You are a little stick creature in a jungle trying to help the forest and make friends along the way.

Your power is connection. You can bond with different forest buddies to borrow their abilities — connect with a Flower to jump higher, or a Rock to absolutely bonk enemies into the ground. Every friend changes how you move through the world and helps you reach new places.

This game was made for the GDTV Game Jam 2026 with the theme “Connection.” It started as a mini-Metroid Vania… then slowly became way more linear than planned. But honestly? It ended up being really fun, weird, and full of charm, so I rolled with it.

There are 3 biomes to explore, 

5 forest friends to connect with,

one very angry rhino boss standing between you and saving the forest.

 Chunky pixel art, fun music, silly sound effects.

Controls

  • A / D — Move
  • Shift — Sprint
  • Left Click — Use your top connection ability
  • Right Click — Use your bottom connection ability

Make friends. Borrow powers. Save the forest. Bonk monsters.


Update 1:

  • Bug Fixes: Fixed SFX not triggering, 
  • Fixed Music Not triggering, 
  • Fixed Double Music Playback and incorrect transitions,
  • Fixed Eon and Shythers Descriptions.
Updated 2 days ago
Published 4 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
AuthorDiv Sharp
GenrePlatformer, Adventure
Made withUnity
Tags2D, Metroidvania, Short
AI DisclosureAI Assisted, Code

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RootBound-Windows.zip 52 MB

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