Dinkum vs Coral Island? Which is the better cozy game to buy?

[OmegaXesis]

Hello I'm looking for another farm sim/stardew valley cozy vibe game to buy. Which do you guys recommend?

[dollars202]

If you got friends Dinkum has co-op and coral island does not. Coral island seems to have some woke elements so if you are into that vs dinkum is just plain fun while running around an auzzie type outback.

Edit PS: Also coral island got released 1.0 from early access with some quests still saying W.I.P. (work in progress) guess 1.0 doesn't mean what it used to mean back in the day.

[LyaranTirel]

look... I have both and I played more than 20+ hours on both and here is my opinion:

If you are more of a Animal Crossing kinda person, go Dinkum.
If you are more of a Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley, go Coral Island.

From quality alone boths are good, but Coral island current have a big big problem because someone rushed the release and its still full of bugs. And I mean engine crashing bugs. If that irritates you I'd also not recomend Coral island at the moment

[Greygal]

I recommend My Time at Sandrock (and/or the prior game to Sandrock, My Time at Portia). Dinkum is VERY, VERY similar, although Sandrock has a ton of story missions, like, over 100 hours worth.

[OmegaXesis]

Originally posted by Greygal:

I recommend My Time at Sandrock (and/or the prior game to Sandrock, My Time at Portia). Dinkum is VERY, VERY similar, although Sandrock has a ton of story missions, like, over 100 hours worth.

thank you for bringing that up! I need to look more into Sandrock since it seems like a more "complete" game atm :o

[OmegaXesis]

Originally posted by LyaranTirel:

look... I have both and I played more than 20+ hours on both and here is my opinion:

If you are more of a Animal Crossing kinda person, go Dinkum.
If you are more of a Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley, go Coral Island.

From quality alone boths are good, but Coral island current have a big big problem because someone rushed the release and its still full of bugs. And I mean engine crashing bugs. If that irritates you I'd also not recomend Coral island at the moment

thank you for informing me!

[infektedsyringe]

Both games are great and Coral Island is one of my favorite games of all time. But that being said...

I would go with Dinkum right now because, like LyaranTirel said, Coral Island got rushed out the gate (which considering the dev's previous track record of experimental branching every other update but the final one makes me think that it was a publisher decision).

So yeah, go Dinkum (Or Sandrock, another really great cozy game) at least until Coral Island has it's stuff in order (3 month average update cycle, so about 6 months I would say)

[Azyh]

as far as polished games go, Dinkum is surprisingly stable (have played fully released games less stable then Dinkum)

however, Dinkum is more of a sandbox game with self directed play, while star dew valley is more game directed play. So if you want game directed play then maybe choose something else. Dinkum is light on story, but very unique in other ways.

If you are Australian I recommend playing Dinkum just for the cultural feels. If you love variety of vehicles then you really can't go past Dinkum in that respect too.

I havn't played Coral Island or My Time in Sandrock - because I am so addicted to Dinkum. It completely took over my play time from Minecraft and Star Dew Valley.

[LyaranTirel]

Originally posted by OmegaXesis:

Originally posted by Greygal:

I recommend My Time at Sandrock (and/or the prior game to Sandrock, My Time at Portia). Dinkum is VERY, VERY similar, although Sandrock has a ton of story missions, like, over 100 hours worth.

thank you for bringing that up! I need to look more into Sandrock since it seems like a more "complete" game atm :o

If you are going to the sandrock, because of the price, I'd recomend to look into Portia first. It's like 1/5 the price and same gameplay.

[Mojito]

In Coral Island you have almost no control over the gameworld outside of your plot of land so to me the two games feel so very different. All the town and buildings are already set in that game so you have very little control. I am a builder so I like Dinkum 100x more.

[kentonm]

I've played both games for a lot of hours. Dinkum developer recently added a huge area. Expect additional areas to be added in future. Coral Island we hope adds content. Dinkum developer rocks and supports game.

[Grizzus]

Try Portia (on sale it's cheap) and Sandrock later too. I've played both, but right now I prefer Portia. I don't like Coral Island because the price is too high for me.

[100% Recycled Awesome]

Originally posted by Mojito:

In Coral Island you have almost no control over the gameworld outside of your plot of land so to me the two games feel so very different. All the town and buildings are already set in that game so you have very little control. I am a builder so I like Dinkum 100x more.

So even less control than Stardew?

[Mojito]

Originally posted by 100% Recycled Awesome:

Originally posted by Mojito:

In Coral Island you have almost no control over the gameworld outside of your plot of land so to me the two games feel so very different. All the town and buildings are already set in that game so you have very little control. I am a builder so I like Dinkum 100x more.

So even less control than Stardew?

I would say it is very similar to the level of control of stardew. My only real point is that Dinkum gives the player 100x more control. So I really don't see much in common between these two games at all.

[LyaranTirel]

Originally posted by 100% Recycled Awesome:

Originally posted by Mojito:

In Coral Island you have almost no control over the gameworld outside of your plot of land so to me the two games feel so very different. All the town and buildings are already set in that game so you have very little control. I am a builder so I like Dinkum 100x more.

So even less control than Stardew?

Not really. Its basically the same with you deciding where the barn and coops and stable goes, but having no say on the town itself.

Like I said before. Coral Island = Harvest moon style
Dinkum = Animal Crossing style.

[Tico]

Coral island dont ever worth the buy at currently state, it as at version 0.7 before they labeled it to 1.0, the game have LOTS of bugs, even bugs from 1 year ago, they done that cause holidays, if u want to play a game that is that not finished, and any moment u can get a bug that make ur game not work anymore, go for it.