Welcome To Elderfield Holds An 86 Metascore After Ten Overseas Reviews
The reviews cluster around the same tension: a farming sim that borrows horror's imagery but keeps the cozy loop intact, which is why the scores land high even from outlets that disagree on how well the two halves fit.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Welcome to Elderfield, a horror RPG released for PC via Steam on September 10, 2026, holds a Metascore of 86 from 10 overseas reviews, according to Game Spark. Reviewers point to the mix of horror and cozy gameplay, the gloomy art, and the farming and town systems. Chris Cote is credited with combining humor, horror, and comfort. The game does not support Japanese as of the time of writing.
Welcome to Elderfield sells itself as a relaxing horror RPG, and the overseas reviews collected on Metacritic largely accept that framing. The town, the farm, and the Old Gods sit in the same loop, and the praise lands on how the two halves hold together rather than on either one alone.
The caveats are about tone, not systems. Reviewers single out the gloomy art and the Junji Ito influence in the enemy designs, and one notes the town's supernatural density reads differently from Ito's own work because the despair never fully arrives. The game is out now on PC via Steam, with no Japanese support at the time of writing.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.