Welcome to Elderfield Looks Like Stardew Valley Went Very, Very Wrong

Welcome to Elderfield is the kind of game that will make you question many things. First off, why does this cosy little farming game have eyeballs growing in the dirt? That’s the twist. The title smartly flips the wholesome farming sim into a cosmic horror title.

UK publisher Kwalee and solo developer Chris Cote have revealed the release date for Welcome to Elderfield. It’s coming to PC via Steam on September 10th, 2026. It’s Cote’s debut game, and it has a hand-drawn, horror manga-inspired art style paired with a dark lo-fi soundtrack.

Yeah. I’m interested

Welcome to Elderfield is like Stardew Valley and Harvest Island, but also a Lovecraftian nightmare watching you from the woods. Basically, Elderfield is a place where abnormal is just normal. The townsfolk are strange, eldritch beings are watching you, and even the local news seems to get progressively weirder.

You can farm, fish, cook, mine, forage, decorate your home, customise your character, investigate mysteries, befriend the locals and even romance or marry one of them. For farming, you can grow normal crops like corn and pumpkins, but you can also grow teeth and eyeballs. You also get weird otherworldly livestock to manage and unruly tentacles trying to grow across your land.

There’s a proper turn-based RPG combat system in Welcome to Elderfield. You can use resources, strategic buffs and different equipment against ancient Lovecraftian horrors. You can choose how much suffering you actually want, too.

If you want the harder experience, though, the Old Gods are waiting. It revolves around a loop of dying, learning, farming and foraging, then doing it all over again. The game has relationships alongside fishing and all the usual life-sim distractions.

A Welcome to Elderfield demo is available on Steam

The demo is roughly one-sixth of the full game. You can explore one area of the town, visit the farm and ranch, check out several smaller locations and enter the first dungeon, which is the local mall. Things that aren’t included in the demo are Old God alignment and calendar-based events.

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