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2025PEGI 7PC, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable92 % positive19.50 €

A cozy life and farming sim set in the Australian outback: build your home, explore forests, deserts and billabongs, look after animals, and enjoy it all with friends in co-op.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Building and crafting
  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Playing together in co-op

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In short: Games like Dinkum

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Dinkum special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Ranchers

96 %Match

2026PC, Steam Deck playable57 % positive24.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Dinkum: a sandbox with your own goals, building and crafting as well as an open world.

A co-op country-life sim set in an open world for up to four players. You raise animals, farm, craft machines and build your dream home, while delving into monster-filled mines, earning villagers' respect and possibly finding love and starting a family.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Sandbox with your own goals

You turn a deserted island into your own paradise while living among charming animal neighbors, catching fish and bugs, crafting and decorating. The game runs on the real-world clock and seasons, so it rewards a calm daily check-in.

Palia

Dense, handcrafted world

Palia is a free-to-play cozy online life sim where you fish, forage, cook, garden and decorate your home in a fantasy village. You build relationships with villagers and can play alongside other people.

Coral Island

Dense, handcrafted world

A warm-hearted farming sim set on a tropical island where you tend crops and animals, build relationships, and restore the coral reefs. Environmental care is woven into the relaxed gameplay loop.

Loftia

Sandbox with your own goals

In Loftia you team up with friends to farm, craft and decorate your way through an open world while working toward a greener future. It is a relaxed co-op sandbox where creativity and shared progress matter more than challenge.

Garden Paws

Open world

A cozy farming life populated by animal characters: you inherit your grandparents' farm, grow crops, raise animals, and venture into dungeons to fight shadow creatures for loot.

BitCraft Online

Sandbox with your own goals

BitCraft Online is a sandbox MMO set in one shared world where players gather, craft, trade and build cities together. Its player-driven economy and relaxed, cooperative focus define the experience.

Pokémon Pokopia

Building and crafting

Playing as a Ditto that copies other Pokémon and their abilities, you craft, build and garden a withered world back into a thriving paradise. A relaxed life-sim and building game in the Pokémon universe that can also be enjoyed with friends.

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