed Owl by accident, it is very easy to do, and I cried. I restarted the entire game just so I could avoid killing Owl. Devs, please make it more clear that you are about to permanently kill the NPCs. Not just the event that asks you to kill them but, in general when you drag your roots to them there should be a warning before it kills them. It broke my heart, I still feel bad I thought I was picking them up.
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Jan. 2026
So, in the discussions I’ve seen a lot of misconceptions about this game and I wanted to give my two cents to clear some of them up. I love this game. It was always on my most anticipated of 2026 list and I was so happily blindsided when it was released yesterday. There are a few rough edges that need smoothing, especially with the localisation, but it’s exactly what I hoped it would be. What it isn’t: Choices Matter. You are going to come across story events, and especially “companions” that you can accidentally or not accidentally kill. You may not even realise that that is a choice you are making or that you have been “locked” into that path already. You are an eldritch amoral abomination. The ways of mortals are mostly beneath your ken. And can you help it if you don’t understand your own strength and how fragile flesh can be? But also: you are an eldritch amoral abomination, and sometimes death isn’t as final as many mortals think it is. Don’t worry so much about it. What it isn’t: A Skill Tree. This is a strategy game. Yes, there is an extensive upgrade tree for you to sink your blood into, but these “mutations” to the forest critters you come across aren’t truly as make or break as you think they might be. Upgrades to starting blood and water definitely are, and the “Omens”, upgrades walled behind achievements, are definitely extremely important. But blood as a currency is easily farmed and if you go back to explore the older maps you’ll quickly max out everything available that you can spend it on. And, if you don’t know what you’re doing on a level, no amount of upgrades on the tree are going to help you. What is important? Your loadout: what trinkets you bring on an outing and what cards you pick for your decks. The way you spend those cards. The way you spend your blood and water. After completing a level you might feel all powerful and go back and spread your tendrils as far as you can stretch them. And then you try the new stage and suddenly your as stunted as that ficus in the corner of your bedroom you swear you’re going to water. So don’t worry so much about your choices in the meta. Be like a tree and go where the flow of blood and water will take you. These mortal concerns are not for one such as you. What are your concerns? Spreading your roots and branches until they devour the world. (And as for these accusations of using AI voices? I have no idea what they’re talking about. I haven’t heard a voiced line in this game outside the trailer.)
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Jan. 2026
Incredibly interesting evil plant game. Plays similar to Cultist Simulator, but you're a giant evil plant extending through an evil forest discovering all of its evil secrets. There are some mild translation errors, like the game/run over screen being, "evacuated" (which I assume means you retreat back into the depths), but most of the dialogue is fairly spot on. A very relaxed (but definitely evil) game that I'm excited to keep playing.
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Jan. 2026
Game is pretty slick. Reminds me of carrion even if the gameplay is fundamentally different. If you want to play as the bad guy I recommend this game.
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Jan. 2026
Interesting and strategic Evil Plant Simulator. I enjoyed the demo, and can see how this has already been refined and improved, though there are minor issues with the text in places - it's still perfectly easy to follow. I'm curious to see how it develops: it's a kind of horror tactical roguelike about connecting your tree to sources of blood and balancing resources as you expand, extending the story as you go. The trailer does a good job of covering things if you didn't get a chance to play the demo.
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Roots Devour is currently priced at 13.31€ on Steam.

Roots Devour is currently available at a 10% discount. You can purchase it for 13.31€ on Steam.

Roots Devour received 246 positive votes out of a total of 316 achieving a rating of 7.29.
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Roots Devour was developed by Rewinding Games and published by GCORES PUBLISHING.

Roots Devour is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Roots Devour is not playable on MacOS.

Roots Devour is not playable on Linux.

Roots Devour is a single-player game.

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Roots Devour
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