Welcome to Elk Steam
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Welcome to Elk, an adventure game set on a fictional island
stitched together with true stories and tall tales, and inhabited
by the people who lived them.
You play as Frigg, a young carpenter trading their busy life in
the city for an apprenticeship in a small town. When she arrives in
Elk, Frigg worries that the slower pace of life will be boring
(they don’t even have the internet), but quickly discovers nothing
could be further from the truth!
The stories reflect the drama of our lives, on Elk it’s known
that humour, love and death go hand in hand. Life may seem hard
sometimes, but it is always followed by laughter.
On Elk, you will meet weird and wonderful characters – people
whom the world has either ignored or forgotten. Follow their ups
and downs, their odd drinking rituals and their unique ways of
tackling whatever life throws at them.
Help your new friends on Elk through playful mini games. All
games are uniquely tailored to underline the story and the mood of
the game.
We value the importance of storytellers, those who carry the
tales of others and share them. That’s why, in Elk, you will also
meet the living storytellers who inspired us to make this game.
True stories? how to use a true story in an ethical way? This is
how we have dealt with it in Welcome to Elk:
The stories in Welcome to Elk, are told by the people who we know
and/or were there when the events took place. All are told from
memory. The way they are used both on our webpage and in the game
is true to the core story but everything like names, locations and
other details are changed, renamed and often re-framed to protect
the real people behind them, therefore, we call them tall tales.
The stories are not one to one like you would experience in true
crime for example. They are rewritten and combined to one linear
narrative. Characters may play a role in one story where they where
not a part of originally and only us who designed it will ever know
– or come close to the real truth of the stories.
Welcome to Elk might look like a “fun” game but it’s about telling
stories – some are filled with humour others are dark, but they go
hand in hand.