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Bloodroots

Paper Cult · 2021-03-12

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ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 28, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Mar 12, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 15, 2021 (Xbox One), Jul 15, 2021 (Xbox Series X|S), Mar 03, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Feb 28, 2020 (PlayStation 4)

One-hit kill die-retry murderballet. Left for dead by a colorful band of bandits: you will chain killing sprees to exact revenge on the treacherous Mr. Black Wolf. Improvise your kills with utterly everything you can get your hands on: from carrots to plasma guns.

3
playing now
90%
positive of 308 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
83/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
77/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Bloodroots is a hack and slash video game developed by Paper Cult. The game was released on February 28, 2020, for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Windows, and later for Xbox Series X/S on 15 July 2021. Drawing inspiration from the Western genre, players assume the role of Mr. Wolf, a man driven by a quest for revenge after being betrayed.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 53% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.2k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 308 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2026-03-19) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 5 of 11 observed days · $16.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

402026-08-12 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-12 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-16 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-17 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 16:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$3.992019-12-132026-08-282019-12-13 — best price $17.992020-03-05 — best price $19.992021-03-19 — best price $19.992021-07-08 — best price $19.992021-08-28 — best price $14.992021-10-28 — best price $13.992021-11-24 — best price $13.992021-12-22 — best price $9.992022-01-27 — best price $12.992022-04-01 — best price $9.992022-05-02 — best price $8.992022-06-24 — best price $6.992022-09-19 — best price $8.992022-11-22 — best price $9.992022-12-22 — best price $6.992023-02-02 — best price $9.992023-03-16 — best price $9.992023-06-29 — best price $7.992023-11-21 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $7.992024-01-29 — best price $7.992024-03-14 — best price $7.992024-06-27 — best price $6.992024-11-27 — best price $6.992024-12-19 — best price $6.992025-03-13 — best price $5.992025-06-26 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $4.992025-12-18 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $3.992026-06-26 — best price $3.992026-07-25 — best price $3.992026-08-28 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

GoreBloodActionCombatCartoonViolentWesternTop-DownDifficultFast-Paced

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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