Root Double: Before Crime * After Days

Root Double: Before Crime * After Days
Windows cover art, featuring (left to right) Natsuhiko, Yuuri, and Watase
Developer(s)Regista, Yeti
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Takumi Nakazawa
Producer(s)Takumi Nakazawa
Artist(s)
  • Mikeou
  • Wadapen
  • Narumi Ōtaka
  • Eco
Writer(s)
  • Souki Tsukishima
  • Tora Tsukishima
  • Moyashi Himukai
Composer(s)Takuma Sato
Platform(s)
Release
June 14, 2012
  • Original version
    Xbox 360
    • JP: June 14, 2012
    Microsoft Windows
    • JP: September 28, 2012
    Xtend Edition
    PlayStation 3
    • JP: October 24, 2013
    PlayStation Vita
    • JP: July 24, 2014
    • NA: March 13, 2018
    • EU: June 19, 2020
    Microsoft Windows
    • WW: April 27, 2016
    Nintendo Switch
    • WW: November 26, 2020
Genre(s)Visual novel
Mode(s)Single-player

Root Double: Before Crime * After Days,[a] stylized as ROOT√DOUBLE, is a visual novel video game developed in a collaboration between Regista and Yeti, and released by Yeti for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows in 2012. An updated version with a new ending, titled Root Double: Before Crime * After Days: Xtend Edition, was released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in 2013 and 2014, and was released in English by Sekai Project for Microsoft Windows in 2016; the PlayStation Vita version was released in North America in 2018 and is planned to be released at a later date in Europe. It was also ported to Nintendo Switch in 2020.

The game is set in 2030 in a combined city and research hub whose residents are unable to interact with the outside world without permission from the local government. After an accident at an institute in the city, one of the game's two protagonists, Watase Kasasagi, is sent in as part of a rescue team; the other, a high school student named Natsuhiko Tenkawa, happens to be in the institute as well at the time of the accident.
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