Elin
Worth it · Roguelike · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Not discounted in any of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 615, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Successor to the roguelike RPG "Elona". Adventure, survival, crafting, home-building, myths passed down, and stories of humans and Elea spun. What scars will you leave on the land of Ylva?
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
The value story
November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $19.99. In 2 years of price history it has never once been discounted.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Caves of Qud ($29.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats The Doors of Trithius ($14.99, scores 69).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 28 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to September 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, 11 of 138 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 462 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
24% start to <1% 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
Players
1,388 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 11:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Elin scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2135150/elinReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Oct 1.
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