Games like You Know The Drill
If You Know The Drill is your kind of game, the closest matches are Yukinite Depths, Drillbound and You Can't Drink Gold — 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 You Know The Drill: You Know The Drill is a relaxing incremental mining game about digging underground to harvest ores. Collect resources and use them to upgrade your drill and go even deeper!
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Steam players who put hours into You Know The Drill 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.
Yukinite Depths
WHY THIS
Top pick for You Know The Drill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
Send a team of autonomous goblin miners deep underground in search of the legendary Yukinite crystal in this relaxing pixel-art incremental strategy game with idle elements. Discover rare resources, unlock powerful upgrades, expand your mine, and face whatever is waiting below.
Drillbound
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for You Know The Drill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
Drillbound is a short incremental game about mining your way to the planet’s core. Crush layers of rock, gather resources, upgrade your drill, and unlock powerful machines as you descend into the depths.
You Can't Drink Gold
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for You Know The Drill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with You Know The Drill.
Dig deep, unearth treasures, and survive the thirst. An active incremental mining roguelite. Upgrade your gear, push deeper, and pay the water bill, because you can't drink gold.
Dig Dan Dig!
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Ranked #4 for You Know The Drill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with You Know The Drill.
Dig for resources and trade them for powerful biological upgrades in this incremental mining adventure. Transform yourself beyond human limits to escape the underground!
One More Floor
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Ranked #5 for You Know The Drill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
One More Floor is a short incremental game. Ride an elevator into the mines, hit the targets to multiply your coins each floor, and cash out before you die. Unlock new mines, collect rare gems, and buy permanent prestige upgrades.
Click & Mine
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Ranked #6 for You Know The Drill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
Click & Mine is a relaxing incremental mining game. Mine various resources and use them to buy upgrades, allowing you to descend deeper and deeper while unlocking new biomes, ores and skills.
Gridkeeper
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Ranked #7 for You Know The Drill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
Gridkeeper is an incremental game about managing "Grids" and using their power to run MineBots, research tech, and grow your mining empire by getting better Grids.
Dwarf Eats Mountain
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Ranked #8 for You Know The Drill fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
Dwarves hunger for gold, and no mountain shall stand in their way! Mine riches, unearth artifacts, and upgrade your dwarves to devour ever-bigger peaks in this whimsical incremental game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below You Know The Drill at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under You Know The Drill on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You Know The Drill.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~50% under You Know The Drill on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under You Know The Drill on Steam right now. Shares Indie with You Know The Drill.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under You Know The Drill on Steam right now. Shares Casual with You Know The Drill.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under You Know The Drill on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and Casual with You Know The Drill.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~75% under You Know The Drill on Steam right now. Shares Casual with You Know The Drill.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under You Know The Drill on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with You Know The Drill.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under You Know The Drill on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with You Know The Drill.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
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?
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 Casual with You Know The Drill.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with You Know The Drill.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with You Know The Drill.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with You Know The Drill.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Frequently asked about You Know The Drill
- Is You Know The Drill verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — You Know The Drill 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 You Know The Drill cost?
- You Know The Drill is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to You Know The Drill?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside You Know The Drill are Yukinite Depths, Drillbound, You Can't Drink Gold.
- Who developed You Know The Drill?
- You Know The Drill was developed by ludokai and published by Catoptric Games.
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 You Know The Drill.
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