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Play a blood-hungry root creature, linking cards across sprawling maps to feed, clear obstacles, and uncover human stories.
Released 27 Jan 2026
Link Cards, Spread Roots
Feed Roots With Blood
Clear Paths With Cards
Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.
Developed by Rewinding Games · Published by GCORES PUBLISHING
You are a newly awakened, blood-hungry root entity spreading from a dark forest into swamps, frozen regions, and human settlements. Living creatures provide nourishment as you extend your reach.
The central mechanic is connecting cards on a map to grow branching root paths. Plan routes around obstacles, use cards to create connections or clear barriers, and manage blood and water, which are spent as you expand. Each region introduces its own terrain and challenges to explore.
When an expedition ends, accumulated blood can fund upgrades for later attempts. You can also encounter people, intervene in their lives, and build bonds with key characters; these interactions contribute to the story’s different possible outcomes.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players who enjoy the game often single out its unusual card-linked root growth and the satisfaction of steadily opening up large maps. Reviewers also praise the dark visual style and atmosphere, and some like the resource planning and unusual perspective of playing a monstrous entity. Others say the exploration and core loop lose momentum later on.
Deep within the silent forest, roots stir slowly into consciousness.
A primal ravenousness takes instant command of your mind.
Extend your roots—pierce, entwine,
And devour the blood of those creatures thrashing in terror!
Connect, and connect again—
This frantic spread will not be halted.
Until the world is dismantled, reconstructed, and utterly swallowed by you.
All living things are nutrients; YOU are the only predator.
Cards are not tools,
But the fragments and extensions of your will;
Paths are not choices,
but corridors the world is compelled to surrender.
At the cost of every irrevocable bond,
Emerging from the dim-lit woods, traversing swamp and snow,
Usurping even upon the realms of mankind.
Once the darkness is fully seized, you shall no longer require understanding.
Cross paths with 'humans' burdened by their own secrets.
As their superior, command their fates.
Interfere, manipulate, or bend them to your will.
Your choices will pave the path of destiny, guiding the world to different fates.
For you… is this slaughter,
or an act of mercy?
In a silent, eerie, Lovecraftian forest, embody an ancient god driven by an insatiable thirst for blood.
Experience a card-connecting mechanism. With hundreds of cards at your disposal, craft shifting combinations and discover endless playstyles.
Explore four distinct regions. Balance resource management, deck-building, puzzles, and card collection to overcome ever-evolving threats.
Encounter a diverse cast of humans. Choose to remain a silent observer or intervene in their lives. Build bonds with up to 7 key characters to unlock hidden stories and multiple endings.
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 29 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
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