Roots of Ruin — Botanical Pulp-Horror Tactical RPG

Gallery

Gameplay mock — isometric stone arena, two investigators facing a thorn-covered Husk brute over a glowing root pit — **Gameplay target.** Fixed isometric grid, pixel-art investigators on a 3D arena, floating HP/AP bars, green move highlights, ability bar below.

Loading screen — four investigators with a lantern on greenhouse steps above a glowing root chasm — **Loading screen.** The squad descends into the greenhouse. In-game loading gate with progress bar.

Logotype. Cracked stone serif strangled in blight thorns. Used on the main menu.

Investigators

Four investigators, one per client. Full stats are playtest values and still being balanced.

Class	Role	Field kit
The Botanist	Support / Crafter	Aether-Extract — harvests root material or steadies a wounded ally
The Warrior	Tank / Melee	Cleaver Swing — wide arc that leaves armor sundered
The Arcanist	Controller	Root-Bind — tangles a target, slowing its next advance
The Scavenger	Skirmisher	Caltrops — scattered hazards that punish pursuit

The Blight

The Root wears many shapes. Details below are deliberately thin — learn the rest the hard way.

Threat	What the field reports tell you
Husk-Walker	Dead things walking in packs. They do not stop coming.
Thorn-Spitter	Something in the brambles spits back. Keep your distance — or close it fast.
Lord Silas Blackwood	The greenhouse keeps a gardener. The floor itself answers him.
???	expedition notes end here.

Field Manual

Click a hero to select (green tiles are in movement range) · click an enemy to attack (two dice versus its defense — cover helps it, flanking ignores cover) · click an adjacent glowing root to harvest · E end phase. Fortunate rolls strike harder; cursed ones draw the Root's attention.

Playtest Builds

Windows 64-bit and Android builds ship from CI on every release. Grab the latest from the releases page, host a lobby, and bring investigators — one hero per client.