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Drill Bird

Sebastian Larsson · Perfect Random · 2025-11-09

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 10, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

98%
positive of 397 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 25 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (77 reviews).
  • · Top 43% of 12,921 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.9k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 397 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.09 at Steam (2026-07-14)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 22 of 23 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
777720252026Week of 2025-11-10: 77 positiveWeek of 2025-11-17: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-11-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-24: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-11-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-08: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-19: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-26: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-02: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-16: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-02: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-16: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-03-23: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-03-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-06: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-13: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-20: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-04: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-25: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-15: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-22: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-06: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-13: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-20: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-27: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-31: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$2.092025-11-102026-07-312025-11-10 — best price $2.482025-11-23 — best price $2.992025-12-18 — best price $2.392026-01-05 — best price $2.992026-01-17 — best price $2.392026-01-31 — best price $2.992026-03-03 — best price $2.362026-03-17 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.332026-03-26 — best price $2.992026-04-17 — best price $2.392026-04-22 — best price $2.992026-05-01 — best price $2.992026-05-11 — best price $2.392026-05-22 — best price $2.992026-05-31 — best price $2.242026-06-14 — best price $2.992026-06-18 — best price $2.392026-06-25 — best price $2.242026-07-09 — best price $2.992026-07-14 — best price $2.092026-07-28 — best price $2.992026-07-31 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
89.8%
earned "Egg"
49.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, French, German, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2936%13

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.