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Roots of Yggdrasil

2024

Should you play it?

Build settlements, explore the Nine Realms, collect artifacts and upgrade your deck to reach the top of Yggdrasil in this post-Ragnarok roguelike city-builder! Can you survive the end of the world?

What works

  • Unique blend of deckbuilding and city building
  • Engaging strategic gameplay with meaningful choices
  • Cozy norse mythology theme and art style
  • Strong replayability with meta progression
  • Responsive and active developer support

Things to keep in mind

  • Some ui and quality-of-life issues (building placement, tooltips)
  • Story and character interactions are light and slow
  • Meta progression can feel grindy and slow
  • Runs may become repetitive after many loops
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

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  • Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy

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  • None Shall Intrude

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

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  • Oh My Gore!

  • Seer's Gambit

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  • Competence

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Roots of Yggdrasil: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Relaxation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Status.

Last update: 27/07/2026