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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…

29 August 2020

Root is a card & board game developed by Dire Wolf Digital, released 29 August 2020 on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and Mac.

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What Root is

Root is a card & board game game developed by Dire Wolf Digital and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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!
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Root launched on 29 August 2020, within three weeks of Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades and Factorio. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades, Factorio.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

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When did Root come out?
Root was released on 29 August 2020 for Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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