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Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition cover art

Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition

Yeti · Sekai Project · 2016-04-27

SteamAmazon

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Oct 24, 2013 (PlayStation 3), Apr 27, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 24, 2014 (PlayStation Vita), Aug 12, 2021 (Nintendo Switch)

Rescue squad captain Watase Kasasagi wakes up without his memories in the middle of his most critical mission yet-- a nuclear meltdown at a research facility. In an unfamiliar place and without his years of training, he must rescue the survivors and escape...

Root Double -Before Crime * After Days- Xtend Edition is an Adventure game released in 2016 for $34.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 615 reviews).

4
playing now
91%
positive of 615 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$34.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Root Double: Before Crime * After Days, stylized as ROOT√DOUBLE, is a visual novel video game developed in a collaboration between Regista and Yeti, and released by Yeti for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows in 2012. An updated version with a new ending, titled Root Double: Before Crime * After Days: Xtend Edition, was released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in 2013 and 2014, and was released in English by Sekai Project for Microsoft Windows in 2016; the PlayStation Vita version was released in North America in 2018 and is planned to be released at a later date in Europe. It was also ported to Nintendo Switch in 2020.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 36 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity up 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 17% of 29,201 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 15k–37k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 615 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.74 at Steam (2022-11-22) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $34.99 · on sale 3 of 6 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220172026Week of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 13:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 20:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 11:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 19:00 — 6 players2026-09-29 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 10:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 09:00 — 5 players2026-10-05 17:00 — 5 players2026-10-07 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 08:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 06:00 — 4 players2026-10-13 14:00 — 4 players2026-10-14 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-15 13:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$34.99$8.742016-04-282026-07-092016-04-28 — best price $31.492016-11-23 — best price $17.492017-03-06 — best price $17.492017-06-22 — best price $9.792017-10-26 — best price $26.242017-12-21 — best price $9.792018-06-21 — best price $17.492018-11-21 — best price $12.242019-02-04 — best price $12.242019-05-13 — best price $17.492019-09-16 — best price $12.242019-11-10 — best price $13.992019-12-19 — best price $12.242020-03-03 — best price $19.242020-05-21 — best price $17.492020-10-29 — best price $12.242020-12-22 — best price $12.242021-04-20 — best price $17.492021-06-24 — best price $13.992021-10-28 — best price $17.492021-12-22 — best price $17.492022-11-22 — best price $8.742023-02-20 — best price $10.492023-05-08 — best price $8.742023-08-07 — best price $10.492023-11-21 — best price $17.492024-03-14 — best price $12.242024-06-27 — best price $10.492024-12-19 — best price $8.742025-03-13 — best price $8.742025-09-29 — best price $13.992026-03-19 — best price $10.492026-07-09 — best price $34.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2952026-06-01 — 23 pageviews2026-06-05 — 24 pageviews2026-06-09 — 10 pageviews2026-06-13 — 16 pageviews2026-06-17 — 16 pageviews2026-06-21 — 11 pageviews2026-06-25 — 17 pageviews2026-06-29 — 14 pageviews2026-07-03 — 8 pageviews2026-07-07 — 23 pageviews2026-07-11 — 9 pageviews2026-07-15 — 15 pageviews2026-07-19 — 8 pageviews2026-07-23 — 14 pageviews2026-07-27 — 11 pageviews2026-07-31 — 11 pageviews2026-08-04 — 12 pageviews2026-08-08 — 20 pageviews2026-08-12 — 12 pageviews2026-08-16 — 24 pageviews2026-08-20 — 17 pageviews2026-08-24 — 26 pageviews2026-08-28 — 6 pageviews2026-09-01 — 9 pageviews2026-09-05 — 13 pageviews2026-09-09 — 17 pageviews2026-09-13 — 20 pageviews2026-09-17 — 13 pageviews2026-09-21 — 11 pageviews2026-09-25 — 11 pageviews2026-09-29 — 11 pageviews2026-10-03 — 5 pageviews2026-10-07 — 10 pageviews2026-10-10 — 22 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

49
achievements tracked
42.6%
earned "√After"
13%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,57316%49
PS Vita (PlayStation)35166%49
PS Vita (PlayStation)12574%49
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

GoreAnimeSci-fiMysteryViolentThrillerAdventureStory RichAtmosphericCrowdfunded

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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