Dinkum

Played it again four years later and I'm surprised there's still so many Quality of Life issues. So many unnecessary dialog steps for completing basic tasks. Tracking resources for a deed doesn't consider resources already submitted. Almost any interaction with the world requires you to step into the inventory and micromanage your hotbar. It's like it took all the worst UX of Animal Crossing and turned it into a baffling design philosophy.

Forced motion blur :( I swear this wasn't an issue until recently and it's terrible for people with motion sickness.

非常不错的游戏但是游玩寿命不长当所有npc入住之后就剩下收集各种东西和建设岛屿了虽然也很好玩但是没有那种前面有一个新奇目标的感觉，希望可以给npc设计一些剧情既然好感度都有了，要求剧情也不过分就像星露谷的人物剧情一样，让这个游戏变得更加温暖，更加有感情

A slow burn animal-crossing-esque simulation game, that does some things better, but other things worse. ++ You can skip to the next day, it's not real-time gated. ++ Australian themed. I didn't realise how few games there are like this until now. ++ Resource gathering gameplay loop is enjoyable. Lots of different tools and activities you can do. -- Item durability is very fragile. Your hard earned items will break very quickly, and you're back to square one, gathering resources to craft them again. -- There's hunting in this game, but the animals seem to only drop meat and bones? There's almost no reason to actually do this, as far as I can tell. -- The general vibe is almost… depressing? Like, I catch a bug, and it says "it's red I guess" or "these are everywhere." Hooray. The music is kind of mellow and moody. The island is deserted and barren. Skeletons and hostile wildlife abound. The game starts the story with you escaping a dystopia, but I'm not sure this is much better. -- I'm not really sure what the goal is in the game. It's very directionless. Even the main quest just says "build a house for the shopkeeper", but doesn't fully explain how to do that. Or that while it's outside opening hours, you can't continue the quest. Or what the opening hours are. Or that to create corrugated tin sheets, you need to put raw tin ingots into the wood saw (???). -- You can't craft from storage. You have to have all the items in your inventory to do anything. -- You can't see the value of things until you try to sell them one by one. --- Everything takes forever. You use 1 stamina too much by accident, and you have to stand there for almost 2 minutes, staring at the screen, while your character recovers. No I'm not joking, I tested it with a stopwatch app on my phone. 105 whole seconds soft CC… What is this, DotA 1? If you get impatient and try to play the game, it extends the waiting by another 15 seconds. God help you if you're in combat. It takes an obscene amount of resources to craft anything, resource nodes are scarce, and each node only gives a little bit. They also don't regenerate (at least in my playtime). You have to process each resource one by one, standing in front of the furnace, waiting 60 seconds per ingot, to add the next one. I dunno, I just felt like I spent a lot of time just waiting rather than playing. I create a trap to catch wild animals, but I can't sell them or do anything with them until I unlock hardwood. No idea how to do that, my axe bounces off the trees. In 3 hours, I've accomplished almost nothing. Then, to contrast this, fishing is damn near impossible, giving you only a 200ms reaction window to hook the fish. There's mods that address some of these issues. Craft from storage mod. Value tooltip. Museum tooltip. Easy fishing. Unbreakable tool. Infinite stamina. But this isn't 2011 anymore. You shouldn't have to mod and cheat your game to hell just to enjoy it. I get the feeling this is a really slow grind type of game. Like building up an entire community from nothing, the satisfaction is in the difficulty and frustration itself. But that kind of experience is not for me, personally. I cannot recommend it due to these frustrating issues. Edit: checking the global achievement stats on this game, only 28% of players even got past the very first day, let alone made it very far progression-wise. How on Earth this has such a good review ratio is beyond me.

A perfect blend of Stardew, Animal Crossing, and Minecraft. Multiple ways to achieve similar goals. Forgiving of errors. Cute. Fun fun fun.

Basically Animal Crossing but EXTREMELY BETTER in EVERY way. I love this game.

50 hours into the game and all items not in my pocket disappeared. Reported bug, no response. Asked for refund, can't find any reference to that. Can't play a game where I can't trust that my progress is saved.

If you love a farming game that keeps you looking for new adventures or a game where you can create anything, this game is for you. I love Dinkum because it has so many fun features, easter eggs and a massive community with great players. There're endless possibilities concerning creation and creativity, and I don't have one concern with this game at all. In conclusion, Yes, I do recommend this game to players.