Roots of Insanity is an adventure developed by Crania Games, released 5 April 2017 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Roots of Insanity is
Roots of Insanity is an adventure game developed by Crania Games and released in 2017. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Roots of Insanity, we witness an ordinary day of Dr. Riley of the August Valentine Hospital by his own eyes. Dr. Riley, who is an epilepsy patient, has to take his medicine regularly to prevent possible attacks caused by the illness. In the scene that we get into the game, Dr. Riley is at his desk, sitting on a chair. Startled by a screaming woman outside, Riley has a minor attack for not being able to find his medicine. After that, he leaves his room to both find the source of the scream and get some medicine but he finds himself in a messy chaos. In this situation, he needs to find the medicine as soon as possible and help the people at the hospital, for of course; if he can get rid of…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Roots of Insanity holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 41 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Roots of Insanity launched on 5 April 2017, within three weeks of Mass Effect: Andromeda, What Remains of Edith Finch, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect: Andromeda, What Remains of Edith Finch, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.
Official trailer
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