Welcome to Elderfield Romance Guide and Candidates

Welcome to Elderfield officially includes romance and marriage in the full game. Celeste is confirmed as marriageable, and the developer confirms that Blorph is a genderless, romanceable non-human character. The complete candidate roster, heart thresholds, and final proposal sequence are not sufficiently verified for the launch build.

Official updates were checked on September 29, 2026. The latest documented full-game announcement is v1.0.2a, dated September 23; the separate Demo has a v1.0.0 changelog dated September 8. Older Demo and alpha research below retains its original evidence boundaries. These announcement versions do not guarantee which build is installed on your device. Full-game, Demo, and Patreon changes are kept separate throughout the guide.

Historical Patreon alpha material uses a Ring of Binding for proposals and adds a spouse room plus schedule and dialogue changes after marriage. Steam Demo v0.11.17 provides a Social menu that tracks relationships and learned gift preferences. The menu does not reconstruct gifts given before that update, so older saves can show an incomplete history.

The September 8 Demo v1.0.0 changelog fixes relationship status not updating in the gift menu when an NPC is married. This confirms a display correction in that named build, not a new romance-candidate list. The notice does not identify proposal costs, heart thresholds or which marriage steps are available throughout the free Demo.

Confirmed here means either an official source states the point directly or two independent sources agree on the same observable behavior. It does not mean every related number, location, or unlock condition is known. Exact values stay out of the confirmed section unless the collected material supports them at the same version level.

Build affinity through conversation and gifts while using the Social menu as a record of preferences learned in the current save. Do not assume every friendly NPC is romanceable, and verify the candidate status in the game before spending rare proposal materials. For Celeste or Blorph, separate confirmation that romance exists from unverified claims about exact heart counts or meeting places.

Use the confirmed sequence first and check the in-game wording before committing rare materials or long sessions. Interface labels and broad mechanics are more stable than balance values, rewards, and exact routes during development. A step marked Pending verification (待确认) is a research lead, not a guaranteed instruction for the current build.

The Ring of Binding and spouse-room evidence comes from Patreon alpha v0.6.7 rather than the current free Demo. Claims about nine candidates, gender distribution, ten-heart requirements, one-spouse limits, church timing, or furniture crafting have only one historical source. They remain Pending verification (待确认) until the current release build or official documentation confirms them.

Welcome to Elderfield launched on Steam on September 10, 2026. Its public Demo and older itch or Patreon builds remain separate evidence. A detail can be authentic and still be obsolete or unavailable in another channel. Historical footage is not automatically proof of the released game's balance or unlock requirements.

The full romance list, candidate pronouns beyond what the developer confirmed, dating stages, jealousy rules, breakup or divorce systems, proposal costs, wedding schedule, and Demo availability are unknown. Do not infer romance options from fan art or ordinary dialogue. A post-release candidate table needs direct in-game or official confirmation for every row.

Pending verification (待确认) means the collected sources did not reach the required confidence threshold. It may be supported by one guide, one developer comment, or footage whose build cannot be identified, but it lacks a matching current source. These points are retained because players search for them, while their uncertainty remains visible.