Elin

I want to love Elin, but right now it's got some real progression problems. It markets itself as this open sandbox, but the early game is a bottleneck in disguise. If you're not fishing for cash and min-maxing food slices for stat gains, you're going nowhere. Most of the "freedom" you get early on is just a time sink — explore too much without a plan and you're wasting resources for basically nothing. The onboarding doesn't help. The tutorial is a slog of mandatory reading, not an actual guide, and you're stuck with it before you can do anything else. Once you're out in the world, hunger drains fast and difficulty spikes hit hard, so exploring feels risky instead of fun. Even building up a town is a letdown — most jobs are useless, and Gold Bars hit diminishing returns so fast your economy craters. Crafting is the real dealbreaker though. You're stuck making starter-tier gear forever, which makes mining pointless and pushes you toward dungeon RNG or vendor shopping instead. So much of the game just isn't fleshed out or doesn't math out, and you end up needing outside guides to make sense of it — except even those aren't great. Elin has real potential, but as it stands, it's way too easy to get stuck in a grind where most of your choices just don't matter.

It's really good. Great even. As good as your creativity wants it to be. The "roguelike" tag is a bit misleading, as the only element of it are the dungeons that are indeed structured like a traditional roguelike. Realistically, it's an RPG sandbox and kind of a colony sim? Getting that out of the way, it's more than clear the amount of love the developer has put onto his product. Don't let the "dated" visuals affect your decision to purchase this one, they are an aquired taste and the rest is well worth it. Seriously, you can do anything here, and it's being constantly updated with more content of all kinds. You can work primarily as a farmer and focus on developing a ton of land, you can beekeep, you can focus on combat, you can earn a living by singing or playing instruments, focusing on board quests and muuuuuch more. It really is that deep. My full playtime has been poured into a single character and I cannot begin to think what I can do with time both with my current one and with new ones. My single gripe is the fact that if you're low on creativity, it can feel a tiny bit aimless until you discover something new. So yes, I do recommend it and strongly believe what the dev has done is insane and deservers more recognition.

【300時間プレイしての結論：苦行と作業のループ】 いつか面白くなると信じて300時間プレイしましたが、結局最後まで「楽しい」と思える瞬間がありませんでした。 不満に感じた点： 常に付きまとう生活の困窮： 稼ぎが少ない序盤から容赦なく納税を強制され、資産が溜まりません。 厳しすぎるデスペナルティ： 死ぬとさらに弱体化し、それを取り戻すためにまた長い時間を浪費します。 徹底した足止め仕様： 何をするにも膨大な作業時間がかかり、ゲームとしてのテンポが悪く退屈さを助長しています。 MODについて： コンテンツ自体は非常に豊富で、そこは唯一の評価点です。しかし、これらゲームの不便さをMODで快適にしようとすると、今度はロード時間が劇的に長くなるというジレンマに陥ります。 自由な冒険を期待すると、ただ作業に追われるだけの時間に疲弊することになります。万人にはおすすめできません。

Collected an egg from a goat. Roasted the flesh of a bandit for dinner. Paid my taxes. Lost all my copper coins to a gatcha machine. Stole someone's tv with funiture tickets. Pissed in a toilet still on display at the funiture store. Went to the hotsprings afterwards pixel ass naked. This is what gaming was meant to be. 10/10

我只能这么说，我从未如此后悔过购买这样一款游戏，它不是那种一般的不好玩，我能理解这款游戏或许存在那种觉得有趣的玩家群体，但是入手门槛也太高了吧我的天，如果一款游戏需要我主动寻找才有可能找到乐趣，无论好不好玩，总之，不适合我

I really hope to see a quest board overhaul and other methods for farming plat. The quest boards are currently very boring and include many item delivery and escort requests which no one wants to do. Most people just do kill & music quests. And will save scum re-roll to get them because they are less time consuming and more possible to complete vs the rest. KK quest timers mod is also a MUST for music, gathering, ect. I give up on the current vanilla iteration and am moving to modding the quest board till we see some major changes here. I have also broken my oath for no save scumming just because the quest board. And I have seen many streamers get to this point and do the same. I understand we are still in EA, and will edit this post in the future if changes are made.

This is a real RPG, you can do anything you want to in this game. Want to play Stardew Valley? You can do that. Want to be a real-estate mogul? You can do that. Want to be king of the fairies? I'm pretty sure you can do that. Want to lose all your money gambling? If you really want to, you can do that. This starts out as a traditional RPG, but quickly opens up to be a sandbox RPG.

Can't recommend it right now. The game has a pretty massive foundation, but that's largely all it is. A bunch of different features that have almost no depth to them. I largely enjoyed my time with it, but every time I started feeling like I was making real, tangible progress I just came to what was effectively the end of the road of progression and was expected to just play around with the thin list of features that had no depth. Yes, it's early access. But I'm also allowed to not recommend it because I don't feel like it's amazing value right now. Maybe some time in the next couple years it will be INCREDIBLE. Right now it just shows potential, and I don't recommend games for potential alone. If you can enjoy a bare-bones everything and make a functional town, that's great. I'm happy for you. But for me, I need depth, and I don't like when I'm expected to make my own fun past the first ten hours. I made multiple characters, approached things differently, but it always came down to the same thing - crafting tables with a long list of basic materials, no specializing - no progression in making weapons or armor. Features that felt more introductory but didn't reward you for investing. The list of issues I have with this game go on and on. And I'll reiterate. I ENJOYED the game, I WANT to continue playing it. But right now, there just isn't enough depth to justify spending a large amount of time, personally. It's deceptively shallow, and because of that, I don't recommend it (right now.) The dev team seems to have a really hard time focusing on core features, too. They made a big update about how you can now turn yourself into a baby for an NPC and get milk...? Investing that much time and effort into fetish content is just wild. All the marketing for the game is serious, but then there's features like that in the game. It kind of makes sense that there's a wide selection of nothing when they make a big deal about transforming yourself into a baby to be breast-fed.

If you feed people dreamworms, they will fall in love with you Because you are playing a succubus, whenever you woohoo someone, you get stats Because people love you after you feed them dreamworms, they may try to woohoo you while you sleep The entire town loves me When I fall asleep, they all climb in with me I'm leveling up so much