The original Root board game, released in 2018, is a weird one. It’s an asymmetrical wargame where cuddly creatures fight for control of a fantastical woodland. But while artist Kyle Ferrin’s work ...

Root belongs to a small but burgeoning subgenre of tabletop board games where players immerse themselves in the woodland worlds of mice, racoons and other wild critters. For the most part, these are ...

Root works because it is at once familiar and novel: a wargame with a cutesy theme disguising a highly asymmetric strategy affair. Root is a game of adventure and war where 2 to 4 players battle for ...