Commodore 64 · Action adventure

Below the Root

1984 · Windham Classics · designed by Dale DeSharone

Press the play button on the screen above, then click inside it so it gets your keystrokes. The full-screen button is in the player's bottom corner. Running on the Internet Archive.

About the game

A sequel to Zilpha Keatley Snyder's Green-Sky trilogy, made with the author. You pick one of five characters from the Kindar and Erdling peoples and explore a world built in the branches of enormous trees, and in the tunnels below their roots.

It is an early open-world game with no time limit. Instead of collecting weapons you earn psychic "spirit skills" by helping the people you meet.

Watch someone play it on YouTube →

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