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At first glance,Welcome To Elklooks like the bright and breezy cousin of Die Gute Fabrik’s alien soap operaMutazione. Both feature young women travelling to a new island community for the first time, and while Elk swaps Mutazione’s balmy tropical forests for the frozen hunts of a small Arctic fishing village, each game plays out in a very similar fashion.
You spend a lot of time getting to know the locals, and every now and again you’ll play a small, reasonably inconsequential mini-game to advance the story. But beneath Welcome To Elk’s cheery cartoon exterior lies a tale of surprising depth and human tragedy, as the tales you hear and the people you meet aren’t just made-up creations of developer Triple Topping. They’re all people and events that are based in fact and have happened in real-life, and the resulting story is as affecting as it is disarming.
Welcome To Elk Reveal TrailerWatch on YouTube
Welcome To Elk Reveal Trailer
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Most of the time, though, you’re simply watching the main story unfold as Frigg gets pulled from one distressed townsperson to the next. It’s an emotional two and half-odd hours, and the tensions of this remote community are handled with great care and sensitivity. They are, after all, based on real events, all of which Frigg can read in the mysterious bottles that appear on her desk every morning.
There’s even the odd bit of interview footage with the people behind these stories thrown in there as well, blurring the lines between fiction and reality. Indeed, there are occasional fourth-wall-breaking hints that Frigg is, in fact, inside a video game that crop up every now and again, bringing to mind glimmers of Daniel Mullins’Pony IslandandThe Hex. Elk never goes completely meta like those games, but there’s definitely some shared DNA in there.
