Deep Roots
Man thinks he is the king of nature... what a devilish mistake.
All it takes is one tiny deeply saddened sapling and a single drop of demonic blood…for Mother Nature herself to raise hell against those arrogant meatbags. Help this poor sapling grow into a big tree and unleash its wrath upon those who dared to defile its kin and roots!
Hi! It's Chertobook Team.
We are once again DELIGHTED to take part in #GMTKJam. We made it under 48 hours!
This year's theme is "Built to Scale". We implemented it in a core loop of our game, helping a small sapling to grow into a big (and deadly) tree. As our carnivorous plant devours more and more people, it grows and its hunting ground scales, making the difficulcy scale as well.
Play our game in browser and THANKS THANKS THANKS for supporting us!
CATCH THE PREY - GROW STRONGER AND TALLER - LEVEL UP
REMEMBER:
1. AVOID THE SUSPICIOUS STARES OF THE CITIZENS
2. COMBOS ARE IMPORTANT
3. MIND YOUR HUNGER LEVEL
Credits are linked on our itch page https://chertobook.itch.io/
SFX are from the free library of soundsnap.com
Controls & Guide
Press LMB where you want your roots to grow and snatch your prey. But beware, prey is on the move, and catching it might be trickier than you think.
The more you devour, the stronger and larger you become. And with that, your roots can stretch even farther!
If someone witnesses you grabbing a puny human, they’ll sound the alarm, and the rest will scatter like frightened deer. Your hunting grounds will be deserted. You wouldn’t want to starve, would you?
THERE ARE 2 AVAILABLE ENDINGS
Follow us
| on itch | https://chertobook.itch.io/ |
| on twitter | https://x.com/chertobook |
| on discord | https://discord.gg/YFSrBET9 |
Comments
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Wow! It's very stylish!
Great job! Stylish, spooky and funny.
thank you~
Fun game and beautiful art style! Excellent work all around!
thank you from the bottom of our black hearts <3
Great game! Is this the bad ending or not ?
Congratulations! You outplayed those leather bags :) This is definitely a GOOD ending :D
Love the art, music is great, got addicted immediately.
Awww thank you!
really fun experience! love the vibes of the design !!
thank you! purple is the color of magic, after all <3
I really enjoyed this! I loved the art, the color palette, sound effects, and animations. It gave me Audry 2 vibes in a charming way ^_^. Overall, a fun time!
oh my god, Audry 2 is a cutie! <3 thank you very much for taking your time to leave a comment!
This is great! The art especially is really cool.
Thank you! Our artist is AMAZING we love her
had a lot of fun on this one, really enjoyed someone taking a similar approach to mine
great minds think alike!
I love the art style!
Thank you! Our artist will be delighted <3
Great looking comic book style intro! The music and the spooky theme of the game go very well together, great job!
thank you very much! you can never go wrong with the comics intro<3
amazing gameplay ! It's addictive. It took me a while to understand the stare mechanic but afterward it became even more interesting. The art style is gorgeous. Good job !
Thank you! We will pass your kind words to our artist <3 We will make the stare mechanic more obvious in the fix after the jam.
Consume and clease...
I've had fun playing the game!
While played I thought that maybe bigger humans will give you more health or something but didn't felt the difference so I ate them all! Also, menu button didn't work during the gameplay! And maybe more destruction will be nice! MOAR DESTRUCTION!
Very iconic art style, nice sfx! Also, I like how you played around the theme!
I like it, do more :)
Wow, thank you so much! You are right - in the future we are planning to implement different value to different objects, even adding sinners and believers. We will keep working on the game! Such reviews as yours is what keeps us going <3
Don't forget to let your review too!
Do you want to "scale" the game beyoung game jam?
Of course! And yes, we do plan to scale it. In any way we can <3
I really enjoyed your game! The music and visuals are amazing. I felt like the plant wasn’t growing fast enough, maybe you could add some different mechanics on how to catch enemies with bigger risks but better rewards.
I wasn’t entirely sure on what happened when humans got scared and ran away, maybe I missed something lol.
Overall, an awesome game!
thank you for appreciating our game~ we will take your suggestions into consideration! as for scared humans, if they see you grabbing someone, they panic and run away, thus your hunting grounds become deserted and you starve :(
Deep Roots Gameplay
The visuals are great! The controls are easy and the gameplay pretty simple. The music is nice and fits the vibe. The screaming got kinda silly after a while of hearing the same one over and over. I felt like it took a long time to go between growth stages for how simple it was to catch enemies, but it's okay. I liked it.
Thank you! It means a lot to us. We have many different plans on how to take this game further and we will take your suggestions into consideration<3 SFX design is something we did in a rush, we will certainly improve it!