It’s a reminder that life is filled with awe and wonder – it’s just on pause right now, or at least playing in slow motion. Playing Welcome To Elk was almost meditative. Which is exactly the game I’ve been looking for this year, a time when COVID has built a wall between me and my friends, my family and anyone and anything else I love. But one that is filled with the very best (and sometimes the very worst) of humanity. The island bully, who despite being drawn in the adorable art style that runs across the game, inspired sheer revulsion in me.Ī brief game. There’s a woman who eats squirrels and has the most tragic past. You’ll meet the guy who is convinced he’s dead and that he and everyone else on the island is a ghost. That might sound intense for a game you can play through in just a few hours – I did it in three – but Welcome To Elk squeezes in revelations throughout every crevice of its snowy landscape. This is a game that runs the gamut of human emotions. Not just stranger, but more beautiful, more frightening, more sad… and so on.
This is an adventure about a character named Frigg, a newcomer to a remote Scandinavian island called Elk. Made by Danish indie developer Triple Topping, the game is unlike anything you’ve played.
Which brings me to my latest discovery, Welcome To Elk. I’ve needed games to show me warmth, maybe even hope. My usual gaming diet of survival horror and FPS hasn’t cut it. I’ve written a lot this year about games that either lift your spirits or take you somewhere else.
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