Games like Drill and Delve
If Drill and Delve is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Totally Legal Archaeology Adventure, Mining My Own Business and No Man's Mines — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its discovering lore through journals, atmospheric and chill. 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 and Delve: You've been trapped in a mine. You'll need to use your tools to dig your way to the exit in a fully destructible 3D voxel terrain. Manage your oxygen and equipment, and uncover the dark mystery buried deep within the mine.
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Steam players who put hours into Drill and Delve 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.
A Totally Legal Archaeology Adventure
WHY THIS
Top pick for Drill and Delve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
An action-adventure digging and exploration game. Your job? Travel across remote islands, dig up ancient artifacts, and curate the most impressive museum the world has ever seen!
Mining My Own Business
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Drill and Delve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
Enslaved you're forced underground to mine to buy your freedom. Manage stamina, weight, and torchlight as you dig for valuable ore. Sell when prices are high, upgrade your gear and shelter. Every swing of your pickaxe gets you closer to freedom. Right?
No Man's Mines
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Drill and Delve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
Dig into fully destructible spherical planets and carve real caves from crust to molten core. Mine rare minerals, refine ore, and upgrade your suit and ship. Travel between worlds and fight pirates in open space. How deep can you go before your oxygen runs out?
Wild Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares inventory management and an atmospheric mood with Drill and Delve.
Ranked #4 for Drill and Delve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Drill and Delve.
Escape to an enchanting, living sandbox surrounded by wildlife and nature.
A Game About Digging A Hole™
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, upgrade system, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Drill and Delve.
Ranked #6 for Drill and Delve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!
Engineer Alpha
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Drill and Delve.
Ranked #7 for Drill and Delve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Drill and Delve.
An open world survival and automation game. Engineer Alpha combines an infinite editable world, building and connecting of automated machinery, and RPG style player progression.
Exo Digger
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Drill and Delve fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
Exo Digger is a relaxing mining simulator set on a distant planet. Dig deep, extract rare minerals, upgrade your equipment, and expand your inventory. Explore the depths, but beware some areas of the mines may be dangerous. Who knows what secrets this planet holds beneath its surface?
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Subnautica
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Drill and Delve.
Reviewers of Drill and Delve cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Starcom: Unknown Space
WHY THIS
Shares procedural exploration and an atmospheric mood with Drill and Delve.
Reviewers of Drill and Delve cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
A Game About Digging A Hole™
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, upgrade system, adventure and an atmospheric mood with Drill and Delve.
Reviewers of Drill and Delve cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Drill and Delve at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Drill and Delve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill and Delve.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Drill and Delve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill and Delve.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Drill and Delve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill and Delve.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Drill and Delve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill and Delve.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Drill and Delve on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Drill and Delve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill and Delve.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Drill and Delve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill and Delve.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Drill and Delve on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Drill and Delve.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Drill and Delve.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drill and Delve.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drill and Delve.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
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.
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drill and Delve.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about Drill and Delve
- Does Drill and Delve work on Steam Deck?
- Drill and Delve is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Drill and Delve cost?
- Drill and Delve is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Drill and Delve?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Drill and Delve are A Totally Legal Archaeology Adventure, Mining My Own Business, No Man's Mines.
- Who developed Drill and Delve?
- Drill and Delve was developed by noOne.
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