Welcome to Elk
Fair · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.1h 3.5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.84/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 330 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.05 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 45 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Submachine: Legacy ($24.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Old Man's Journey ($9.99, scores 55).
More about Welcome to Elk
82 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 239 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to July 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
61% start to 30% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Welcome to Elk is an unconventional narrative adventure that treats personal stories as its most important form of exploration. Developed by Triple Topping and published by Akupara Games, it takes place on the fictional island of Elk, where an initially cheerful atmosphere gradually gives way to stories involving loss, friendship, questionable decisions, trauma, and the stranger corners of human experience. Instead...
2 more reviews
Welcome to Elk is a fun, quirky story about storytelling and lots of beer drinking (I mean LOTS of beer consumption). The location is set in a fictitious town in Greenland (or, it could be a real place; I'm not sure). Here, you get to meet a whole cast of oddball characters. The stories these characters tell range from humorous to bizarre to sad and dark. And they're all based on stories gathered from people the...
It makes you go "oh, actually games are art". Specifically a queer punk zine kind of art.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Welcome to Elk scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1015940/welcome-to-elkReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.