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You Know The Drill

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2026

Should you play it?

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!

What works

  • Addictive and satisfying progression loop
  • Relaxing atmosphere and music
  • Well-balanced upgrade system
  • Polished presentation for a solo dev
  • Good value for price and length

Things to keep in mind

  • Short overall playtime
  • Late-game visual clutter and difficulty seeing drill
  • Rush mode feels like padding and less engaging
  • Limited replayability after completion
  • Some controller and resolution support issues

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Mango's Fisharium

  • Keep on Mining! - Worlds

  • Idle Colony

  • Fracture Field

  • Far Fishing

  • Miner: Dig Deep

More violent

Games that feels like You Know The Drill but with more combat and destruction

  • Pixel Survivors : Roguelike

  • Space Rock Breaker

  • Loot Loop

  • Zero Stress King: Idle Defense

  • Trainatic

  • Astro Prospector

More idle-friendly

Games that feels like You Know The Drill but with a stronger idle, pick-up-and-play feel

  • Idle Cave Miner

  • PegIdle

  • Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends

  • Incredicer

  • PickCrafter

  • Captain Whiskers: Incremental Seas

More creative

Games that feels like You Know The Drill but with more room to create and customize

  • Factory Planner

  • Ballionaire

  • Outhold

  • Agrivore: Incremental Farming

  • Widget Inc.

  • Fill Up The Hole

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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

You Know The Drill: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Story, Violence, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Creativity, Expression, Status.

Last update: 10/08/2026