Unrooted

Unrooted

Released Aug 2024

Unrooted is a vibrant and eye-catching precision platformer with lush environments and a stunning musical score. Take up your courage and squash your fear of heights. Travel upwards to lands no sapling has dared to explore before. But heed with caution, the higher you journey, the more you risk.

85% positive · 104 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Steam $15.99
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Evaluation

Unrooted is a precision platformer in the style of Jump King that launched on August 2, 2024. The store description presents the game as a complete experience — it describes a full set of features including hand-painted environments, a soundtrack, NPCs, secrets, and a clear vertical traversal goal. There is no mention of post-launch content, DLC, expansions, or ongoing updates of any kind. No DLC has been listed on the store, and no developer communications announce future content. This is consistent with the genre: games like Jump King are typically self-contained, finite experiences shipped as a complete package. The game has been available for purchase for nearly a year with no signals of planned additions, and it appears to have launched as a finished product.
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Store description presents a complete feature set — hand-painted environments, soundtrack, NPCs, secrets — with no mention of planned post-launch content or updates.
description · Aug 2, 2024 source content shipped
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Short description frames Unrooted as a complete, self-contained precision platformer experience with no indication of future content.
store metadata · Aug 2, 2024 source content shipped
medium

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Details

Developer
Publisher
85 Plus Games
Achievements
41
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player

About this game

Unrooted is an homage to games like Jump King and Foddian style platformers.
It will make you slam your desk with rage or leap for joy as you make that one jump you've been missing for hours. Travel upwards, discovering new hand painted environments, mocking NPCs, and musical landscapes that will encourage you to adventure farther than you had before.

- A game made for masochists, by masochists

Features


  • Platforming with consequences, every jump is meaningful
  • Mechanics that urge the player to think through the environment like a puzzle
  • Every miniscule success and failure is autosaved
  • Meet fun characters and be mocked by them for your failures
  • Find secrets and easter eggs along your journey upwards
  • Hand painted environments and characters
  • Beautifully inspiring and haunting soundtrack
Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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