
Release
1984
Player score
Awaiting reviews
Platform families
Not announced
Connected releases
Core game only
Game data from IGDB
Editorial overview
What it is
Below the Root is an adventure game released in 1984 by Windham Classics, a division of Spinnaker Software. It is titled after Below the Root, the first of the Green Sky Trilogy of novels, written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and published between 1975 and 1977. It is an early example of what later became known as the Metroidvania genre.
Play styles
Single player
Perspective
Side view · Text
Themes
Fantasy
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Languages
1 supported
Cinematic archive
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Longplay
Production dossier
Cast, creators, hardware, release history, and the details that define how this game plays.

Commodore C64/128/MAX

DOS

Apple II