Welcome to Elk (2020) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Welcome to Elk

Welcome to Elk is a biographical adventure set on an island like no other, where every character you encounter has a story to tell. From the weird and wonderful to the dark and desperate, all the tales told on…

65 17 September 2020 from $5.25

What Welcome to Elk is

Welcome to Elk is an adventure game developed by Triple Topping and released in 2020. It was published by Akupara Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Welcome to Elk is a biographical adventure set on an island like no other, where every character you encounter has a story to tell. From the weird and wonderful to the dark and desperate, all the tales told on Elk are based on true stories of life on the road less traveled.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Welcome to Elk holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

What it costs, and where

The cheapest verified price right now is $5.25 at GOG, 65% below its usual price.

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What it launched against

Welcome to Elk launched on 17 September 2020, within three weeks of Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades and Genshin Impact. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Avengers, Hades, Hades, Genshin Impact.

Official trailer