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Rusty Lake: Roots

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4.4/5

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4.4

19 Reviews

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Rusty Lake: Roots
Description
James Vanderboom's life drastically changes when he plants a special seed in the garden of the house he has inherited. Expand your bloodline by unlocking portraits in the tree of life. Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by Rusty Lake, the creators of the Cube Escape...
Genre:
Adventure - Point-and-click - Puzzle
Tags:
Adventure, Indie, Story Rich, Atmospheric, 2D, show 11 more... Puzzle, Casual, Dark, Horror, Point&Click, Mystery, Gore, Logic, Psychological Horror, Surreal, Hidden Object
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4.4/5

( 19 Reviews )

4.4

19 Reviews

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Product details
2016, Rusty Lake, ...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 / 10, 1.8 Ghz Processor, 1 GB RAM, Direct X 9.0c compatible video card, Version 9.0c...
Time to beat
4 hMain
4.5 h Main + Sides
5 h Completionist
4.5 h All Styles

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Description
James Vanderboom's life drastically changes when he plants a special seed in the garden of the house he has inherited. Expand your bloodline by unlocking portraits in the tree of life.

Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by Rusty Lake, the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.

Key features:

  • Pick-up-and-play: easy to start but hard to put down
  • Unique storyline: experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree
  • More than 33 levels: the biggest Rusty Lake game so far is filled with puzzles
  • Full of suspense and atmosphere: switching from calm to very dark moments
  • Immersive soundtrack: each level has its own theme song and variations
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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
4 hMain
4.5 h Main + Sides
5 h Completionist
4.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Adventure - Point-and-click - Puzzle
Tags:
Adventure, Indie, Story Rich, Atmospheric, 2D, show 11 more... Puzzle, Casual, Dark, Horror, Point&Click, Mystery, Gore, Logic, Psychological Horror, Surreal, Hidden Object
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Mac OS X (10.11+)
Release date:
{{'2016-10-20T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
Rusty Lake / Rusty Lake
Size:
84 MB
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Posted on: November 13, 2023

sobuy

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Games: 282 Reviews: 35

Better than Rusty Lake Hotel

I consider this to be the best of the "Rusty Lake" series of games (considering: Hotel, Roots and Paradise). At its core, it is a series of puzzle games. In each "chapter" you have a series of inter-connected puzzles, and solving them unlock the next chapter (with some unlocking multiple branching chapters). Each chapter is part of an overall family tree and solving them slowly reveals the dramatic story. The family tree mechanic is a smart idea because it branches out, giving you a couple of chapters to choose from at the time: if you get stuck on one chapter you can go do another and come back later. It can also be solved in any order (except the finale, I think). The puzzles are simple and not very challenging. The story is tragic and weird with some disturbing and disconcerting parts. However, the "horror" classification is overrated. The game is kinda short, but much longer than "Hotel". Overall, it is an ok point and click puzzle game, and cheap, but it is not extraordinary.

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Posted on: February 9, 2025

Szin00

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Games: 90 Reviews: 2

Extreme good game

I love all Rusty Lake's games, this one is really amazing by telling the history of most characters and explaining lots of stuff on the franchise

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Posted on: February 9, 2025

A.G.B.

Games: 823 Reviews: 84

Even better

In a number of ways this is like the first entry. I will focus on how they differ instead of restating. This is a vast improvement on the already excellent original. It helps explain some of the stuff in Hotel not overtly but thematically. It's much better paced. The various areas and puzzles have much greater variety in part aided by the setting of the various homes through the generations of the family Vanderboom who suffer various traumas so you're inside of those places you're in the garden etc. The developers had gotten better at what they do and they also listened to feedback hence these improvements. You can now sometimes drag which opens up to new types of puzzles such as one where you color in a painting another where you use Ouija board etc. You do sometimes appear to be controlling one of the characters on screen. But other times you are this omniscient force affecting what's going on. You see a lot of varied situations and some of the people you do follow from birth through adulthood. This continues the trend of the developers poking at various anxieties, injury, death and other taboo sometimes it's really down to context such as how it opens on a morbid version of a proposal. Whilst the story itself is chronological you can complete a number of the levels in the order that you choose. Each time you complete one another will open up until you've completed that entire branch so at times you'll be able to choose between multiple different ones as the next one. I wasn't sure exactly where it was going but by the end I felt like they had done a really great job wrapping everything up and bringing everything together in a satisfying way. You can play this before Hotel. Neither of these spoil the other. I understand that there are people who have gotten a lot out of replaying Hotel after finishing this. I was impressed by how complete this feels considering the length and the fact that it is just one part of a franchise that now has over half a dozen entries.

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Posted on: March 5, 2025

Gacek_Fisher

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Games: 5 Reviews: 2

Roots Rusty Lake

I LOVE IT, I REALLY RECOMMEND TO EVERYONE

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Posted on: August 3, 2025

Kimotai_35

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Games: 37 Reviews: 5

Love all their games

Rusty lake and cube escape games are all amazing. unexpected and unique puzzles really great

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