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The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
Roots of Pacha is a indie, farming sim and pixel graphics game
developed and published by Soda Den.
Released on April 25th 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 10 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 3,801 reviews of which 3,535 were positive and 266 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam with a 40% discount, but you can find it for 12.51€ on K4G.
The Steam community has classified Roots of Pacha into these genres:
Indie
Farming Sim
Pixel Graphics
Life Sim
Online Co-Op
Relaxing
Dating Sim
Crafting
RPG
Casual
Romance
Exploration
Building
Sandbox
Immersive Sim
Agriculture
Cozy
Simulation
Cute
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Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Roots of Pacha:
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| English | |||
| German | |||
| French | |||
| Korean | |||
| Spanish - Spain | |||
| Simplified Chinese | |||
| Traditional Chinese | |||
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| Portuguese - Brazil |
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 or greater
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2 gb dedicated video card, shader model 3.0+
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: Mac OSX 10.15+
- Processor: 2 Ghz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2 gb video memory, OpenGL 2
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Steam Deck OS
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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I really love this game. Its super creative, pretty to look at and there is lots to do. I followed the development of it for years. However, I only have 30 hours because I always end up getting frustrated. I think it needs some real quality of life changes. So many things are hard for no reason. Several things take too many clicks to accomplish like auto sorting or auto transfer. Its not really auto at all. There should just be one button to allow us to do it. We also should be able to craft and add items to machines from storage. Its such a pain have to hold the item than click on the machine for everything. A little bit of automation would go a long way in terms of enjoyment, for me anyway. But I still recommend the game, especially if you are more patient than me. Its very rich in terms of the game loop, artwork, and creativity. Just wish that for a cozy game it was simpler to play.
This might be the only farming sim I've ever played that has a system for domesticating crops over time! It has a lot of unique features that I really enjoy, like the mount system. Some minor complaints: - The skintones for Black and brown characters are usually really ashy/desaturated, which is unfortunate. Please, give them some colour! Dark skintones are vibrant IRL! - Darker-skinned NPCs almost always have straight hair, and it would be nice to see more afrotextured hairstyles - both for NPCs and the player. - Character designs in general often feel a bit clunky/take me out of the setting somewhat; there's a blonde girl with pigtails who looks like she stepped out of the 2000s, for example. - Romance candidates are generally very young and unappealing to me as a 30+ year old, while all the NPCs I WOULD romance are unmarriagable/married/old/whatever. - Depictions of prejudice between clans are shallow and very surface-level "racism is bad and only happens because we're scared of people who are Different!" which feels a bit... ehhh... ignorant of the actual reasons prejudice and racism occur, maybe? I can't expect a farming sim game to go super deep into that, but I dunno. I like the fantasy of having a clan full of people who all look different from one another (various skintones, ethnicities, etc) but it feels absurd to have that and ALSO have this weird, shallow metaphor for racism thrown in too. I'm sure I had other criticisms on this subject but it's been a little while since I last played so I don't fully remember the plot now ^^; When you combine this with the ashy skintones for darker-skinned characters it sort of feels like... well, you're trying to be inclusive and avoid racial stereotyping, but I'm not sure you fully understand the issues you're trying to avoid! And now for some praise: - I LOVE the tool system. Having one tool that does everything instead of constantly having to switch between things on a hotbar is such a good choice. - I love the fishing minigame! It's very unique and I really enjoy it compared to other fishing mechanics (even as someone who generally loves those). - The flute-taming mechanic is WONDERFUL. I love that we're befriending the animals of the land and respecting them, the way Indigenous societies across the world often do, rather than just treating them as a conquest to be forcibly "tamed". - The crops system, like I mentioned. The crops we start with are the indigenous varieties, which I've never seen before in a farming game like this. It feels like the devs made an attempt to incorporate prehistoric humans' and Indigenous peoples' relationships to the land in general with this game; I don't know enough to say which cultures and societies they might have drawn inspiration from though, nor how 'well' they've done so (see my criticisms above). But it feels very different to most farming sim games and I like it a lot, and can appreciate the effort put into this. - The UI and sound design are very fun and enjoyable to me. - I LOVE the relationship the player character has to the NPCs. The clan system and the way bonds between people are emphasized, the way we're introduced to NPCs with "you know this person as..." etc, it all feels very non-colonial, which is a rarity in a genre that is generally just full of Colonialism Simulators TM. In general I absolutely recommend this game if you enjoy the farming sim genre, especially if you've gotten bored with the other games available to you and are looking for something with a bit of a fresh spin on it.
