Welcome to Elderfield FAQ

Welcome to Elderfield is a cozy horror farming RPG by Chris Cote, published by Kwalee. You run a farm in a town watched over by eldritch beings: crops, fishing, mining and romance sit on top of a turn-based combat system with element weaknesses. It launches on Steam on September 10, 2026.

Elderfield, with an L. "Welcome to Enderfield" is a common misspelling and it even has its own fan wiki, but the official Steam listing and every developer post use Elderfield.

No. The two share a naming pattern and a small-town-with-something-wrong premise, but Welcome to Night Vale is a podcast and Welcome to Elderfield is an unrelated Steam game by Chris Cote.

Yes, and marriage too. The Steam store page says you can befriend or romance the locals, or even marry one. Four romanceable characters have been named by the developer on record: Sam, Edwin, Blorph and Celeste.

Leeches are fishing bait. They come from a mid die roll (4-5) on a Tier 1 Bait Pack, from foraging in the Mall Mine, and Sam gives you one when she is at the Lakefront. Leeches are the bait Fog Eel takes.

The Elder Gem is Molly's task. Go to the mine in the Mall food court, talk to Mall Rat to open the Sealed Passage, free the lost miner there for a Peculiar Offering, place the offering on the altar by the glowing green rocks, and beat the Gem Golem it summons. Return the gem to Molly.

No. The Steam store page lists Single-player as the only mode. Players have asked for co-op on the Steam forum and nothing has been announced.

The price has not been announced. Asked directly on the Steam forum, the developer said it will be under 20 USD.

The full game is paid, but the demo is free on Steam and the developer confirmed that the demo save carries over automatically to the full game.

The Steam store page carries no AI generated content disclosure. The art is hand-drawn by the developer, who walks through drawing the character portraits and environments in the game's own devlog videos.

The invite is linked from the game's Steam announcements. The developer ran the pre-launch Q&A there between August 24 and August 31, 2026, in a dedicated channel.

It borrows the farm, tools, seasons and heart system, then adds things Stardew does not have: turn-based combat with element weaknesses, die rolls weighted by Luck, and eight Old Gods you swear weekly allegiance to for stat buffs.