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 ...

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 ...

Tabletop game enthusiasts are drooling over Root, a soon-to-be released board game that pits four different factions with wildly different goals in a Redwall-esque forest setting. The new board ...