Dinkum

确实很给力

夯爆了

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Very peaceful and stressful game!!! haha ive put 338 hours at the time of this post so i may like it a little. definitely worth trying if you are creative.

Simple game for those looking for a no time constraint cozy feeling game. NPC's have their own conversations among themselves, various types of food and ways to gather/farm. So fun!

Dinkum is a game that was developed by James Bendon, a solo developer who had developed this game out of early access from July of 2022 to April of 2025. Not only is this an incredibly impressive game made by a singular dev, it really is such a cozy gem of a game that genuinely deserves praise. If you want to, buy this game at it's normal price. It's worth more for a game like this, and its an absolute steal to cost this cheap. If this is what's considered the "Animal crossing rip-off." It's doing better than what New Horizons could! Below will be spoilers of the game! The Good: - THE MUSIC. The music is SO good, it really adds so much to the atmosphere. Each of these songs are such cozy dream that I have most of them on a study playlist! Stinkin' hot, 4 seasons in a day, Crispy Tins (being my favorite), No Dramas just to name a few are some of my favorites that just play in the overworld. - The art direction is incredibly charming, best way I'd describe it is chibi-fication of a lot of characters, yourself and some animals. The voxel style of placing and the square terrain adds such a unique design and flow. A lot of the puns it uses with the fact it's based on the Australian Outback really adds so much immersion. - The game is a slow, long grind. It's a good thing this game is slow, the day system is very interestingly designed. At around 12:00am, you don't get knocked out or forced to go to bed. You get a stamina reduction as a consequence but you can still actively play! Just that the day doesn't continue to the next. I would say it's well-paced, it takes a real world 30 minutes to finish an entire day. I've seen people down here saying it takes "so long" to finish a year in the game at over 50 hours. I played 60 hours and I'm in year 2 spring. The Bad: - RNG on Greenboards feel really bad, lets say you spend an entire ingame day busy digging up trash to try and find more greenboards. Instead, you get maybe 4 from the entire day. With many other resources that are in abundance. It doesn't help that greenboards are required for progression and most items you purchase from Franklin. - NPC Dialogue are overly basic, to the point where I don't see the NPC's as 'people' inhabiting the game, rather just placeholders meant to sell and buy stuff. Some characters have interesting dialogue (Theodore, Franklin, Irwin), but others (Fletch, John, Rayne, clover) are just incredibly boring one page characters that recycle dialogue you've seen after a full ingame season. - Item descriptions are also overly basic. For example. "Iron bar." Description: "Bar of iron." (I laughed when i saw this ingame) The reason why people played games like animal crossing in the past are the puns you'd get from each fish and bug you catch. Which eventually get boring after a while if you've seen then continuously, but i don't see why whenever you want to buy stuff from John, like a furnace, and he's like "Oh yeah, a Furnace, it can melt stuff faster." This is also just an issue with the dialogue as well.