Root

About Root

Released: 2018

Players: 2-4

Rules complexity: High

Strategic depth: High

Series: Root

A fantasy strategy game in which different factions in a beautiful wilderness vie for power.

These adorable Root meeples are moulded from actual clay

Marquise de clay.
Root game expansion adds four new AI factions for co-op and solo play

Mechanical moles and clockwork corvids.
Root digital is getting a fresh set of playable Vagabond characters

As well as an alternative deck of cards.

Latest Articles

Maddie, our new video producer, answers your questions on the Dicebreaker Podcast

Jelly beans, D&D and Root are discussed.
Root creator on future expansions -“I don’t think we’re at the end of it”

“We can probably do a few more factions.”

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Root digital is coming to Nintendo Switch next week

Playing Root in your boots.
Digital editions of Root, Sagrada and Yellow & Yangtze discounted in summer sale

Alongside Raiders of the North Sea.
The best board game box art you could hang on your wall

This gallery of beautiful box artwork has everything from adorable woodland critters to a noir crime scene.

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The Riverfolk Expansion is sailing onto the digital version of Root this month

Cultists and commercialists.

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Tabletop Simulator, Wingspan, Root and Pandemic are all discounted in the Steam Sale

Alongside Spirit Island, Sagrada and Cluedo.
Root’s show-don’t-tell storytelling makes its world feel alive

Eyrie-lly want to go back there.

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Root’s Warlord expansion launches Kickstarter this month, adds two-player rules and minor factions

Details laid bear.

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Best Board Games 2022: What to buy and play right now

The definitive selection of the greatest board games available.

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Root will introduce a rat warlord, badgers and modular rules in fourth - and possibly final - expansion

Leder Games developers also discuss upcoming Oath and designing around feature bloat.
Emma Partlow joins us to talk Magic: The Gathering, D&D and the best Trivial Pursuit replacements on this week’s Dicebreaker Podcast

Plus Uri Geller’s 20-year Pokémon beef, overlooked board game themes and how to kill Hitler.
So many games, so little time: How FOMO and the cult of the new changed board games

Play it again, Sam?

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Root digital is releasing on mobile later this month

Not a hard cell.
Root fans can now play the digital version of the game on PC

Vagabond with friends online.
“We're not trying to make fun games. We're trying to make good games”: Root, Pax Pamir and Oath designer Cole Wehrle argues on (and off) the tabletop

And talks joining forces with his brother Drew for Wehrlegig Games.

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Root digital is coming to mobile and PC later this year

Wood you believe it?
10 best Easter board games to play over the bank holiday weekend

With springtime themes and cute animals, it’s time to crack into the best Easter board games.
Root, Res Arcana and Gloomhaven lead 2020 nominations for the As d’Or, France’s board game of the year awards

‘Golden Ace’ prizes split into expert, accessible and children’s board games.

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Oath, the new board game from the creator of Root and Pax Pamir, is live on Kickstarter

How soon is vow?

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