Elin
Open-world roguelike RPG with crafting, survival, and town building
Lafrontier · Released Nov 1, 2024 · Early Access
IndieRPGSimulationStrategyEarly Access
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 93% of 9,216
- Recent reviews
- Overwhelmingly Positive
- 95% of 115 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 1,368
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 4 weeks ago
- Aug 23, 2026
Free demo available, 26 playing it now: get the demo.
What is Elin?
A single-player, open-world sandbox RPG that combines traditional roguelike dungeon crawling with survival, crafting, farming, and base and town management. You explore, gather resources, build settlements, recruit companions and pets, and pursue a story involving humans and the Elea.
For you if...
- +you enjoy open-ended sandboxes with many overlapping activities
- +you want town building alongside exploration and dungeon crawling
- +you enjoy learning dense systems over many hours
Not for you if...
- −you dislike detailed crafting and town management
- −you prefer simple systems with clear early guidance
- −you want a finished, balanced late-game progression
What players say
93% of 9,216 reviews are positive · 95% of 115 in the last 30 days
Players praise the range of activities, unpredictable situations, and long-term discovery. Common complaints say crafting and town building feel mandatory and grindy, while progression systems are poorly explained, shallow, or unbalanced. Several players also object to sexualized content involving childlike characters.
Screenshots and trailer
Elin system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- windows 8
- Processor
- Pentium Core i-5
- Graphics
- Intel HD Graphics 615
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 2 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
Recommended
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 34
- Steam features
- Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- The native resolution is not the default one
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Tags
- Early Access
- Character Customization
- Open World
- Roguelike
- RPG
- Pixel Graphics
- JRPG
- Traditional Roguelike
- Sandbox
- Singleplayer
- Dungeon Crawler
- Exploration
- 2D
- Nonlinear
- Difficult
- Procedural Generation
Recent updates
- Aug 23, 2026 · Update 23.338 Stable
- Jul 2, 2026 · Update 23.325 Stable
- May 18, 2026 · Update 23.307 Stable
- Apr 11, 2026 · Update 23.295 Stable
- Mar 20, 2026 · Update 23.287 Stable
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