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Players manage a life simulation island environment in Dinkum, which launched in 2025. The title maintains a 93% positive rating across 15,606 Steam reviews, indicating strong user reception. This indie project functions as a self-published release.
Overview
Dinkum is a 2025 Adventure game developed by James Bendon and published by KRAFTON, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 24,329 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer James Bendon with publisher KRAFTON, Inc. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 876,000 to 2.0 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Dinkum can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
24,329
Positive
92%
Steam appid
1062520
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0876K to 2.0M
units (median: 1.5M)
≈ $10.0M to $23.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dinkum at roughly 876,000 to 2.0 million copies, with a median around 1.5 million, derived from its 24,329 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $16.7M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $12.00Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $12.00 to $19.99, averaging $19.19 across 1 discount window, with a historical low of $12.00 on 2026-04-05.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Open World Survival CraftAgricultureFarming SimLife SimRelaxingCo-opFarmingCraftingSimulationSandboxRPGIndieCasualBuildingOnline Co-OpExplorationAdventureSingleplayerFishingHunting
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dinkum sold?
- indielist estimates Dinkum has sold between 875,844 and 2,043,636 units (median 1,459,740), derived from its 24,329 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dinkum?
- Dinkum was developed by James Bendon and published by KRAFTON, Inc..
- When was Dinkum released?
- Dinkum was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Dinkum have on Steam?
- Dinkum has 24,329 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dinkum sold?
- indielist estimates Dinkum has sold between 875,844 and 2,043,636 units (median 1,459,740), derived from its 24,329 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dinkum?
- Dinkum was developed by James Bendon and published by KRAFTON, Inc..
- When was Dinkum released?
- Dinkum was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Dinkum have on Steam?
- Dinkum has 24,329 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Dinkum can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Satisfactory, Palworld, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, James Bendon's other releases and KRAFTON, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dinkum sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Dinkum page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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