So, normally, I don't bother to review farming sims - they have a dedicated playerbase and fangroup and don't really need my help However, this one is kind of special - I've recommended it to two of my best friends and even bought it for a sibling, so, I thought I'd throw my impressions of the game from the smattering of time I've spent with it There's no combat - gonna go ahead and get that out of the way - like, if you enjoy Harvest Moon's more laid back take (as opposed to Rune Factory or Stardew's combat elements) then this will be right up your alley The gimmick of being set in the stone age is very well thought out and permeates every inch of the game - it feels like a Saturday Morning Cartoon take on the subject and is very endearing. You play the plains dwelling adopted grandson of a loving elderly pair of siblings trying to help your tribe get started in a new territory they've just wandered into. The way you unlock and improve farming ties back into the game's theming - farming is very little understood by your tribe (your grandfather is the expert on this and 'by expert' I mean 'he sort of heard about the concept' and is figuring it out as he goes along with your help) so, it's up to you to experiment and breed new types of plants The farming system itself is very robust - the watering system relies on ancient early human concepts like irrigation and ollas (an underground watering system from human antiquity that you refill every few days - and can be bought from Reese if you don't want to craft them) that allow you to tend your fields very quickly at the start of the day and don't take more than a month or so of your first year to unlock. A far cry from how long it usually takes to unlock sprinklers and other 'auto waterers' in other games - while still adhering quite well to the prehistory theme The fishing in the game works in a similar way - there's a fishing 'expert' (similar to your grandfather) in the tribe who tells you what they know and then leave you to explore and study the fish you find in the various bodies of water. There's hunting - mining - all of them follow the same concept of being one of humanity's early members just coming to grips with ideas like tools and farming and fishing - even the ranching! At the start of the game you can tame animals - but they're, quite frankly, rather ♥♥♥♥ and drop items very rarely and are really slow. To counter this, there's a breeding system - which, if indulged in properly, can even lead to unique pelt and skin colors with livestock that can drop multiple rewards a day You can have offspring - they grow from infants to toddlers and then to children (I'd like to see them go to young adults or teens - but children is already farther than a lot of farming sims go) the romance options at the opening of the game is only a taste - there are 8 male options and 8 female options and they run quite the gamut of age and appearance. The cast is far larger than you'd expect for a farming sim - and they're quite far from the usual one note characters you find in these games. Like, there's this little kid who's missing a leg and he walks around with a cane and it's really cute and there's this lesbian couple and one of them dresses like a wolf and they adopted this kid who's a fashion expert and there's this older coupe who live on the beach and like to spend all their time surfing It's all very sweet and very tongue-in-cheek with the humor (your grandfather is a dad-joke generating machine) they have a ton of personality and I've become quite attached to them in the hours I've been playing The world itself is astonishingly large for this type of game - complete with a huge mountain and a savannah (a place you can hunt which, little tip, get the bird traps early on and lay them in every one of the hunting spots. You can collect up to 70 pieces of meat a day - allowing you to fill your dryers and grills with meat as a nice tidy profit - allowing you to go a few days between hunting so you can focus on other things) and even some basic sailing mechanics The music and soundwork is wonderfully done - calm contemplative tunes transition wonderfully into cheerful bops depending on what character you're interacting with and what zone you're in - honestly, this music is good enough to listen to while you're playing other games if their music doesn't really work for you The whole package - all of it - is wonderfully fun and I intend to keep on recommending it to everyone I know. Whether at half price or full price (at the time of this review the game is only 13 dollars - imo, a steal) if you enjoy cozy laid back life sims with endearing characters, charming music and a real sense of fun - then you can't go wrong with Roots of Pacha
So for years this game has been recommended to me. Honestly I was put off by the terrible chibi art used in all advertising. I went looking for the negative reviews that all said the game was just another stardew valley rip off with little unique to it. After playing some real bad cozy games lately I thought it couldn't be worse than those so lets try it. This game is amazing. I can't believe I waited so long to try it, it is so unique and they seem to have done so much research. The interactions you have with everyone are deep and moving, the culture is beautiful. Just as I thought I was reaching mid to late game two new large areas open up with their own caves. Outstanding. And best of all the chibi art used in advertising is literally no place in the game. Why on earth they used that terrible chibi art and not the adorable pixel art IN the game I can't understand. There is so much unique to this game, honestly I got a little teary eyed when we meet this one family that looks very Ethiopian, which is where I trace my roots, I befriended her and got in the mail Injera which is a staple food for me, I was shocked they would do so much research, the character even does a dance very common in the rural area still to this day. I wonder how many small things I am missing because I am not familiar with the roots of the people being represented. But if you don't care about any of that, you can ride almost any animal, I haven't seen a breeding mechanic like this before and it rocks, you can upgrade your trinkets to be better in almost all categories, I have never seen a game actually grow your children. The music slaps. If you like cozy games you have to play this.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Roots of Pacha is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Roots of Pacha is currently available at a 40% discount. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Roots of Pacha received 3,535 positive votes out of a total of 3,801 achieving a rating of 8.94.
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Roots of Pacha was developed and published by Soda Den.
Yes, Roots of Pacha is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Roots of Pacha is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Yes, Roots of Pacha is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Yes, Roots of Pacha is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Roots of Pacha is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Roots of Pacha does not support VR.
Roots of Pacha offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Roots of Pacha includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Roots of Pacha. Explore additional content available for Roots of Pacha on Steam.
No, Roots of Pacha does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Roots of Pacha does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Roots of Pacha is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Soda Den
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