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Root

Root

Might makes right in the wild wood! The award-winning board game of asymmetrical woodland warfare comes to cross-platform digital play! Combine subtle strategy and bold daring to guide your forest faction to victory!

Released Sep 24, 2020 Developer Dire Wolf Platforms Windows · Mac Board GameTabletopStrategyWarWargame
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

90.0%positive4,413 reviews
Recommended · 17 found this helpful

“A game too good for common people. Nearly impossible to find other players in real life.”

— a player, Steam review · 73 hrs played
Recommended · 10 found this helpful

“I know it shows I have very few hours on this game, but it has really helped me learn to play the physical game!”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Recommended · 9 found this helpful

“If you are like me. you got root physical, and really want to play but no one in your local play group wants to play this is an AMAZING way to go about playing root, while also being a much more affordable price tag compared to root physical (due to not needing to pay for the…”

— a player, Steam review · 94 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:08 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

220playing at last check
28524-hour peak
830all-time peak
0 250 500 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 237 avg · Feb 2025

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

58achievements
0.9%median completion
0.0%rarest: Proxy War
38.2% of players 31.9% of players 31.3% of players 27.9% of players 22.5% of players 19.2% of players 18.3% of players 16.6% of players 16.2% of players 16.0% of players 14.4% of players 11.6% of players 10.2% of players 9.8% of players 7.2% of players 5.9% of players 5.8% of players 5.5% of players 4.7% of players 3.3% of players 3.2% of players 3.1% of players 2.9% of players 2.4% of players 2.1% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.8% of players 0.8% of players 0.8% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.5% of players 0.3% of players 0.3% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.1% of players 0.1% of players 0.1% of players 0.1% of players 0.1% of players 0.1% of players 0.1% of players 0.0% of players 0.0% of players 38.2% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
38.2%Sneak Attack — Eliminate all attacking warriors with an Ambush.
31.9%Wrecking Crew — Destroy 2 enemy buildings in a single battle.
31.3%All Your Base — Have all three bases on the map at once as the Woodland Alliance.
Rarest badges of honor
0.0%Proxy War — Remove 2 or more hireling warriors in a single combat with another hireling.
0.0%Iron WIll — Win 25 games as the Keepers in Iron.
0.1%Market Manipulation — Swap 5 cards with the Black Market in a single game.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$14.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$14.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US14.99 USD
EU12.49 EUR
UK11.39 GBP
Australia21.50 AUD
Canada17.49 CAD
Japan1,520 JPY
Brazil28.99 BRL
China50.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$5.7 China Japan Canada EU US Australia UK≈$15

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $10 $20 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jan 26, 2026
Steam Board Game Fest!

Get ready to roll some digital dice, because the Steam Board Game Fest has begun, and Dire Wolf games are available at a discount from now until February 2nd! With online play, solo modes, AI opponent

Dec 12, 2025
Root 2.1.2 Patch Notes

We have another small patch update, with an adjustment to the Duchy and a bug fix for a known issue. Thank you for your feedback, Woodland warriors!Bug FixesThe Duchy must now move at least one warrio

Dec 10, 2025
Root Digital 2.1.1 Patch notes

Today's hotfix addresses a few bugs following the release of the 2.1 update. Thank you as always for your reports, Woodland warriors!Bug FixesWarriors removed by an Ambush and returned with Feline Phy

Dec 02, 2025
Root Digital Patch Notes - 2.1.0

A new patch update comes to Root Digital, bringing new changes to the leaderboards and a variety of bug fixes! The new leaderboards will reset every month and only account for online games, allowing f

Nov 10, 2025
Root Digital 2.0.14 Patch Notes

Today's hotfix brings improvement to the Woodland with fixes for various bugs. Thank you, as always, for your reports, which help us to identify these issues and resolve them as soon as possible!Bug F

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresIndie, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsBoard Game · Tabletop · Strategy · War · Wargame · Cute · Indie · Turn-Based Strategy · Simulation · PvP · Multiplayer · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Shared/Split Screen · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Japanese, Polish, Russian *
Achievements58
Estimated owners200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://www.direwolfdigital.com/root/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64bit version only) Processor: Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2 Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Graphics card with DX11 or OpenGL 3.x capabilities DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 1 GB available space