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Welcome to Elk

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2020

Should you play it?

True stories told by real people. Welcome to Elk transforms the weird, wonderful, dark and desperate tales of the road less-traveled into an inventive, biographical adventure. This is an island like no other where drama, trauma, love and laughter hide around every corner.

What works

  • Unique and emotionally impactful storytelling
  • Beautiful hand-drawn art style
  • Engaging and varied minigames
  • Excellent soundtrack and sound design
  • Real-life inspired stories with sensitive treatment

Things to keep in mind

  • Short gameplay length
  • Limited replayability
  • Linear narrative with minimal player agency
  • Some players find pacing slow or emotionally heavy
  • Lack of manual save and chapter select

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Welcome to Elk: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Experimenting. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Progression.

Last update: 24/07/2026