Root Diver

Delve the deep. Cultivate the surface.

You are a magical botanist. An ancient dungeon has split open beneath your homestead, its caverns brimming with impossible flora: luminous fungi, ember-blooms, catacomb vines. Delve the depths to forage seeds, fight the overgrown guardians that won't give them up freely, haul your harvest to the surface, and cultivate it into potions, gear, enhancements, and more!

Fell the Nightshade, nine floors down, then claim victory or chase the endless depths.

The loop

Descend. Nine randomized floors across three biomes: Catacombs, Fungal Grotto, Ember Forge, each with its own palette, lighting, enemy mix and music. A boss waits every third floor.

Forage under fire. Seeds grow where the guardians live. Room-locking encounters, telegraphed attacks, a hold-to-charge spin, a dash that bumps enemies, thrown daggers and quick bombs. 

Cultivate. Back at the Homestead your Garden grows a stage for every floor you descend. The Apothecary brews the harvest into potions and elixirs for the next run; the Vault banks coins into permanent upgrades; the Wardrobe changes how you look. Then the Descend portal sends you back down.

What's in it

• Nine floors, three biomes, three bosses: the Sporemother, the Bloom, and the Nightshade, plus endless depths past the ninth.
• Six enemy types with elite affixes, locked treasure rooms, bomb-able secret rooms, a wizard shop every floor, traps, and a boon choice on every descent.
• A walkable Homestead hub.
• Dynamic lighting, a minimap, and screen effects.
• Full gamepad support with device-aware button glyphs, key remapping, and fully controller-navigable menus.
• Save and quit mid-run, and a death recap naming who slew you.

What's next

Root Diver is playable and still in development.

Controls

Action	Keys	Gamepad
Move	WASD / Arrows	Left stick / D-pad
Aim	—	Right stick
Sword (hold to charge a spin)	J / Z	RT (or X)
Throw dagger	K / X	LT
Dash	Shift / Space	B
Interact	E	A
Swap potion	R	Y
Quick bomb	Q	LB
Drink potion	F	RB
Inventory	I / Tab	Back
Pause	Esc / P	Start

Everything is rebindable from the Controls panel, and the on-screen glyphs follow both your remaps and whichever device you used last.

Made with

Godot 4.8, GL Compatibility renderer, GDScript.

AI Disclosure

Frost Software, developer of Root Diver, uses generative AI to assist ONLY with coding tasks on Root Diver.

Frost Software, developer of Root Diver, does not and will NEVER use generative AI to generate, modify, or reference art and sound for Root Diver. Further, all dialogue and text is and will be written by a human.

Credits

Root Diver ships third-party art, audio and fonts. Every pack below is licensed for commercial use and credited as its license asks.

Art

• Farm RPG — Tiny Asset Pack (All-in-One) — Maeve (Purchased, commercial use permitted)
• Tiny Dungeon — Kenney (CC0)
• Light Masks — Kenney (CC0)

UI

• Fantasy UI Borders — Kenney (CC0)

Fonts

• Kenney Fonts (Pixel, Mini Square) — Kenney (CC0)

Audio

• Music Loops — Kenney (CC0)
• Minifantasy — Dungeon SFX — Krishna Palacio (CC0)
• Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 — Kenney (CC0)