The Last Root

About this game

The Last Root follows a young cactus on a quest to save her family and world from the hold of an evil dictator. Join her as she gains friends, defeats enemies in party-based combat, explores her diverse world - and maybe even saves the day.

• A robust cast of lovable (and hateable) characters from aloe to ZZ
  
• Complex villains who are more than simply villainous
  
• An immersive pixel-art world with a variety of cultures and terrain
  
• A morality system that will determine your fate
  
• Find and grow your own seedlings; a unique and customizable class of fighters
  
• Help your teammates in battle with interactive assist minigames
  
• Plants, of course!

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Latest news

• Patch Notes·26 Oct 2023Official

  Grasslands and Dungeons - TLR October Monthly Update #2

  It's time for another Monthly Update on The Last Root's development! Before reading we'd appreciate it if you followed us on....... Steam (WISHLIST HERE) - Twitter {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43770161/fdfa3339cdec1875f8f2b8f1ab6e770808a3b307.gif To the Update -> ✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵 Art A quick little art update! My lesson learned for September was: don’t keep all your art on a flash drive. Mine broke and despite our best efforts to revive it, it didn’t make it. Thankfully, most of the files had already been sent over and I was able to restore a few of my most recent files, but I still lost a lot which is more frustrating than anything. After that, I worked on the button prompts for the fully coded controller update (details in the programming section). https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/pMa4QNFYtti79boRmew4Rgv1iplAN7rFj-7iZW5XrEB7AZTVdzG49hOWeNcjj1L2MLorYmdbIbtuVeHYy7_Sv7iEgnJCd8QUZRa1q-CWk27AeI3-It7yZg6TceRgdTc5gmKXKxMk3x1-jpodWKXCcFc Then I finally really began the valley area. Here, I finally discovered Aseprite’s tile mapping feature (fully two years late) which made things much, much easier. I used it for not only the grass tiles but also for the tall grass and the river. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/P9FbY6iDy1PRFhT4SJMJlHHKZ9tqx97OC6uuAkM7OBABN9RTFibzdx9UQtZ63hRu84TqwckOOGFXnYYtScj9_gmgqaZL2G8mEmuYbeJ6UD7g8I5NbvjH0-_QlJ3X2BBc631IeVVuz7gS-1xWQTmcIks I got to do a little bit of character design: a cute family of daisy NPCs. I also wrote their dialogue, so despite being pretty much minor, these characters really came alive for me. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3-LZ03_XhGllFCFYvNEamSI0JaC619Cew1KhuD3UDhkBqJZ9g6ZTSXejr3a0Jb7jvAm-boSN7mAlF_IXBFok9wUZkNLJNFyC585egKqeQP4FhuPpDKggECM1oehZlUE21aloHLn68-lqGljzN31hG9o The last thing I worked on was the factory, an instrumental part of the gameplay. After mapping it out, I drew the rooms (again using tilemaps for the conveyor belts). https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/AMwbfutyUmAt9ECq-eo7E8T8YoxeEYsDosvIoL-Zfa0cWvX4Sr...
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• Patch Notes·17 Sept 2023Official

  Demo now has Full Controller and Inputs Update!

  We are excited to announce that 'The Last Root' demo now has full controller support. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43770161/4351e76b72716ee4b894c31eaf26b424b8f6118d.gif Additionally, we have added new in-game prompts and enhanced the tutorials to make the demo more user-friendly. We hope that these changes will improve the demo experience and make it more accessible to players! Don't forget to wishlist :D and as always, we appreciate any feedback and bug reports, cya! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43770161/7387dfb2c46a1f6eeaff25a9a79adc3e54ceb1cc.gif
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• Patch Notes·30 Aug 2023Official

  Planting and growing Seedlings! - TLR August Monthly Update

  Hello, it’s Holographicquad, welcome to our monthly update! Now that the demo is complete, we’ll be giving monthly updates about our continued progress on The Last Root in devblog form. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43770161/f200a5c0db9f009ea7909855abe36d5c7ae201f6.png For those who don't know, HolographicQuad is our indie company run by us - two cousins working on the Last Root, a story-driven, turn-based RPG, featuring plants. This month we worked on a new building, the Nursery. The Nursery is a place where you grow seeds into seedlings. The seedlings can then be used in battle. The seedlings have different designs and stats Before reading... Drop us a wishlist on Steam ;) -The Last Root Steam Page And follow us on Twitter! - The Last Root Twitter ✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵✨🌵 Art : Asiyah here, resident artist for The Last Root. For some background, I’ve been doing pixel art for nearly four years now, and work solely in Aseprite. Doing the nursery this month, I worked on its interior design, and the furniture that can be placed inside, as well as a bit of planning on the furniture sets to come. This includes the table where the seedlings can be planted, and the items on it that can be used to produce status changes in the growing seedlings. The most important thing though, were the seedlings themselves. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43770161/0966380246441a8cefeacf77cd2eb1c07c897714.gif Character design is one of my personal favorite parts of pixel art, so I had a lot of fun with all their designs. And a little less fun with all their cute, but repetitive little animations. It was worth it though, because now they can walk, sit, battle and get petted or carried by the player. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43770161/c9a723debb1ba9b04796ab0b1363112af728ba2a.gif {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43770161/e84353c4cacc5a9f50909e4bb4c38df469cecc7a.gif {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43770161/cf9666c23f9019be4fa94fb7eab0f86d78259895.gif {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43770161/ce41b15ef2c29d347942cb11cb342b6448aa0585.gif {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4377016...
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