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Dink Smallwood HD – Adventure Game Review
Dink Smallwood HD is a Adventure/Roleplaying game from Robinson Technologies Corporation, first launched in 20th September 2010.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 59+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dink Smallwood HD Stand Out
"Dink Smallwood is a perfect example of the refined basics of classic RPG and adventure games…enjoy the hearty dose of something simple, silly, and special." – Jordan Thomas, Avault.com
"The main hook in this game has to be the sense of humor that permeates it… the difference is that this game is beautiful, gory, and has a wonderful (and twisted) sense of humor.” – T. Byrl Baker, Computer Gaming World
It all began in a world where dragons roamed the land and knights fought with valor and honor.
And then there was Dink. Can a simple pig farmer thrust into an epic journey of magic and adventure save the world?
Dink Smallwood HD is the revamped version of the classic RPG brought to you by the original creators featuring:
• Full in-game DMOD support! 300+ user made quests/stories available
• Supports iOS controllers and keyboards in addition to touch controls!
• Includes the complete re-mastered original CD soundtrack
• Speed up" button to fly through dialog and cutscenes at your own pace
• Automatic full state save/restore whenever you quit/restart the game
• Auto save and Quick save/load feature
• Upgraded and optimized engine, Dink never looked or sounded better
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dink Smallwood HD is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 7th March 2025
Recent improvements include:
WARNING: This update will invalidate any older "Save states". Normal saves will still load fine, so be sure to save at a normal save machine if you have a game in progress.
- Many bugfixes, optimizations and improvements – Dink HD can now handle much larger DMODS due to increased limits of scripts, sequences, animations, tilescreens and soundbanks.
Download & Availability
Dink Smallwood HD is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Dink Smallwood HD on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
The person who developed this game (Seth?) is such a wonderful human. He made a game many years ago called L.O.R.D. (Legend of the Red Dragon). This was a BBS game for modem – if you know what this means, you know! We ran a small BBS and Seth was so great to work with. His story lines and sense of humor are legendary (see what we did there). Thank you for this treasure and the UPDATE! Ill be playing all night and wish this developer would create more content or more games. Thank you – if we can send you money with Venmo or PayPal say the word.
We played this growing up and could never remember the name, but recently found it on Reddit. We played the whole game from our iPhone 15 pro without a problem, the only issue was that we couldnt see how much coin we had due to the white bar thats present at the bottom of the screen in Game Mode. Some of the mods are not iPhone friendly. Pilgrims quest for example (one of the more popular mods), doesnt offer a phone friendly way to type in riddle answers. We plan to try from our MacBook- even though this app is only for iPhone/iPad.
Dink Smallwood (originally called "Nobody Burns our Dog") is a great game from our childhood growing up in the 90s, made by legendary BBS game producer Seth Robinson (creator of Legend of the Red Dragon). Dink is a short game thats relatively easy to play and beat. The port is a little difficult to play on the iPad, but it plays great on M1/M2-equipped Macs. Highly recommend.
Hi Ive never written a review before; we dunno who made this game but its the best game in the iPhone. We dunno how we found it, its fun us funny and mystical somehow with that little gnome wizard guy. We dont play any other game on iPhone ever or even text people, this game gives us a reason to use our phone. :).
Note The Pilgrims Quest D-mod cannot be completed towards the end of the game. The game does not detect the F key on iOS for some reason, and Dink cannot leave the Robot.
We have played this with our dad several times and downloaded it again while quarantining. Still great and love every second of it.
We would love to see this appear on the Nintendo Switch. We mean Id buy it.
Thank you so much Seth for the back port.
Tried every which way we can think of but for whatever reason the gamevice app says its supported. However the Icade function in dink refuses to stay on and detect our remote when attached. Very disappointed as we love dink Smallwood and played it all the time on pc. Would have loved it on our phone. Please developers fix this issue would love to see the compatibility fixed for gamevice.
Like this game very much. Thank you developers.
This game is not perfect, a bit rudimentary and wonky in some ways, but boy is it fun if you can put up with it. We never finished the main quest in the past, so playing all the way through here was extra sweet. And it looks like rtsoft opened the floodgates, and now we have access to many dink mods (user-created worlds) right from the mobile app! If you really fall in love with this game you can even develop your own content and submit it, although we think that would require a PC.
We played Dink And all the mods we could find years ago on the computer. We still have them on a disk. We were really excited when we found it for our iPad! We've played the main game and Agatha's Will. We'll play the rest that are on here and we hope there will be more mods available.
We used to play this game as a kid. And now it has been resurrected as an iPad app. It's amazing. Controls are smooth, no glitches from what we've found. About 8 hours of gameplay if you don't rush. We got about 7 hours out of it.
RPG with icade… We will have to try it now.
Dink Smallwood is easy to control. The graphics and sound are good. The character backgrounds and story are interesting. The humor is great. There are loads of add-ons (Dmods) available on the Dink Network. But, the best part in our opinion, is the ability to develop and publish your own episodes/chapters in the form of self-made Dmods. If you know something about C+ and vb or java scripting then developing for this game will come very easy. First we enjoyed playing the game. Then we tried out the included Dmods. Then we pulled down some more Dmods and enjoyed those. Finally we decided to have a look at doing some of our own customizations and discovered "DinkC", a C+-like language that is very easy to manipulate. We have now completely customized our Dink Smallwood games on our Mac, PC and iPad. Lot's of fun.
Thank you for adding iCade support! First review: Well worth the $3, we've played this game off and on since the 90's it's a great, no problems with the controls so far. The only thing we can think of that would make this game better is if you added support for the iCade.
