
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
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Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.57/day in the week to Aug 10 → 8.86/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
James Vanderboom's life drastically changes when he plants a special seed in the garden of the house he has inherited. Expand your bloodline by unlocking portraits in the tree of life.
Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by Rusty Lake, the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
Pick-up-and-play: easy to start but hard to put down
Unique storyline: experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree
More than 33 levels: the biggest Rusty Lake game so far is filled with puzzles
Full of suspense and atmosphere: switching from calm to very dark moments
Immersive soundtrack: each level has its own theme song and variations
Achievements: the tree has more secrets to unravel
Genres
Sums Steam + Google Play only; App Store, GOG publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $3.99 | 9.2Kreviews | 97% | — | $550.3K |
| $2.99 | 16Kratings | 94% | — | $1.7M | |
| $2.99 |
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Reviews
Themes across 368 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
非常不错的解谜游戏,很像百年孤独,讲述了一个家族三代人宿命一般的故事,给我带来的震撼最大的是家庭音乐会那一幕,循环的范德布姆家族舞曲在几个节拍后就戛然而止,直接吓死了母亲玛丽,还在后面用巫毒娃娃害死了大哥塞缪尔和嫂子艾达。这部作品算是很好地填充了锈湖的背景板块,非常的经典(第一次写游戏评价,同时也是我第一部玩的锈湖系列作品,真不愧是解谜界最高的山,请继续加油,锈湖工作室)
Vanderboom家族是十分相亲相爱的一家人*(^_^)
Świetna gra, tak jak każda od Rusty Lake
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, Dutch, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Danish, Japanese, Korean, Polish +2 more
| 1.1Kratings |
| 96% |
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| $0.99−67% | 70ratings | 90% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 368 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
This is my first time playing this genre of game.But as i playing,i think this type of game is actually pretty good.
очень интересная игра, жаль нет полного экрана и перевода
真不错
It is my favourite out of the Rusty Lake/ Cube escape games. They are all worth checking out. It has lots of secrets, very fun puzzles and a captivating story/ universe to immerse yourself in. I don't even want to spoil a single thing about the story, it is really worth experiencing. The puzzles are creative and there's no moon logic going on. Very well done voice acting. If you're interested in the story in the "correct order" you should play: Rusty lake paradise -> Servant of the Lake -> Roots / Rusty lake Hotel (the events are parallelto roots but dont directlyinfluence it -> cube escape the cave. Later on the other cube escapes for context and the last Samsara. Because the past is never dead, it's not even the past. Which isn't the order of publishing,
Briliiant!
Rusty Lake: Roots is the most fleshed out of the early games, offering a full timeline of events leading to the birth of Laura that adds a lot of depth to the Lake and the Vanderbooms backstory to set up characters stories in the later entries. The focus on shorter segments was a breath of fresh air, and makes Roots a standout game in the series, especially with its focus on open spaces rather than tiny cubes. The meta-puzzle element was also a nice surprise that paves the way for the brilliance later on in the franchise. Love the vibes on this one, I highly recommend checking this out, it's a staple of the series in my opinion.
神作
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