Dinkum
BANGER · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99. Typically $15.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.64/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 29,255
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 31.3h
- To 100%
- 120.3h 3.8x the story
- Achievements
- 25
Price and sales
- Sales
- 31 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $13.99 December 2023
- Sale every
- 44d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 844 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
29% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 31 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Littlewood ($14.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival ($19.99, scores 43).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $25.39.
More about Dinkum
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,071 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 1,306 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 31.3 hours; clearing it takes 120, which is 3.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 23 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I am in my 70's and have MS. I can't explain how much joy and peace this game provides now that I have trouble walking. I am so addicted to this game. I'm happy that I discovered this wonderful game.
2 more reviews
This feels like a nice mix between Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. And it's addicting 😊.
This is one of my favourite games because it's relaxing, fun, and I love the Australian inspired design. At the start, it's all about gaining new skills (mining, digging, bug catching, farming, fishing, etc), learning to craft new things, and slowly growing your town with more NPCs who offer different services (inventor, carpenter, banker, hairdresser, etc). Once you've got the hang of the game, you can focus on...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Dinkum is a survival life simulation game set on an island inspired by the rugged Australian outback. Farm, hunt, mine, fish, and forage to gather resources, expand your town, and discover what makes Dinkum so special—either solo or with friends.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1650 4GB / AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dinkum scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1062520/dinkumReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.