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Games like Drill Bird
Sebastian Larsson, Andrea Harty · 2025 · Windows
Steam: 96 % positive of 392 reviews, as of Oct 28
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.
24 games that play like Drill Bird and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Owlone in the Woods, Hollow Knight and ANIMAL WELL.
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By gameplay
Plays like Drill Bird
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Owlone in the Woods
94 % positive of 151
Shared: 2D Platformer · PvE · Controller
Hollow Knight
96 % positive of 507,562
Shared: Exploration · Controller · Platformer
ANIMAL WELL
94 % positive of 23,014
Shared: Exploration · Controller · Platformer
Öoo
98 % positive of 6,776
Shared: Exploration · 2D Platformer · Controller
BirdGut
94 % positive of 5,234
Shared: Platformer · Puzzle-Platformer · Casual
Miner: Dig Deep
90 % positive of 241
Shared: Exploration · 2D Platformer · Platformer
Well Dweller
98 % positive of 4,065
Shared: Exploration · 2D Platformer · Platformer
Toki Tori
88 % positive of 1,635
Shared: Platformer · Puzzle-Platformer · Cute
Chicken Journey
96 % positive of 430
Shared: Exploration · Platformer · Puzzle-Platformer
A Game About Digging A Hole™
89 % positive of 19,037
Shared: Exploration · Casual · Colorful
Diggin
79 % positive of 715
SteamWorld Dig 2
95 % positive of 5,746
Shared: Exploration · 2D Platformer · Controller
More matches
- Creaks94 % positive of 5,394Shared: 2D Platformer · Platformer · Puzzle-Platformer
- Cave Crawler95 % positive of 3,124Shared: 2D Platformer · Controller · Platformer
- Owlboy84 % positive of 3,686Shared: 2D Platformer · Platformer · Puzzle-Platformer
- Toki Tori 2+87 % positive of 755Shared: Exploration · Controller · Platformer
- Cavern of Dreams94 % positive of 1,207Shared: Exploration · Platformer · Action-Adventure
- You Know The Drill91 % positive of 1,122Shared: Strategy · Arcade · Cozy
- Crow Story95 % positive of 368Shared: Controller · Platformer · Cartoony
- Ostrich Island80 % positive of 177Shared: Platformer · Casual
- Dragon's Wake89 % positive of 347Shared: Platformer · Pixel Graphics · Action
- SteamWorld Dig94 % positive of 6,537Shared: Exploration · Controller · Platformer
- Cave Story+92 % positive of 5,268Shared: Exploration · Platformer · Pixel Graphics
- Deep the Game76 % positive of 946Shared: 2D Platformer · Platformer · Pixel Graphics
By look
Looks like Drill Bird
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Celeste
96 % positive of 133,884
Enter the Gungeon
95 % positive of 79,642
Monster Sanctuary
90 % positive of 10,454
Caveblazers
85 % positive of 3,436
Lone Fungus
85 % positive of 755
Out There Somewhere
91 % positive of 6,157
Reventure
95 % positive of 8,469
Aground
92 % positive of 1,837
The Void Rains Upon Her Heart
98 % positive of 1,674
Risk of Rain Returns
89 % positive of 24,859
Dome Keeper
91 % positive of 19,273
Loot Loop
92 % positive of 1,814
More matches
- Risk of Rain (2013)93 % positive of 20,787
- Crypt of the NecroDancer94 % positive of 23,639
- Deepest Sword86 % positive of 10,951
- Vagante89 % positive of 4,128
- bit Dungeon II81 % positive of 1,403
- TowerFall Ascension94 % positive of 2,958
- Archvale88 % positive of 2,062
- Splodey91 % positive of 224
- TowerClimb88 % positive of 316
- Robot Wants It All88 % positive of 179
- Haiku, the Robot90 % positive of 2,593
- Dunjungle95 % positive of 695
At a glance
What games like Drill Bird have in common
- The tags they share most often with Drill Bird: Platformer (18 of 24), Exploration (12) and 2D Platformer (9).
- They came out between 2010 and 2026, 3 of them after Drill Bird (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Öoo (98 % positive of 6,776).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.