Do you remember a simpler time, when trying to search for things online was tricky for more fun, innocent reasons? When search engines weren’t full of AI poison, your personal data wasn’t stolen every time you tried to buy socks, and playing a five minute video only required five hours of buffering first? OK, so maybe it wasn’t all great, but The Roottrees Are Dead, a detective game set in 1998, certainly is. I’d seriously rate this one alongside The Return of the Obra Dinn and The Case of the Golden idol.
A quick warning: the following article does contain some spoilers for the early stages of the game's mystery. I've avoided revealing too much, but if you want to go in completely fresh, I won't be offended if you click away now, as long as you promise to go play it right away.
