Make sure the daughters are in birth order, oldest on the left, youngest on the right. If all the details are correct then the gamewill tell you, but if anything is incorrect nothing will happen.
I know this is obvious but: if the world needed a true obra-dinn-like game to kickstart the development of a genre, this is the game. A superb work of fiction and gameplay mudded just a little bit with the use of AI images (something the dev aknowledge and changed for the upcoming steam release).
I've never played anything like this before. I have no words to truly describe how cool this game is. Like, I cannot stress this enough: this game is a masterpiece, and the soundtrack is crazy catchy too. You should all consider supporting jjohnstongames and all the wonderful people and artists who got together to make such a beautiful game.
I played and finished the game months ago and i enjoyed it very much. the story is riveting and the ending was a huge surprise the first time around. I played a few more times and got super into the individual stories of each family member that i honestly wish there was more information that i could read about them. The Roottree lore is so rich and complex. I want more of it and I want to read it all like a book.
jjohnstongames did an amazing job with this one, there's so much detail and thought that went into each character (and there are so many of them so making a storyline as complex as this one is incredible and must have been no mean feat). They were also kind enough to walk me through installing the desktop version from the official discord so thank you!
Sidenote: I played this game quite a lot through the holidays and it got me through the tough parts of the season and through my college finals. It became a comfort game for me, I would actually have this on a second monitor while I studied and wrote essays and would reward myself with an hour of gameplay to take a break from doing school.
I accidentally pulled an all-nighter playing this game because it was just that engaging, suffered through the next day with a smile because I got to feel smart while playing a game about googling people's names. However, I managed to push my sleep schedule back about four hours (10pm-7am, versus the old 2am-11am) because I was just so tired after playing this game all night.
TLDR; This game fixed my sleep schedule by giving me insomnia, 10/10
After allowing my thoughts time to settle, I honestly believe this game is excellent and I will be sharing the Steam page with friends, encouraging them to add this to their wishlists. Towards the end of the game some of my answers become lucky guesses, but I feel as though the whole thing can be done without any guesses and I'm curious to dive back in, or engage with the discord, to figure out what evidence I missed.
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Make sure the daughters are in birth order, oldest on the left, youngest on the right. If all the details are correct then the gamewill tell you, but if anything is incorrect nothing will happen.
I'm reposting my review here just because:
I know this is obvious but: if the world needed a true obra-dinn-like game to kickstart the development of a genre, this is the game. A superb work of fiction and gameplay mudded just a little bit with the use of AI images (something the dev aknowledge and changed for the upcoming steam release).
As we say in Argentina: juegazo.
I've never played anything like this before. I have no words to truly describe how cool this game is. Like, I cannot stress this enough: this game is a masterpiece, and the soundtrack is crazy catchy too. You should all consider supporting jjohnstongames and all the wonderful people and artists who got together to make such a beautiful game.
I played and finished the game months ago and i enjoyed it very much. the story is riveting and the ending was a huge surprise the first time around. I played a few more times and got super into the individual stories of each family member that i honestly wish there was more information that i could read about them. The Roottree lore is so rich and complex. I want more of it and I want to read it all like a book.
jjohnstongames did an amazing job with this one, there's so much detail and thought that went into each character (and there are so many of them so making a storyline as complex as this one is incredible and must have been no mean feat). They were also kind enough to walk me through installing the desktop version from the official discord so thank you!
Sidenote: I played this game quite a lot through the holidays and it got me through the tough parts of the season and through my college finals. It became a comfort game for me, I would actually have this on a second monitor while I studied and wrote essays and would reward myself with an hour of gameplay to take a break from doing school.
I'm glad that it was so useful for you! Thank you so much for playing, I really appreciate it. I hope your finals went well!
hate the AI images
glockenstein
I accidentally pulled an all-nighter playing this game because it was just that engaging, suffered through the next day with a smile because I got to feel smart while playing a game about googling people's names. However, I managed to push my sleep schedule back about four hours (10pm-7am, versus the old 2am-11am) because I was just so tired after playing this game all night.
TLDR; This game fixed my sleep schedule by giving me insomnia, 10/10
me when this are so shit they come full circle
After allowing my thoughts time to settle, I honestly believe this game is excellent and I will be sharing the Steam page with friends, encouraging them to add this to their wishlists. Towards the end of the game some of my answers become lucky guesses, but I feel as though the whole thing can be done without any guesses and I'm curious to dive back in, or engage with the discord, to figure out what evidence I missed.