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ELF cover art

ELF

Ocean Software · Ziggurat · 2018-04-13

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: 1991 (Amiga), 1991 (DOS)

The brave elf Cornelius must set out on a quest to save his true love from the clutches of Necrilous the Not Very Nice. Many villainous creatures, devious puzzles, traps, and tricky platforming challenges stand between Cornelius and his beloved, but they will be no match for him and his magic ring!

ELF is an Action and Adventure game released in 2018, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and a Mostly Negative review sentiment (37% of 27 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-01

37%
positive of 27 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)
Elf is an action video game published for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1991 by Ocean Software. A version for MS-DOS was released in 1992.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 67% of 27,682 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120182026Week of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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