While I spent much of 2025 obsessed with Blue Prince, PC Gamer's 'best design' GOTY award winner, it wasn't the only killer puzzle game to release near the beginning of last year. The Roottrees are Dead, a game mostly spent sitting at a computer (yours, and also a virtual one) sussing out what happened to a sprawling family. It's not the first game to use that sort of interface to cast you as the sleuth with a dense mystery to solve, but it was enough of a hit to immediately spawn imitators.
Developer Evil Trout, meanwhile, has been working on its own follow-up, and it looks like it's going to be a hit, too. The Incident at Galley House, released on Tuesday, has already pulled in more than 600 Steam reviews with an overwhelmingly positive 97% of them giving it a thumbs up.
