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Welcome to Elderfield
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Reach the ending 1% of players who started
Started playing 89% of owners
Steam reviews 84% positive of 2,723
What the data shows
- 79% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 10+ hours (80%).
- The opening is criticised less than in 76% of games we track.
- 1% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Snooping Around” (Slay the Hall Monitor): only 45% of starters get there.
- 89% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 2,757 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 30.4h for positive, 38.7h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (89.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Snooping Around Slay the Hall Monitor Most players quit here 45% −55
- Ultimate Shopper Slay the Mall Administrator 40% −5
- Mycelicide Slay the Ancient Mushroom 21% −19
- All Bark, but No Bite Slay the Ancient Tree 16% −6
- As Above Slay the Gravemoss Colony 11% −4
- So Below Slay the Soul of the Catacombs 6% −6
- Deep and Damp Slay the Emissary of Daeus 2% −4
- Deep and Dark Slay the Emissary of Delvek 2%
- Deep and Dead Slay the Emissary Kaal 1%
- Savior of Elderfield Slay the Emissary of Xxarteck 1%
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (51)
story milestone ending side
- A New Beginning Step outside your home 100%
- Welcome to Elderfield Die 68%
- Farming Sim Harvest your first crop 64%
- Sickly Have 5 different curses at once 58%
- Jacked Have 5 different blessings at once 55%
- Pocket Money Earn 1,000 total gold 50%
- Snooping Around Slay the Hall Monitor 45%
- Curious Align yourself to an Old God 41%
- Ultimate Shopper Slay the Mall Administrator 40%
- Groundhog Day Die 10 times 33%
- Green Thumb Harvest 100 crops 30%
- Doing Well Earn 10,000 total gold 24%
- Mycelicide Slay the Ancient Mushroom 21%
- Why, That Little... Get a bad result from drinking Abby's lemonade 17%
- All Bark, but No Bite Slay the Ancient Tree 16%
- Animal Tamer Harvest 50 animal products 14%
- As Above Slay the Gravemoss Colony 11%
- Hooligan Enter Elderfield High 10%
- Business Person Earn 100,000 total gold 7.5%
- Green Hand Harvest 1,000 crops 5.9%
- So Below Slay the Soul of the Catacombs 5.5%
- Re-Gifter Give a Farm Visitor item right back to them 5.0%
- Zealot Align yourself to each Old God at least once 4.0%
- Animal Herder Harvest 500 animal products 3.8%
- Expert Angler Win the Fishing Contest 3.4%
- Art Restoration Complete one full room of the Art Gallery 3.1%
- Friendly Reach 10 hearts with one character 2.8%
- Ghost Hunter Complete all 3 school scenarios in Elderfield High 2.5%
- God Mode Have 5 stacks of 5 different blessings at once 2.2%
- Deep and Damp Slay the Emissary of Daeus 1.7%
- Tis But a Flesh Wound Die 100 times 1.7%
- Deep and Dark Slay the Emissary of Delvek 1.5%
- Filthy Rich Earn 1,000,000 total gold 1.3%
- Good Source of Iron Eat a sandwich filled with nails 1.3%
- In This Together Get married 1.2%
- Deep and Dead Slay the Emissary Kaal 1.0%
- Haggard Have 5 Stacks of 5 different curses at once 0.8%
- Supporting Arts & Culture Complete the Art Gallery 0.7%
- Savior of Elderfield Slay the Emissary of Xxarteck 0.7%
- Cozy Tower Complete "The Stone Tower" task on Cozy Game difficulty or higher 0.6%
- Easy Tower Complete "The Stone Tower" task on Easy difficulty or higher 0.4%
- Normal Tower Complete "The Stone Tower" task on Normal difficulty or higher 0.3%
- Socialite Reach 10 hearts with all characters 0.2%
- Animal Fanatic Harvest 5,000 animal products 0.1%
- Bad Friend Decrease the friendship of the same character 10 times 0.1%
- Borrowed Time Survive 5 deaths by using Rings of Immortality 0.1%
- Green Soul Harvest 10,000 crops 0.1%
- Oblivious Decrease friendship 50 times in total 0.1%
- Custom Tower Complete "The Stone Tower" task on Custom difficulty 0.1%
- Hard Tower Complete "The Stone Tower" task on Hard difficulty or higher 0.1%
- Nightmare Tower Complete "The Stone Tower" task on Nightmare difficulty 0.1%
Steam page Updated: 2026-11-01.