Root

Dire Wolf / Sep 24, 2020 / Indie, Simulation, Strategy

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That's more people than live in the Pitcairn Islands.

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!

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CPU	Not set	Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2 Can't tell	Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ or better Can't tell
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What's new

Root 2.1.2 Patch Notes

2025-12-12

We have another small patch update, with an adjustment to the Duchy and a bug fix for a known issue. Thank you for your feedback, Woodland warriors! Bug Fixes • The Duchy must now move at least one warrior out of the Burrow with Dig if able, to align with upcoming Law of Root clarification. • Spring Uprising warriors should now be able to be placed in the Lost City clearing during setup regardless of clearing selection order.

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What players say

Very Positive

92% positive, 3,676 reviews

Not recommended19 hrs played

Don't buy it if you wish to play solo against ai players. Right now it's unplayable against ai (unless you play vagabond) since the ai moves make zero sense. The ai seems oblivious of the actual scores in the game. Ai will prioritize to focus against the human player (although this could be a result of the first observation). This goes against its interest of winning the game. It will not bother making an effort...

199 found this helpful, 2026-01-16

Recommended181 hrs played

Decent overall, if you have played the actual board game. Does the job if you cant get a group to play IRL. Almost everything works as it should. You can play any DLC content, as long as the host of the game owns it, nice. It is easy to rejoin a game if you DC, game crashes etc. Issues: "Faction boards" in the digital version are missing a lot of the description available on the actual game boards. UI bug -...

39 found this helpful, 2026-01-19

Not recommended8 hrs played

I would recommend it except for the fact that the "Bundle" cannot be upgraded into. I regret buying the base game because I can no longer get the discount on the expansions.

100 found this helpful, 2026-06-09

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