How many evidence items are in the Base Game?

The Base Game has 53 player-facing clues, photos, documents, recordings and advertisements included. 39 of them count toward the evidence achievement.

Why does my total not match someone else's?

The achievement only counts the clues on its own list. Story notes and progression documents sit in your locker as well, but they stay outside the 39.

How do I unlock The Free Spirits?

It is not a search result. After you reach 9/49, Your Client Returns brings a new evidence bundle that includes The Free Spirits.

How do I get the Cousins photos?

Search ChrisRaff75, then repair all three sliced photos. Skipping a repair hides a portrait you will need later.

Where is Tessa's portrait?

Roottree Motors 3. In Periodicals, use publication Butler County Times with the term Roottree Motors. The same search returns Motors 1 and 2 as well; Tessa is on the third ad.

Why is Intuition still glowing on a clue?

Something is still attached to it: a related clue you have not found, or a relative it points at. Pick the clue in the Intuition section to see exactly what is left.

Where do I find the exact search that returns a clue?

Open the clue and follow its search link. The search terms page lists every phrase each engine accepts, including the variants a search tolerates.

Can I use this page without spoilers?

Hints, Guided and Full change how much the clue panels spell out, and your choice follows you across the guide.

BASE GAME · EVIDENCE

The Roottrees Are Dead Evidence Guide

Find a photo, document or clue, see where it came from, or work out what you are still missing.

Find Evidence Check Missing Evidence

39 items count toward the Base Game evidence achievement.

Playing Roottreemania? Roottreemania Evidence →

53 clues in this campaign, story notes included.

How much help do you want?

Hint onlyGuidedFull answers

What Are You Trying to Do?

Pick the situation you are in and the guide jumps to the right tool.

I need to find an evidence item
Type what you remember and open the clue you mean.
I already have a clue
Pick it and see what it leads to next.
I recognise the photo
Scan the pictures and open the one in front of you.
I'm trying to identify someone
Look a relative up and see which clue settles them.
I don't know what I'm missing
Split what is left into what you can get now and what waits for the story.
I'm checking the achievement
Count the clues that belong to the Base Game achievement.

Find Evidence

Search a clue name, a relative, a kind of document or the stage you are on.

Search by: Photos · Documents & Notes · Story · Music · Marketing

Your Base Game Evidence

Tick the clues you already hold so the missing lists and the intuition check stay accurate.

0 / 39

achievement evidence found

Show Missing Evidence

Loose Ends: Part One counts these clues, and the achievement list keeps the same total.

39 achievement clues still to find

What Evidence Are You Missing?

Missing does not always mean overlooked. Some clues only arrive once the story reaches them.

You can get these now

45 left

Starts unlocked
Starts unlocked
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Library
Periodicals: Teen Blast
Periodicals: Business Watch
Periodicals: Business Watch
Starts unlocked
SpiderSearch: Elias Roottree
Library
Library
SpiderSearch: Gwynn Roottree
SpiderSearch: Penelope
SpiderSearch: Penelope
SpiderSearch: ChrisRaff75
Puzzle
Puzzle
Puzzle
SpiderSearch: ChrisRaff75
SpiderSearch: Diamond's Dazzlers
SpiderSearch: Raffertunes
SpiderSearch: Dr. Wilson
SpiderSearch: Dr. Wilson
Starts unlocked
SpiderSearch: These Times
SpiderSearch: Jim Roottree
SpiderSearch: Cherry Tree Album
Library
Library
Periodicals: Butler County Times
Periodicals: Butler County Times
Periodicals: Butler County Times
SpiderSearch: The Fluzis
Periodicals: Butler County Times
SpiderSearch: Boys and Girls Agree
SpiderSearch: Miracle Roottree

These wait for the story

8 left

Nothing on this list looks like the clue you are stuck on? Work out what is blocking you

What Does This Evidence Lead To?

Pick a clue to see where it came from, who it helps you place, and what it opens next.

Choose a clue

Photo

Achievement

The Free Spirits

Obtained from: Story event
Helps identify: 8 relatives — raise spoilers to see names.
Helps investigate: 12 people — raise spoilers to see names.
Used in: 9 → 18

See the story step

Which Evidence Identifies This Person?

Some clues settle a relative outright. Others only point you in their direction.

Relative

Search a relative to see which clue identifies them.

All Base Game Evidence

The complete Base Game set: 53 clues, 39 of which count toward the achievement.

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Showing 53 of 53 Base Game clues.

Part of a set
0 / 3 found
Roottree Motors
Three garage ads that run together in the Butler County Times.
Part of a set
0 / 5 found
Lauren's Diary
The diary pages from the first edition of A Life Between Wars.
Part of a set
0 / 5 found
Revisiting the Diary
The 1975 re-release, which adds the years the first diary skipped.
Part of a set
0 / 3 found
Cousins
Three sliced photographs that only make sense once all of them are repaired.
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