Background
About This Game

Release Date: Nov 1, 2024 1.6K Players*

A sequel to the legendary Japanese free game "Elona," which has inspired countless tales and adventurers who never returned. While retaining the traditional roguelike gameplay, Elin introduces crafting, survival elements, and base building/management, creating an even more open and chaotic experience.

Live freely as an adventurer with your companions and pets. The marks you leave and the scars you inflict upon this world are entirely up to you.

Key Features:

  • A sandbox, open-world RPG based on roguelike gameplay.
  • Live your life, survive, craft, build and manage bases and towns, enjoy housing, fishing, theft, music, farming, livestock breeding, childbirth, setting up shops, tourism, and much more.
  • A seamless blend of endless randomly generated content and carefully crafted fixed content faithful to the world setting.
  • A continuously expanding world and gameplay. Updates will continue even after the early access.
  • The prologue to an epic story revolving around humans and the Elea.

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How To Play Elin on macOS

Playable

Great news, Elin can be played on macOS using any of the methods below:

  1. Parallels is virtual machine software that lets you run Windows on macOS. You can play Elin using Parallels with a Windows guest operating system.

See game reports below for details.

Game Reports

See how well this game plays on macOS.

Elin is not natively supported on macOS. See below for ways you can play it that have been tested.

Playable
2 Game Reports
Perfect
50%
Excellent
0%
Good
0%
Poor
0%
Broken
50%

MacGamer

Perfect 1440p < 1 Hour Played 50 FPS Demo

  • Hardware

    Mac mini M4

    Tahoe, 24GB Memory

    10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU

  • Method

    Parallels (Windows)

    v26.1.1

  • Launcher Steam

Additional Information

If textures are missing, as they were for me, do the following:

1. Open the virtual machine configuration.
2. Navigate to Hardware > Boot Order > Advanced Settings > Boot flags.
3. Paste the following line into the Boot flags field: video.untrimmed_dynamic_cbuffers=1

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MacGamer

Broken Demo

  • Hardware

    Mac mini M4

    Tahoe, 24GB Memory

    10-Core CPU, 10-Core GPU

  • Method

    v26.0.0 Preview

  • Launcher Steam

Additional Information

When starting a new game, once it's daylight a dialog opens and then the game no longer accepts any input.

I was also unable to load my saved game (auto-saved game). The load button does nothing when clicked.

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