Games like Drill Bird
If Drill Bird is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mobius, Super Cucumber and Colored Effects — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Drill Bird: Drill Bird is a cozy-yet-tense digging platformer where every trip underground counts. Play as a bird fallen from the sky, in search for powerful ores to hatch your Egg. Get home before night falls, upgrade abilities, grow stronger, and unfold a sincere bird story about survival, care and purpose.
Players who liked Drill Bird also play
Steam players who put hours into Drill Bird also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Mobius
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Top pick for Drill Bird fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Drill Bird.
If space has no end, where is the exit? Mobius is a gravity-flipping puzzle-platformer set in a looping realm. Cross screen edges to invert gravity and find hidden paths in symmetrical spaces. Solve physical puzzles to reach the mysterious door—what secrets await on the other side?
Super Cucumber
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Second-strongest match for Drill Bird fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
Become Cucumber, an aardvark superhero with a superpowered move-set. Dash, leap, and combo your way through over 100 handcrafted levels, unlock new abilities, uncover hidden secrets, and battle against a crew of strange, mischievous foes.
Colored Effects
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Third-strongest match for Drill Bird fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
Colored Effects is a puzzle platformer game where you use different abilities to advance through levels. Each color grants a unique ability. Switch between the colors and their effects to collect gems, defeat bosses, and solve fun puzzles.
FrogStray
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Ranked #4 for Drill Bird fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
A tough, precise platformer. Guide a lost frog home using charged jumps and wall-kicks through hand-crafted, obstacle-filled levels. A pure challenge of skill.
DIY Dadish
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Ranked #5 for Drill Bird fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
Create your own adventure and share it with the world! Everyone's favorite radish dad is back, but this time the story is up to you! in DIY Dadish gives players the ability to design any Dadish level they can imagine.
Legends Of The Eternal Flame
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Ranked #6 for Drill Bird fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
Embark on a thrilling adventure in this 2D platformer and see if you can brave numerous obstacles in a quest to save the world from eternal darkness.
Sloth Tales
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Ranked #7 for Drill Bird fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
"It's called Sloth Tales and it's about Jimmy's search for his biological father. Quite frankly it's brilliant." – Wordsworth the Panda.
ZJ the Ball
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Ranked #8 for Drill Bird fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Drill Bird.
ZJ the Ball (Level 1) is a short, story driven, 2D side scrolling adventure game.
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Mr. DRILLER DrillLand
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Reviewers of Drill Bird cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Casual with Drill Bird.
The popular action puzzle game “Mr. DRILLER DrillLand” makes its Western debut on Steam! You’re invited to a secret amusement park known as “DrillLand” – 500 meters underground!
SteamWorld Dig
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Reviewers of Drill Bird cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
Metroidvania
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Reviewers of Drill Bird cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
Explore a dark pixel-art metroidvania filled with fast-paced combat, challenging bosses, hidden secrets, and rewarding exploration as you unlock new paths through a mysterious world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Drill Bird at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Drill Bird on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Drill Bird on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill Bird.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Drill Bird on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Drill Bird.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under Drill Bird on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Drill Bird.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Drill Bird on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Drill Bird.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Drill Bird on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
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Priced ~67% under Drill Bird on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Drill Bird.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Drill Bird.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drill Bird.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill Bird.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Drill Bird.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Drill Bird.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drill Bird.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill Bird.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about Drill Bird
- Is Drill Bird verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Drill Bird is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Drill Bird cost?
- Drill Bird is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Drill Bird?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Drill Bird are Mobius, Super Cucumber, Colored Effects.
- Who developed Drill Bird?
- Drill Bird was developed by Sebastian Larsson, Andrea Harty, Hampus Melin and published by Perfect Random, Sebastian Larsson.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Drill Bird.
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