Developer posts and news about this game.
The demo is out now You can play Under the Elm right now!!! The Download Demo button is on this page, and it lets you spend your first weeks in the valley: you inherit your grandmother's cabin, learn to name what you find, and start working out her recipes with the people who kne
0.5.4 - A Warmer Welcome This update rebuilds the first days in the valley. A playtester (thanks Amanda!) told me in no uncertain terms that the quests could have reached her faster at the beginning, and she was right: most of what the village had to teach you was waiting behind
The story now has an ending Under the Elm's main story now has a proper close! Help every villager with their final request, and the cabin has one last thing waiting for you. I won't say more than that - but I will say it's the part of this game I'm proudest of, and it wrecks me
Until now, the village in Under the Elm was pretty quiet. Most folks stayed indoors through the day, and when you walked into town you'd find maybe a few people standing around. It never felt like a place people actually lived. This update (hopefully) changes that! Villagers have
The alchemy bench used to be a (fairly boring) menu. You'd pick a recipe from a grid, the game would check you had the ingredients, and you'd press Make. It worked, but it meant every remedy was really a shopping list - and knowing what a plant actually does never mattered once y
Identification, rebuilt Identifying used to be one button. You'd bring an unknown mushroom back, press Identify, and the game would tell you what it was. It worked, but it wasn't really foraging - the mushroom in your basket was a lockbox and the button was the key. Worse, the my
Under the Elm now has a Discord and a press kit! The Discord is the studio's home rather than any one game's - small and quiet on purpose. Come tell me what you found in the woods, ask about a mushroom you can't identify, report a bug or just come say hi! The press kit has screen