The controls aren't that good. Your finger blocks active parts of the screen. It's slow & grindy to level up & get money. We're currently stuck in a graphics glitch in Kersin and can't progress or move? A little polishing & balancing would make it a fun game. We're suspect of some of the very positive reviews here.
We guess it doesn't work with the current iOS or something. Crash on startup. $3 down the drain for us.
We remember a long time ago playing the story and also tried to make a dmod. It's a good, fun rpg. We can't stand the controls for some reason though. Not like the old fashioned keystrokes.
This game is not well put together To charge money for it is not cool Spend your money on "The Quest" You can actually navigate in that game And you start off with weapons to fight the monsters instead of having to dodge them. And talking to a person stops combat, so you don't get eaten by worms while you get inane quest help.
We can't get enough of this game, we played it constantly in the car and am playing it right now.
This action pact game is amazing! Well worth the $$.
It is quite humorous, and fun to play.
Fix controls and it's hard for meh to read the words. What do we do after we hav explored the town of Terri's?! Where is the little girl?! Help!!! Stuck.
Great rendition of the original game! We've had some very frustrating issues with the controls, however (iPhone 4, current iOS). It's hard to control Dink, sometimes going to another screen or between objects. Needs a few bug fixes that way. We know it's not easy to do, but hope you will. Thanks.
This is a great throwback, well worth the money, and hours of play.
This app is great there are two great things we see in it there is the awesome old style old action rpg. And then there are d-mods we suggest going to dink network and download the dinky dimension series.
If you played it in the PC you will love it and forget the terrible implementation of the controls. But that is the major problem with all apps and just a touch screen. If you have never played it, look elsewhere for you "tap" type games.
We played this game long time ago on PC and now play it again on iPad. A wonderful game. The bug is fixed. Thanks! We wonder if more add ons can be included or added in the future.
We're having a great time playing this game. However, it's frustrating because occasionally Dink get stuck "in between screens"! We don't know how else to describe it. Sometimes he won't budge and other times we can walk him around but he encounters obstacles obviously from another screen. Weird. We tried turning the game off and returning to it but he always remains stuck. We have to reload a previously saved game which is annoying since the save machines are not so close and we haven't always recently saved. Please fix this.
We played it on the pc and remember how fun it was and it has translated very well onto the iPhone. We can't wait for the d-mods to come available. Thanks for the great port.
This man is garbage. The only thing he has going for him is his faulted one star reviews. Do not buy this man.
Fun game with nice retro style.
This game is incredible. By far the best value on the AppStore for any game.
Yessssssssss!!!! We need more awesome old pc games. Give stonekeep! Someone! Please.
Just as funny and enjoyable as we remember. Great game.
Ha! This was our favorite game ever on pc. It's going to be a pain in the rear to kill Seth without arrow keys we think.
We loved this game on pc as a teen, the iPhone version captures the spirit of the old game but updates everything to feel slick and relevant. Easily recommended.
We were just thinking the the other day that if they ever ported this we would buy it without hesitation – and here it is, and here we are.
You get to punch ducks. What more need be said.
This game is a remake of an old PC RPG game and is a lot of fun to play. There are two different control options(d-pad and touch) to choose from, both work well. The graphics are very pretty and the music fits the game. This is a quality remake that should appeal to anyone who likes RPGs.
If you are into rpg's, this definitely adds something new and fresh to the formula. Combat is very engaging and controls are great. Go buy it.
Dink is a classic rpg that's a lot of fun. The humor is great! Buy this now.
We tried to write like ten reviews, then we remembered writing reviews is just terrible. This game is real, real good. Buy it dummy.
Playing on iPad and we're loving it! Great sense of humor in the game.
This app gives us great memories of college when we first played it. Snarky humor with a Diablo-esque feel. Would give it five stars but the Furball D-mod is extremely buggy. The main game is still exceptional.
Dink Smallwood is the definition of a cult classic RPG. It has been out 13 years and people continue to play it and expand in it using the game's toolkit. The sarcastic humor is still refreshing after all this time. This is one of the better engine ports we have seen, and it translates well to Apple devices. That said, a few minor issues. The navigation is flawed, the directional keypad is just a little too small on the IPhone, and the swipe controls are so sensitive they are useless. Also, one of the great things about this game is the community content. The ability to load and play DMods would be very much appreciated.
We don't remember Dink being so slow? Leveling is nothing short of tedious. You begin almost powerless and die if a beetle sneezes in you general direction, and finding money to buy the one and only Long Sword is absurdly difficult. That is if you don't buy anything to heal you. There are very few quests, and we are currently running in circles grinding away killing bugs. The save portals are few and far between and the Quick Save function serves no purpose at all. It saves nothing. Normally a game this flawed would deserve no more than 2 stars, but we gave 4 because it's a classic. But somehow the developers failed to hit the target by a great margin. We hope they will update Dink soon with some fixes that will make this more than a nostalgic novelty, and an actually fun, playable game.
We were deeply annoyed to discover that when you die you can't go back to the latest autosave but instead have to go back to the last manual save point, which for us was two days ago. We're just not sure we want to go back and do that stuff again. We can't say we much enjoyed the humor either. If childish awkwardness and mildly graphic wife beating are your cup of tea, you might like this. For us we found the clumsy attempts at humor, especially with regards to women, off-putting. The rivalry with the other village oaf was amusing, though.
Navigation is awful. Graphics not bad but the screen moves is blocks of territory when you reach the edge and it's really annoying. Got bored and stuck after 20 minutes. Spend another week of dev. Making this fow better and you'll have a good game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.08
- Size: 160.47 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Developer: Robinson Technologies Corporation
Last updated: 7th March 2025 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: Robinson Technologies Corporation