Open now · By request
Haparoot playtest
by KolahStudio
Step into a dream world. Become the sole source of light in the darkness and Explore an authentic handcrafted landscape in third-person. Solve layered environmental puzzles, discuss some familiar issues and uncover secrets shaping the journey toward balance.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Dec 23, 2025
- Planned release
- Q1 2027
- Developer
- KolahStudio
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English, German, Spanish - Latin America
How to join the Haparoot playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the Haparoot playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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About Haparoot
The light you carry is your only guide through shifting shadows. Using keyboard and mouse, you move not just through space but through perception itself — revealing hidden paths, puzzles, and quiet secrets. Along the way, nine kinds of Gems can be found, traded, or crafted. Each alters the way you see, move, or connect with what surrounds you. Yet light alone is not enough — the world speaks through its strange inhabitants, and how you respond shapes what you come to understand. Every conversation, every silence, leaves a trace on the journey toward truth.
- Explore and Illuminate What you carry is not a weapon, but Light. Your light reveals paths, hidden corners, and quiet truths that only appear when you’re willing to pause, shift your perspective, and pay attention.
- Collect, Craft, and Barter What you gather can be crafted into what you need, but sometimes progress demands trade, or even sacrifice. A gem, an object, a fragment of light; what you choose to keep, to give, or to let go of can alter the course of zour journey.
- Choices That Weigh Dialogue with those you meet to know before you decide. Your words, and your silences, decide what you understand and how you move through the Haparoot.
- Puzzles and Exploration Puzzles are invitations and they ask for patience and presence. They connect spaces and ideas, mostly not through tutorials or glowing arrows, but through your own attention.
- A Shifting World Reality bends. Landscapes move. What seems certain dissolves in shadow. Your only compass is light, intuition, and the willingness to walk without knowing where the path leads.
- The 10th Gem Nine Gems can be found — each shaping perception, expanding illumination, or shifting interaction. But beyond them waits the 10th Gem, not of power but of balance. To reach it is not victory — it is recognition.
👁️ Just One Thing 👁️
This Game is not built to Entertain but to be felt
🎭 Style & Atmosphere
HAPAROOT is almost fully grayscale. Light and color are rare, and always meaningful.
There are no tutorials. No exposition dumps. Just a growing sense that something is waiting — if you’re willing to push further into the dark.
🔍 For Players Who Enjoy:
• Quiet, atmospheric exploration
• Asking “why?” even when no one answers
• Puzzle-solving with little handholding
• Symbolic/surreal worlds
• Games like Little Big Adventure 2, The Neverhood
⭐ Wishlist HAPAROOT
Will you adapt to the dark, or chase the light — even when no one else believes it’s real?
🟢 Add to your Wishlist to follow the journey toward release.
From the game's Steam page.
