Welcome to Elderfield Reddit: What the Community Says
Welcome to Elderfield on Reddit: the two real subreddits, the recurring quest and performance topics, the community gift guide, and where help arrives.
There are two real subreddits for this game, both active: r/welcometoelderfield (created January 2025, around 436 subscribers) and r/Welcome_to_Elderfield (created May 2026, around 207 subscribers, self-described as the official subreddit). Information is split across both, so search each one before concluding nobody has asked your question.
What people are actually discussing
Sorting the week after launch by topic gives a clear picture:
| Topic | Example threads | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Stuck on quests | “Guess I’m not finishing this tv quest.”, “Museum conundrum”, “Shrine offerings”, “Deep (dark) forest axe?”, “Hans didn’t give me the new task?” | The largest category; usually an unclear trigger condition |
| Resources and systems | “Where to get more worms?”, “Gem question”, “Ladders…” | Gathering, bait, gems and terrain |
| Gifts and relationships | “Gift Guide (All Loved Gifts)” | A community-compiled table of loved gifts; one of the most popular resources |
| Performance and devices | “Having issues with stuttering”, “Stuttering when sprinting on steam deck”, “Controller not working with docked Steam Deck…” | Mostly Steam Deck and controller environments |
| Bugs | “Help Can’t Launch the Game from Steam”, “slow fps, character portraits not loading” | Launch failures and missing portraits |
| Saves | “Will the demo save file transfer over to the main game?” | Demo-to-retail save compatibility |
| Console requests | “Console release?” | Recurring, with no official plan |
Praise and complaints
Praise centres on atmosphere, art and combat depth, matching the press — and the community is unusually willing to compile hard reference material such as gift tables, ritual unlocks and treasure maps.
Complaints are more concrete and more technical: stuttering, Steam Deck controller detection, portraits failing to load, launch failures. Those are bugs rather than design problems. The “stuck” category is usually a matter of understanding, for example treating TV news events as mysteries and then wondering why Akira’s investigation task will not complete.
Where to ask and where to report
- Steam forum: developer chris-cote replies under his own name, and mechanical clarifications, port questions and Patreon details have all been confirmed there. For anything mechanical, this is the highest-quality source.
- Official Discord:
discord.gg/C8ePt4KaTp, useful for immediate help and development updates. - Reddit: best for seeing what players actually get stuck on and the workarounds, keeping in mind that there are two subreddits and the sample is small.
When searching, search the mechanic plus the symptom — mysteries quest not completing, character portraits not loading — rather than the bare game name.
A few representative posts
To make the snapshot concrete, here are post titles and author wording from the week after launch (kept verbatim):
- “Hans didn’t give me the new task?” — unclear quest triggers are the most common confusion.
- “Gift Guide (All Loved Gifts)” — a community-made table of loved gifts for every character, and one of the community’s most popular resources.
- “Guess I’m not finishing this tv quest.” — the TV event variants leave players stuck, and the comments give the exact lakefront ghost steps.
- “Having issues with stuttering” / “slow fps, character portraits not loading” — performance and bug reports.
- “Console release?” — console requests recur, with no official plan to date.
The above is a sample of community posts, not a statistical finding.
Facts checked 2026-09-12. Subscriber counts and post activity change, and community discussion is a sample rather than a survey.