Hirelings & Landmarks is Coming Soon to Root Digital!

September 25, 2025

Critters of the Woodland, gather ‘round: Hirelings & Landmarks is coming soon to Root Digital!

Hirelings bring a whole new layer of cunning alliances and shifting loyalties to your digital battles. These opportunistic critters — feisty Forest Patrols, raucous Rabbit Scouts, conniving Corvid Spies, and more — join the fray as hirable allies! Additionally, Landmarks make their way to Root Digital, adding new points of interest to the Woodland!

Hired Help

In any game where Hirelings are included, exactly three of them will join your game. They can be added to games of any player count, in either Promoted or Demoted form.

Promoted Hirelings: These Hirelings act as minor factions who can be temporarily swayed to your side, each with their own map presence and unique abilities. This has a real impact on the feel of two-player games, with Hirelings filling out the Woodland with the familiar flavors of your favorite factions. The fewer players you have, the more Promoted Hirelings will join you!
Demoted Hirelings: For each player you add beyond the second, one of the three included Hirelings will join the game in their Demoted form. Demoted Hirelings have less presence on the map (if any at all), and instead typically grant a special passive ability to the player that controls them.

Hirelings pass their services from player to player throughout the game, bringing a whole new layer of dynamic strategy to your games of Root Digital!

13 Hirelings — each with a Promoted and Demoted variant — are joining the fray. The ten factions in Root Digital each have an associated Hireling, along with three neutral Hirelings. A faction cannot be represented by both a Hireling and a player in the same game, so if a player chooses, say, the Lord of the Hundreds as their faction, it means the corresponding Hireling — the Flame Bearers— will be absent from the game. This ensures plenty of variety in the Woodland with every match you play!

Landmarks – Wonders of the Woodland

Landmarks also come to Root Digital in this expansion, bringing new locations to the board, each with unique effects that shake up gameplay with strategic challenges and tactical possibilities. Best of all, they work with each of Root’s maps!

Barter for anything you need at the Black Market!
Benefit from the unity of fox, mouse, and rabbitkind in the fabled Lost City!
Craft a masterwork at the Legendary Forge!
Sit proud upon the grand throne in the Elder Treetop!
Expand your reign by securing control of the mighty Tower!
Travel swiftly across the Woodland by boarding the Ferry!