Welcome to Elderfield

Played the demo a little over a year ago, been on my wishlist ever since... bought it the day it came out and I've been loving it ever since.

I adore this game STRONGLY for the theme, music, art, vibe, characters, and story. I will say that comparing it to Stardew and others of a similar "farming" premise cheapens it. They really clearly tried to break the mold of traditional farming type games, and deserve to be known for being Welcome to Elderfield, and *not* for being "the spooky Stardew" game. That said, the games is RIDDLED with problems mechanically. Potent early game difficulty locks even on normal make progression miserable. I got to a point where nearly EVERY quest pointed to the mall, but even optimized and maxed gear (for my level and story point) had most enemies nearly 6 turning me (I didn't let them, but I had to retreat to heal and return to lather-rinse-repeat, essentially a mind-numbing farming process yielding only 8XP per kill. Which is another oddity. Most enemies yield identical XP, which I find frustrating, and a strange choice as it's one of the hallmarks of good RPGs - variety of reward in XP as well as items. Another BAD example of vomit programming, is the Lake Ghost quest. I saw the broadcast, went to investigate. Got the bones part done, and the Watcher NEVER appeared. I stayed at the Lakefront and periodically left and re-entered to refresh the map zone, and nothing. Only one part of that anomaly quest ever appeared (the bones), even on separate days that the anomalous event was shown in the news broadcast. Which I can only assume means that this specific Lake Ghost quest is either incomplete in the programming, or for my file specifically is somehow permanently incompletable. I spent FAR too many hours today loading and reloading, trying different triggers and refreshes and resets to no avail. RNG is absolute peanits, too. While I've had a good amount of good luck in a variety of things, it reminds me of my old high school friend who played VTM with me, and asked to used Blood Points to 'walk across the room". I love this game, but we REALLY do not need a dice roll for the tiniest little thing. (this coming from a D&D/VtM Dungeon Master and Storyteller respectively of over 25 years. BUT, it is what it is. You can save scum, or just reload once in a while if you really need to. I don't mind toooo much, and only reloaded for a bad roll twice. I was following this game for a long time, eagerly awaiting it, and on a core level, I do love this game a lot. I potently love the semi-warm but strongly-hostile relationship the characters have with the setting and various other characters, beings, and events. Again, the art and music especially are INCREDIBLY wonderful, and the writing for making entities strongly inspired by Lovecraft and other cosmic horror - while being uniquely its own setting and figures - really makes me very happy. I just.... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I just wish the programming would get a patch. Because my one big issue is admittedly a HUGE one. Which is the catch-22 blocks (needs items to get past strong enemies early on, but the items are behind said enemies), a grating lack of direction (as someone who adored Morrowind forcing the player to think and remember notes, you'd think I'd like this, but Elderfield sadly doesn't do this well), and then lastly I've just run into an INSANE amount of quests that are not just bugged, but outright broken. The Lake Ghost has my VERY favorite type of "normal" horror - water and ghosts... and it figures that it's the ONE television broadcast anomaly that is broken. I've seen the dev respond here, so if you see this, I want you to know that I VERY genuinely adore this game.... but PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF DAEUS FIX THE SLEW OF QUEST BREAKING BUGS.

只要愿意倾听玩家意见，其实还是不错的游戏

its like stardew, fear and hunger, junji ito, and look outside all came together and had a beautiful baby

I've been playing this since before version 0.7 thanks to Patreon, so my play time on Steam doesn't show my real hours. This is exactly the kind of game that I love to just unwind with; - Stardew-esque calming farming - Romancable skeleton - House decorating - Eldritch horrors beyond understanding - A surprisingly nice battle system - Mining, Foraging, and (ugh..) Fishing - And a fair bit more that I can't remember If you like Stardew, like Lovecraftian stories, and like RPGs in general, then this is very much a worthwhile buy.

Died in my sleep on day 3. 10/10 experience

Si Stardew Valley y Fear and hunger tuvieran relaciones de manera apasionada y, de ese amor, naciera un hijo. Ese hijo sin duda seria este juego. Juegazo