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Nightroot

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Developer
Nelson Rossi
Released
Aug 31, 2026
Tags
AdventureIndieStrategy
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About this game

The developer's description, from the game's Steam store page.

NIGHTROOT

About This Game

Nightroot is a first-person horror exploration game set in a forest that shouldn't exist anymore - and yet does.

You wake up alone, deep in the woods, with no memory of how you got there. The trees are too tall, the paths lead nowhere, and something is moving just outside the reach of your flashlight. To escape, you'll need to explore, listen, and piece together the truth of what happened here.

Long ago, this forest belonged to a family sworn to keep it sealed - the Vanes, Keepers of the Roots. Their ritual failed. The forest spread. The village disappeared. And the spirits that were meant to stay buried never left.

Scattered across the woods are torn journal pages and carved messages left behind by the Vane family - fragments of a story that, if pieced together correctly, may reveal the code you need to open the way out. Read carefully. Nothing here says exactly what it means.

Features

- A living, breathing forest - dense, dark, and disorienting, designed to make you doubt every direction.

- Ghosts that hunt, not just haunt - stay alert, or stay lost forever.

- Environmental storytelling - piece together the fate of the Vane family through notes, carvings, and scattered objects.

- A puzzle worth solving — a hidden 4-digit code stands between you and freedom. The forest won't hand it to you.

- Sound-driven tension — no jump scares for the sake of jump scares. Every whisper, every snapped branch means something.

Story Excerpt

Three children were born beneath the roots of that tree. Only one walked away alive.

Somewhere in these woods, the truth is still buried — literally. Every note you find is a piece of a family that tried to protect the world from what lives beneath the forest floor, and failed. Whether you find your way out is up to how closely you're willing to listen.

Wishlist Nightroot and find out what's waiting in the dark.

System requirements

As Steam lists them.

Windows

Minimum

OS
Windows 10 64-bit
Processor
Intel Core i5-4430
Memory
6 GB RAM
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 370 2GB
DirectX
Version 11
Storage
3 GB available space

Recommended

OS
64-bit Windows 11
Processor
Intel Core i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Memory
12 GB RAM
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 8GB / Radeon RX 6600 XT
DirectX
Version 12
Storage
3 GB available space

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