Roots & Runes
Farm by day. Trust the runes by night.
A cozy homesteading RPG with a touch of adventure. Farm, build, craft and fish in Maple Hollow - or learn magic, explore the mountains, and track down the curse that sends ghosts to the villages every night.
Overview
Maple Hollow, the first world of the continent of Carpathia, seems a quiet place - and mostly it is. Build a house, tend a garden and animals, fish, craft and sell: you don't need to be a mage to run a farm, but it doesn't hurt. Every night at dusk, though, ghosts raid the edges of the villages, held back only by the great runes the elves left behind. Lately that balance is shaking. Live as the hollowers always have - or follow the strange signs back to the curse's master.
What's inside
Farm vegetables, herbs, mushrooms and fruit; tend cows, chickens and sheep
Build and decorate a house of your own
Craft - cooking, baking, tailoring, blacksmithing, alchemy, herbalism
Learn two of four schools of magic: Water, Fire, Nature, Arcane
Fight with sword or wand through caves and forests
Companions - a fairy, a dog, a dragon - and a soldier for hire
Details
- Platform
- Windows · Linux
- Players
- Single-player
- Developer
- Embratic
- Publisher
- Embratic
- Languages
- English
Concept art
In the forgeScreenshots
Lore & worldbuilding
The runes of the Hollow
Before they hid in their mountain and left the human world, the elves gave the villagers great runes and guard-stones. Their light keeps the dusk raids at the edges of the villages - and for generations, nobody in the Hollow asked why the ghosts come at all.