What this site is
GRAIN ROT Tips is an unofficial fan guide. It is not affiliated with Beck & Branch Games or Neem Interactive, and nothing here is official.
What it actually is: a compilation of developer patch notes, official Steam material, and player reports — each one cited, so you can check any claim yourself instead of trusting us.
How a page gets made
The process is deliberately narrow:
- Find the question people are actually asking. Every page targets one real search, not a topic we felt like writing about
- Go find primary sources — the Steam store page, the official news feed, Steam discussion threads, Steam community guides, the game's subreddit
- Cross-check. Where two independent sources agree, we say so. Where they contradict each other, we show the contradiction instead of picking the more convenient side
- Write only what the sources support
- List the sources on the page, with a "last verified" date
The rule that shapes everything else
If we cannot source it, we do not publish it.
This is enforced structurally rather than by good intentions: every page carries a list of source URLs in its metadata, and a page without one renders a visible "no verified sources" warning instead of quietly looking finished.
That rule has real costs. Five topics people search for sat unpublished on this site for days because we could not find a primary source for them. They only went live once the sources turned up — in the Steam guides section and the Steam news feed, which we had missed the first time round.
What you will not find here
- Invented numbers. If nobody has published a weapon's damage value, we say nobody has published it. We will not fill the gap with a plausible-looking table
- Tier lists. Ranking things is a judgement call, and we have no source to attribute a judgement to
- Silent guesses. Where we reason from evidence rather than cite it, the page says so in those words
- A complete anything. Most pages end with a "What is not confirmed" section. That section is the honest part
Why every page shows a date
GRAIN ROT shipped seven patches in its first five days, and the developers publish a monthly roadmap. Guides for this game go stale unusually fast — a balcony trick written on 9 August was invalidated by a patch on the 10th.
So each page shows when its facts were last verified, and where a patch has changed something, the page says which patch and quotes it. The full changelog is on the updates page.
If the date at the top of a page is old, treat the page as old. That is what the date is for.
Who writes it
One person, compiling and cross-checking public sources. This is not a play journal — the value here is not "I beat the game and here is my opinion", it is that every factual claim on the site can be traced back to a specific thread, guide or patch note in one click.
Where a claim comes from a single player's report rather than something official, the page says that too, because the difference matters.
Corrections
Pages here are wrong sometimes. The sources are public and often incomplete, patches move faster than we do, and some of what we publish is one player's report that nobody has reproduced.
If a page contradicts what you see in your own game, the page is more likely to be the problem than your game. Several pages say outright what evidence would change them — for example, how many players is still missing the one screenshot that would settle the question.