Deep Roots is an homage to the classics--Expanded.

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The cozy game genre has really caught on in the last several years and the games coming out are fun, interesting, fantastical, and creative. Seriously, if you haven't played one in a while, go look up all the popular ones out today and try them out!

While I do love stories with a tinge of fantasy, I also love the games that serve like an alternative reality; Places and Scenarios that could really exist. I have always found that, sometimes, real life can be far more impressive than we give credit to it. I wanted to capture that a bit in Deep Roots.

Deep Roots will play like a classic farm sim game with more management in finances, delegation, and external forces impacting your produce ( like weather, plagues, economy, & people).

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The Main Game

You as a player will begin the story by selecting which farm around town you wish to begin from. Each plot has pros and cons. Will you start off with a classic balanced land? Try to start a living from the city? Be closer to natural resources?
The resources available to you and able to grow in your space easier may impact that type of farm you run. Deep Roots has "Industry Specialties" tied alongside villager stories that unlock a whole new accessibility for a farm game; Processing & Manufacturing Goods.
Will you grow grains to start a brewery and your own alcohol chain? Produces clothing to the shops around town? Stock up the grocer?

Already, you may be able to feel the options for gameplay are quite vast. If that wasn't enough, as a developer, the crop and animal selection is designed in a way to easily expand and add more to the game upon updates. My goal is to include crops from around the world, from mangosteen, durian, and loquats, to ackee and baobab, back to the OG carrots apples, potatoes, etc. Animal varieties and personalities may dictate your animal products quality and frequency. And your relationship with nature may affect the scavenge-able goods out in the woods.

As you grow closer to the families of the city, you will unlock more capabilities in various Industries, eventually unlocking the assistance from others to help run your farm. Yes, RUN your farm. So you may purchase more land and start building out a new industry.

Your life is your own in Deep Roots. You are not required to go so far if you would rather live out a peaceful life of fishing and relaxing. The city is alive and the residents wish to improve their lives. If contributing isn't your thing. They don't need you.

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Tools and Gadgets

You cant have a farm game without tools to make it happen. Deep Roots introduces a leveling system to the tools instead of metal upgrades. Purchase the newest model of spade to extract seeds from dead plants. Get the new fishing rod that holds heavier fish. Or that fancy new hammer with instructions how to chain strikes together??

"Gadgets" ( Subject to renaming) are also a core feature to Deep Roots. These range from beehives and looms to stand up shops around town and bird roosts. Gadgets bring not only access to new produce but also new ways to play the game and make money.

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Stories

Deep Roots, as the name might suggest, has a deep relationship with relationships. The city is filled with individuals and families and friends whom have struggles to overcome; some simple, some heavy. Befriending people and getting to know them is a key aspect of exploring what the game has to offer.

The game will have a primary storyline that surrounds the fate of the whole city. A story for the nature that LITERALLY surrounds the city. Families all have their own storylines. Marriage Candidates also have their own storylines.

You as a player may have to build up relationships with several people and families to progress other aspects of the game.

Just make sure you have tissues nearby.

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A Tiny Tinge of Whimsy

As I said, Deep Roots has a stronger setting based in reality than whimsy. However, there is much in the world we still do not know and understand. When you visit ancient forests and places in the real world, you start to feel something beyond yourself. So perhaps a tinge of whimsy is more real than fiction after all.

Deep Roots will have some aspects of forest guardians and magick. But as these fantastical things wish to not be known, I won't be spoiling yet how that manifests. But you never know what or WHO might not be as they seem around town. In fact, THEY may not even know yet themselves.

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Stay tuned for more!