Elin (2017)

Elin (2017) The Farthest Sea
Developer(s)	Lafrontier
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)	December 25, 2017 (alpha)
Genre(s)	Survival Sim, RPG
Mode(s)	Single player
Language(s)	Japanese
Latest version(s)	0.1 (alpha)
Website	http://ylvania.org/en/elin http://ylvania.org/jp/lost

Elin: The Farthest Sea (working title), also known as Elin (2017) and Lost in Ylva, is an upcoming survival RPG by Japanese developer Lafrontier.

The first playable demo was released on Christmas 2017. Since the project is still in alpha stage, all features seen in the demo are bound to change as development progresses.

Currently, both the demo and all available information remain exclusively in Japanese, to the point of the official English page not having any information on the project. However, Lafrontier has confirmed his intentions to have this project translated into English in the future, as well as aim for a Steam release.

For more information and the playable demo, see this thread.

As of 2018, the project has been put on indefinite hiatus.

About

This is a survival role-playing game in the style of Shepherd's Crossing, Rune Factory, and Animal Crossing. You'll become self-sufficient and earn money by going on adventures and selling crops, animals, and produce. With the resources earned you can then grow the island. Combat is not a key feature of the game for now.

When development goals have been met, I intend to continue adding things like towns, quests, battles, as well as implement a party system, forays to the mainland, and add on to game features and the world.

- In-game message by the developer

Background

Prologue text

In a corner of the world, in a faraway land, a grey fog shrouds the Farthest Sea. Here, the boundaries are blurred between people and Gods, the extant and the non-existent, and memory and oblivion. Why did you forget? You promised never to forget. You hear the words echo softly as your consciousness fades. Then depths of the ocean fill with light, and another voice speaks. "My brave child." "My foolish child." "The path to the Promised Land... has opened." "I hope you will at the very least find some peace at the end of your journey."

After committing suicide by jumping into the ocean, the protagonist finds himself saved by a mysterious Goddess (?) and ends up on an island in a place called the Farthest Sea. He must now survive.

Along the way he is given hints by mysterious notes left by a dead person named 'L'.

When the protagonist finds a memory fragment, the protagonist sees a vision of a tower. The Goddess then speaks once again, calling him her 'Exile', and urges the protagonist to recover the rest of his memories that he had once relinquished.

External links

• Official page (Japanese)