Elin

Elin is an open-world RPG set in Ylva, where you create an adventurer and decide how to live. You can pursue the story of humans and the Elea, take on quests, or set your own goals across a world with established towns and randomly generated dungeons.

Explore dungeons for enemies and loot, and use turn-based combat alongside companions and pets. Your character develops through use of skills and other activities, while food can contribute to raising attributes. You can customize your character and recruit allies to join your party.

Back at your land, gather resources, learn recipes, craft, farm, raise animals, and build or manage a settlement. Residents and businesses can help your land produce income, while taxes create an ongoing financial obligation. The game combines these home-building systems with exploration and adventure.

Players who enjoy Elin often praise the freedom to set their own goals and combine adventuring with farming, crafting, dungeon exploration, and settlement building. Many describe its unpredictable situations and interlocking systems as entertaining and rewarding over long play sessions. Reviews also frequently mention that the game can be hard to understand at first, with substantial grinding and limited story content drawing criticism.